New Delhi:
The Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) has nominated Durgesh Pathak as its candidate for the Rajinder Nagar constituency within the upcoming Delhi Meeting election. Mr Pathak, the youngest member of the Political Affairs Committee of AAP, is eyeing re-election after he received the 2022 bypolls from the identical seat.
Listed here are 5 info about Durgesh Pathak:
1. Durgesh Pathak was born in Sikohara village close to Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. He arrived in Delhi in 2010 to arrange for the Civil Companies examination. A yr later, throughout Anna Hazare’s India In opposition to Corruption (IAC) motion, Mr Pathak joined as a volunteer.
2. Throughout his preliminary years as an activist, Durgesh Pathak performed an instrumental function alongside Arvind Kejriwal, Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan in establishing AAP’s basis within the nationwide capital. In 2013, Mr Pathak managed the election marketing campaign for Kejriwal, who defeated then-chief minister Sheila Dikshit.
3. In 2015, Durgesh Pathak was named Delhi co-convener of the get together forward of the Meeting polls. He was in control of 35 of the 70 seats within the nationwide capital. The AAP received 34 of them. He was additionally the co-incharge with Sanjay Singh for the 2017 Meeting election in Punjab.
4. Durgesh Pathak made his electoral debut within the 2020 Meeting elections. He was fielded from the Karawal Nagar seat. Though AAP retained energy within the nationwide capital with a near-repeat of its 2015 efficiency, Mr Pathak misplaced to BJP heavyweight Mohan Singh Bisht. In 2022, after Raghav Chadha was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Punjab, his Rajinder Nagar Meeting seat fell vacant. The get together introduced Durgesh Pathak because the candidate for the by-poll. This time, the younger chief defeated BJP’s Rajesh Bhatia by over 11,000 votes.
5. In July 2024, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) named Durgesh Pathak and 4 others within the Delhi excise coverage case. The central company claimed that Mr Pathak was the AAP in-charge of the 2022 Goa Meeting election and cash acquired by means of kickbacks was spent on his directions. In September 2024, Mr Pathak was granted bail within the case by a Delhi courtroom.