Rajesh Garg

Rajesh Garg, sometimes known as Rajesh Garg Rohiniwala, is an Indian politician.^[1] He was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Rohini constituency in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections.^[2][3] He is also a Right to Information activist.^[4]

Political career

While a student at the University of Delhi, Garg was a member of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student and youth wing of Bharatiya Jan Sangh. He left ABVP to join a student leader who had left the National Students' Union of India, the student and youth wing of the Indian National Congress in the same year, to form a Chhatra Morcha, in order to contest Delhi University Students' Union elections. Garg was elected president.^{[citation needed]}

Garg's wife fought an election on the Congress ticket. In spite of being a Congress member, he took part in the Jan Lokpal Andolan.^[1] Aam Aadmi Party suspended Garg when he released an audio tape featuring Arvind Kejriwal.^[5][6] He alleged that Kejriwal's men used to call him and other MLAs, pretending to be leaders from Bharatiya Janata Party and asking for support.^[7]