Devinder Kumar Sehrawat
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Devinder Kumar Sehrawat is an Indian politician and former member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi of India.[1][2][3][4][5] He has represented the Bijwasan constituency[6][7] of New Delhi being a member of The AAM AADMI PARTY. He was one of the prominent persons who marched on 31 Jan 2011, the first rally and start of India Against Corruption Movement in Delhi. He was one of the founder member of the AAP. He worked as social and environmental activist.[8][9][10][11][12] He organised several Maha Panchayats of farmers and was instrumental in inclusion of several pro farmer provisions in the right to fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Aquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement act 2013. To secure the environment he took up Vide PIL on SDMC for waste collection and cleaning of Airport Area.[13] He proposed and worked to get the Delhi Airport area infrastructure development plan and contributed towards decongestion, greening and infrastructure upgradation by his efforts. He has been an activist in preservation of the ancient heritage of Delhi. He organised a mass moment to prevent encroachment in Airport Area by over 2,500 Burmese immigrants.[14] He tookup the matter of safety of School children of Delhi on death of 2 young children one in Govt School Kapashera and the other in Ryan School in Vasant Kunj.[15][16] He filed public interest litigation[17] in High Court of Delhi against the negligence of the school authorities and Govt. officials and got a standard operating procedure issued by the court for the safety of approx. 50 Lakh school children of Delhi[18][19] While holding the position of secretary of Delhi Gramin Samaj helped the farmers.[20] He was a part of the protest against the Haryana government's move to acquire around 3,800 acres at Bawal for industrial development[21] and got highlighted for the social cause on TOI in march 2013.[22] He tabled the Motion in support of OROP in Delhi legislative Assembly on 25 June 2015.[23]
Devinder Kumar Sehrawat | |
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MLA, Sixth Legislative Assembly | |
In office Feb 2014 – Feb 2019 | |
Preceded by | Sat Prakash Rana |
Constituency | Bijwasan |
Personal details | |
Born | (1965-10-30) 30 October 1965 (age 58)[1] New Delhi, India[1] |
Other political affiliations | BJP |
Spouse | Poonam (wife) |
Children | 1 son & 1 daughter |
Parent | Ram Prakash Sehrawat (father)[1] |
Residence | New Delhi |
Education | Business Management, BSc |
Alma mater | IIM Ahmedabad & Jawaharlal Nehru University[2] |
Profession | Politician |