Ajay Agarwal (born 21 May 1965) is a lawyer in the

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and a politician. He was the candidate who represented the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

from Rae Bareli in the

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. During his tenure on the Supreme Court, he filed public interest litigations in several cases including the

Bofors scandal The Bofors scandal was a major weapons-contract political scandal that occurred between India and Sweden during the 1980s and 1990s, initiated by Indian National Congress politicians and implicating the Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, and ...

, the

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, and the fake stamp paper scam run by

Abdul Karim Telgi Abdul Karim Telgi (29 July 1961 – 23 October 2017) was an Indian counterfeiter. He earned money by printing counterfeit stamp paper in India, with the size of the scam estimated to be around . Early life Abdul Karim's mother was Shariefabe ...

. In addition to being a professional advocate, he is also a

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and contested many public interest litigation targeting alleged corruption at the highest level. His PIL in

led to the fall of Mayawati government in

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

in 2003. His another PIL for initiating CBI enquiry in Abdul Karim Telgi fake stamp scam case involving fifty thousand crores scam in 2003 also paid results and besides the supreme court ordered CBI enquiry in this matter, union government had to introduce E-stamping to stop the circulation of fake stamp scam paper. He had filed special leave petition in public interest in Bofors scam before the supreme court of India, when CBI failed to file it, because the permission to file SLP was denied to the CBI by the then UPA government because of the instructions by the UPA chairperson

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. He also filed a criminal writ petition in

Ottavio Quattrocchi Ottavio Quattrocchi (1938 – 13 July 2013) was an Italian businessman who was being sought until early 2009 in India for criminal charges for acting as a conduit for bribes in the Bofors scandal. Quattrocchi's role in this scandal, and his pro ...

case in January 2006 when an additional Solicitor General was sent to

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by the union government to get the accounts of Ottavio Quattrocchi defreezed and Supreme Court had passed status quo of the London accounts. His another PIL in Commonwealth scam and IPL scam also brought positive results. Ajay Agrawal filed public interest litigation before Supreme Court of India for fixing of RT PCR Test cost at Rs 400 per test while in some states the charges are as high as Rs 3600 /- per test. Supreme Court issued notice to the Central Government and state Governments and the price will start slashing down immediately. Now in Delhi, it is charged Rs 400/- per test as was demanded in the petition. In

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BJP has fielded him as its candidate in Rae Bareli to contest against UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi where in he polled 173,721 votes. His Bofors matter which he got listed for final hearing, by mentioning before the Chief Justice of India, in the last week of October, 2014. He is also asked the CBI to open the entire investigation afresh in the light of many evidences which he had with himself.

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