Akash Vijayvargiya is an Indian politician of

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, Madhya Pradesh. In

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, Vijayvargiya defeated

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veteran and 3 time MLA Ashwin Joshi by a margin of over 5700 votes to win his debut election. He is author of spiritual motivational book ‘Dev Se Mahadev’. This book was launched in presence of Baba Ramdev. He is the eldest son of

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's National General Secretary

Kailash Vijayvargiya Kailash Vijayvargiya (born 13 May 1956) is an Indian politician serving as National General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party . He started his political career in the Indore Bharatiya Janata Party, and was the mayor of Indore, a six-time legi ...

. Akash Vijayvargiya was awarded by "Daink Bhaskar Eminent award 2021" at Delhi for his extra ordinary efforts to help society during Covid Era. In 2023, was awarded again by central minister Ashwini Vaishnav for development work in his constituency.

Biography

He is a post-graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, USA in Environment Engineering. He had conducted entrepreneur research work at IIM Ahmedabad. His research project was selected by IIM Ahmedabad for online business implementation in India. He joined the

since 2008 and presently from 11 November 2012 as the District Officer of Deendayal Mandal Serving.

Controversies

On 26 June 2019, he was in the news for beating up a government servant with a cricket bat, an action which drew sharp criticism from all quarters, including members of his own political party. After the video clip got viral, he was arrested by MP police.

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* * Living people Politicians from Indore Madhya Pradesh MLAs 2018–2023 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Madhya Pradesh 1984 births {{MadhyaPradesh-BJP-politician-stub