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. [6] 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 Spokesperson for Delhi unit of AAP. [7] [8]
On 28 June 2017,Bhardwaj filed a complaint to the Assembly Speaker against Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa for accusing the Delhi Petitions Committee of allegedly blackmailing officials. [9] On 5 October 2024,he and some of his friends were arrested for disorderly behaviour. [10]
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