Saurabh Bharadwaj is an Indian politician from the Aam Aadmi Party, representing Greater Kailash cons*uency in the Delhi Legislative *embly. He is currently the Vice Chairman of the Delhi Jal Board. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Government of NCT of Delhi, heading Food & Supply, Transport, Environment and GAD ministries, during the first tenure of Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi (2013). He was elected again on 10 February 2015 as a Member of Legislative *embly from Greater Kailash.

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 *embly cons*uency, defeating Ajay *ar Malhotra, son of the senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and in*bent Leader of Opposition V.K. Malhotra, by 13092 votes in the 2013 Delhi *embly 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 as Chief Spokesperson for Delhi unit of AAP.

On 28 June 2017, Bhardwaj filed a complaint to the *embly Speaker against Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa for accusing the Delhi Pe*ions Committee of allegedly blackmailing officials.

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