Saurabh Bhardwaj

Saurabh Bharadwaj is an Indian politician from the Aam Aadmi Party, who represented Greater Kailash constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly,^[2] who was formerly the Chairman of the Delhi Jal Board and Minister of Health, Urban Development and Water. He is also an Official Spokesperson of the Aam Aadmi Party.

Saurabh Bharadwaj
Cabinet Minister, Government of Delhi
In office 9 March 2023 – 8 February 2025
Lieutenant Governor	Vinai Kumar Saxena
Chief Minister	Arvind Kejriwal, Atishi
Ministry and Departments	Home Health Power Water Industries Urban development Irrigation Flood Control
Preceded by	Satyendra Kumar Jain
Succeeded by	Pankaj Kumar Singh
In office 28 December 2013 – 14 February 2014
Lieutenant Governor	Najeeb Jung
Ministry and Departments	Transport Food & Supply Environment GAD
Preceded by	Ramakant Goswami
Succeeded by	President's rule
Member of Delhi Legislative Assembly
In office 14 February 2015 – 08 February 2025
Preceded by	President's rule
Succeeded by	Shikha Roy
In office 28 December 2013 – 14 February 2014
Preceded by	Vijay Kumar Malhotra
Succeeded by	President's rule
Constituency	Greater Kailash (Delhi Assembly constituency)
Vice Chairman of Delhi Jal Board
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 March 2022
Preceded by	Raghav Chadha
Personal details
Born	(1979-12-12) 12 December 1979 (age 45)[1] New Delhi, India
Political party	Aam Aadmi Party
Spouse	Shivani Bharadwaj
Residence	New Delhi
Alma mater	Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering, Computer Science, Osmania University

Early life and education

Bharadwaj was born in New Delhi and completed his schooling in the city. He graduated as a Computer Science engineer from Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering affiliated with Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in 2003. He has also completed a bachelor's degree in law from Osmania University in 2011.^[3][4] Before entering politics, Bhardwaj worked with Johnson Controls India, his expertise being in microchips and coding. Bhardwaj started his career as a software engineer in Invensys.^[5]

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.^[6] 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.^[7] 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.^[8][9]

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.^[10] On 5 October 2024, he and some of his friends were arrested for disorderly behaviour. ^[11]

Bharadwaj lost the 2025 Delhi Legislative Assembly election from Greater Kailash to BJP's Shikha Roy by a margin of 3,188 votes.

Positions held

Year	Description
2013 - 2014	Elected to 5th Delhi Assembly from Greater Kailash Cabinet Minister for Transport, Food & Supply, Environment and GAD (28 December 2013 – 14 February 2014)
2015 - 2020	Elected to 6th Delhi Assembly from Greater Kailash
2020 - 2025	Elected to 7th Delhi Assembly from Greater Kailash Cabinet Minister for Home, Health, Power, Water, Industries, Urban development, Irrigation and Flood Control (9 March 2023 – 8 February 2025)