Age : 38
Constituency : Babarpur
Pitted against : Naresh Gaur (BJP), Zakir Khan (Congress)
Education : M.A. Sociology (Lucknow University, 1998)
Declared assets (movable and immovable, including spouse’s) : Rs. 52,39,843
Pending criminal cases : 2
A post-graduate in Sociology from Lucknow University (1998), Rai’s political career began in 1992 with the CPIL(Marxist-Leninist)’s student wing. He suffers partial paralysis from having been shot as a student. He lost in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly polls from Babarpur. In 2013, he was involved in a dispute with General V.K. Singh during Anna Hazare’s hunger strike at Ralegaon Siddhi. He is member of AAP’s Political Affairs Committee.