Somnath Bharti (AAP)

February 03, 2015 03:46 pm | Updated 03:48 pm IST

Age : 40

Constituency : Malviya Nagar

Pitted against : Nandani Sharma (BJP), Yoganand Shastri (Congress)

Education : M.Sc in Mathematics (IIT-Delhi, 1997); LLB (DU, 2008)

Declared assets (movable and immovable, including spouse’s) : Rs. 1,39,71,306

Pending criminal cases : NIL

Bharti was a lawyer, academician and IT consultant before he became Cabinet Minister in the AAP-led Delhi government in 2013. While in office, he revealed the identity of a Danish rape victim. He courted controversy after leading a vigilante midnight raid on a Delhi colony and demanding that certain resident Africans be arrested for drug-racketeering.

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