Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal
Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal is an Indian politician from Delhi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the ruling party in the Indian Parliament and the major party in the Legislative Assembly of Delhi. He represented the Rohini constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly from 1993 to 2013. He lost to Rajesh Garg of Aam Aadmi Party in the 2013 Delhi legislative assembly election.
Early life
Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal was born on 4 April 1952 in Naharpur village, Sector–7, Rohini Sub City, Delhi, to Shiv Narain Aggarwal. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Delhi.Political career
Aggarwal is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the ruling party in the Indian Parliament and the major party in the Delhi Vidhan Sabha.He contested the Badli Vidhan Sabha Constituency in three consecutive elections from 1993 to 2003. At the 2008 state assembly election, he contested Rohini Constituency, carved out of Badli as a part of delimitation of legislative assembly constituencies in 2008.
He was elected for the First Legislative Assembly of Delhi in 1993, defeating runner-up Rajesh Yadav of Indian National Congress by a margin of 9,836 votes. In the 1998 state assembly election, his margin of victory decreased more than half to 4,437 votes over runner-up Narain Singh Yadav of Congress. He improved his margin of victory significantly in 2003 when he defeated Congress candidate Dharam Vir Yadav by 16,564 votes. In the 2008 state assembly election, he garnered 55,793 votes against 30,019 votes of Congress candidate Vijender Jindal, and won with 62.56 percent of the votes.
On 7 November 2013, the Bharatiya Janata Party announced Aggarwal as the party's candidate from Rohini Constituency for the 2013 state legislative assembly election, held on 4 December. He filed his nomination on 13 November 2013. The former Delhi BJP president Vijender Gupta and office secretary S. K. Sharma wanted to contest from Rohini. He lost to the Aam Aadmi Party candidate Rajesh Garg with a margin of 1,872 votes.