Saurabh Bhardwaj

Saurabh Bharadwaj
Cabinet Minister, Government of Delhi
In office 9 March 2023 – 17 September 2024
Lieutenant Governor	Vinai Kumar Saxena
Chief Minister	Arvind Kejriwal
Ministry and Departments	Home Health Power Water Industries Urban development Irrigation Flood Control
Preceded by	Satyendra Kumar Jain
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 the Delhi Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 February 2015
Preceded by	President's rule
In office 28 December 2013 – 14 February 2014
Preceded by	Vijay Kumar Malhotra
Succeeded by	President's rule
Constituency	Greater Kailash
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 New Delhi, India
Political party	Aam Aadmi Party
Spouse	Shivani Bharadwaj
Residence	New Delhi
Alma mater	Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering Branch computer science Osmania University

Saurabh Bharadwaj is an Indian politician from the Aam Aadmi Party, representing Greater Kailash constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly. He was the Chairman of the Delhi Jal Board and Minister of Health, Urban development and water since 9 March 2023. He was stripped of his positions on 8 August 2023 and his ministries were given to PWD chief Atishi. He is also the National Chief Spokesperson Of the Aam Aadmi Party.

Early life and education

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

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. 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. 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.

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. On 5 October 2024, he and some of his friends were arrested for disorderly behaviour.

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 - Till Date	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 – Till Date)