Dilip Pandey


Dilip Pandey is an Indian politician and has represented Timarpur as a Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly from 2020 to 2025. He was the Convenor of the Delhi Unit of Aam Aadmi Party between July 2014 and April 2017.

Career

Pandey left his software job in 2013 to join the AAP.
Prior to this, Pandey worked for the Indian IT Major Tata Consultancy Services as a business consultant until FY 2011 and was posted at their Bangalore office.

Political career

Pandey participated in the Anna Hazare Movement. He is a spokesperson and member of the screening committee of the Aam Aadmi Party. In January 2014, Pandey was appointed secretary for AAP political activities in the national capital.
He took over as the convenor of the Delhi unit in July 2014. Under his co-convenorship, the AAP won 67 out of 70 seats in 2015 Delhi assembly elections. Pandey later submitted his resignation in April 2017 after the AAP failed to get the majority in the 2017 [Municipal Corporation of Delhi election|2017 MCD elections].
He served as the official Spokesperson of the Aam Aadmi Party from 2014 to 2024.
Dilip has been nominated as the Aam Aadmi Party’s in-charge for Delhi's North East Lok Sabha constituency for the 2019 General Elections.
He defeated BJP's Surinder Pal Singh in the 2020 [Delhi Legislative Assembly election] to win the Timarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency).
MLA Dilip Pandey was appointed Aam Aadmi Party's chief whip in the Delhi Assembly in March 2020.