Saurabh Bharadwaj is an Indian politician from the

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, who represented

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constituency in the

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, who was formerly the Chairman of the Delhi Jal Board and Minister of Health, Urban Development and Water. He is also an Official Spokesperson of the

Early life and education

Bharadwaj was born in New Delhi and completed his schooling in the city. He graduated as a Computer Science engineer from Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering affiliated with

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, formerly Indraprastha University (IP or IPU), is a state university located in Dwarka, Delhi, India. The university is organised around fourteen university schools and three university centers that f ...

in 2003. He has also completed a bachelor's degree in law from

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in 2011. Before entering politics, Bhardwaj worked with Johnson Controls India, his expertise being in microchips and coding. Bhardwaj started his career as a software engineer in Invensys.

Political career

Saurabh Bhardwaj won the Greater Kailash assembly constituency, defeating Ajay Kumar Malhotra, son of the senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and incumbent Leader of Opposition V.K. Malhotra, by 13092 votes in the 2013 Delhi Assembly election. In 2015, the young AAP leader defeated Rakesh Guliya of BJP by 14,583 votes. Bhardwaj was a Cabinet Minister in the Arvind Kejriwal government during the 49-day tenure between 28 December 2013 and 14 February 2014. Bhardwaj shot to fame on 9 May, when he claimed to hack a look-alike machine similar to EVM (Electronic voting machine) allegedly used by the Election Commission. The AAP used the hacking by Bhardwaj to substantiate its claims of EVM tampering during recent elections. The Election Commission later claimed that it cannot take responsibility for any machine that is not under its own security systems and rejected the hacking attempt by Bhardwaj. Saurabh Bhardwaj has been appointed Chief

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for Delhi unit of AAP. On 28 June 2017, Bhardwaj filed a complaint to the Assembly Speaker against

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MLA

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for accusing the Delhi Petitions Committee of allegedly blackmailing officials. On 5 October 2024, he and some of his friends were arrested for disorderly behaviour. https://www.aninews.in/news/national/politics/bus-marshals-protest-in-delhi-police-detain-aap-minister-saurabh-bharadwaj20241005185003/ Bharadwaj lost the

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from

to BJP's

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by a margin of 3,188 votes.

Positions held

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bhardwaj, Saurabh Living people Delhi MLAs 2013–2015 Delhi MLAs 2015–2020 Delhi MLAs 2020–2025 Aam Aadmi Party MLAs from Delhi 1979 births Osmania University alumni