Dharamvir Gandhi (born 1 June 1951) is an Indian politician and was earlier a member of the

Aam Aadmi Party The Aam Aadmi Party (; AAP) is a political party in India, as one of the national political parties. The AAP was founded in November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal and his then-companions following the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, popular ...

(AAP). He was a

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from

Patiala Patiala () is a city in southeastern Punjab, India, Punjab, northwestern India. It is the fourth largest city in the state and is the administrative capital of Patiala district. Patiala is located around the ''Qila Mubarak, Patiala, Qila Mubarak ...

Career

During his college days, Gandhi was detained for a month in

Amritsar Amritsar (), historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as ''Ambarsar'', is the second largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana. It is a major cultural, transportation and economic centre, located in the Majha r ...

, for protesting against the 1977 Emergency. He went on to become a reputed

cardiologist Cardiology () is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular hear ...

of Patiala. He also worked as a senior lecturer at the

Government Medical College, Patiala Government Medical College, Patiala, is the second-oldest medical college in the state of Punjab, in India. History Government Medical College, Patiala was proposed in October 1951 by the Patiala and East Punjab States Union government, under ...

's Department of Cardiology. Gandhi joined politics inspired by the

2011 Indian anti-corruption movement The Indian anti-corruption movement, popularly known as Anna Andolan, was a series of demonstrations and protests across India that began in 2011 and was intended to establish strong legislation and enforcement against perceived endemic politi ...

, and campaigned for the AAP during the

2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election The Delhi Legislative Assembly election was held on 4 December 2013, with the result announced on 8 December resulting in formation of the Fifth Legislative Assembly of Delhi. The Bharatiya Janata Party won a plurality, closely followed by Aam ...

. He contested the

2014 Indian general election General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 ...

from Patiala on an AAP ticket. During the campaign, he was assaulted in the Rasulpur Saidan area, allegedly by the

Shiromani Akali Dal The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) (translation: ''Supreme Akali Party'') is a centre-right sikh-centric state political party in Punjab, India. The party is the second-oldest in India, after Congress, being founded in 1920. Although there are many ...

Municipal Councillor Rajinder Singh Virk. Gandhi defeated the incumbent MP

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by a margin of 20,942 votes. He resigned from AAP in 2016. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Gandhi created his own party Punjab Front and contested. He came on third position.Dharamvir Gandhi flots Nawan Punjab Party
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Punjab Front

Punjab Front was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

in India formed by merging various splinter groups, smaller regional forums, fronts and political parties led by MP Dharamvir Gandhi. It is the official name given to the much-anticipated Mahagathbandhan (or Fourth Front ) which was formed in

Punjab, India Punjab (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in northern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the States and union territories of India, Indian states of Himachal ...

after a day-long series of deliberations by like-minded groups and political organisations. The announcement of the Front was made by Gandhi at the end of the "Round Table Conference" in

Chandigarh Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which al ...

on Sunday 26 September 2016. The party decided at a meeting in November 2016 to campaign for the enforcement of the Right To Education Act of 2009. The party claims that both government and private schools and colleges are guilty of discriminatory admission practices and are not managed in accordance with the law. In December 2016 the party announced fifteen candidates to contest the

2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election A Legislative Assembly election was held in the Indian state of Punjab on 4 February 2017 to elect the 117 members of the Fifteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly. The counting of votes was done on 11 March 2017. The ruling pre-election coalition w ...

. All of them lost the election.

Nawan Punjab Party

Nawan Punjab Party is a Political party in

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

established by Dharamvir Gandhi the then

from

Constituency on 11 March 2019. Dharamvir Gandhi formed a

Punjab Front The Battle of Lahore (Urdu: ; ''Jang-e-Lāhaur'', Hindi: लाहौर की लड़ाई; ''Lāhaur kī laḍ.āī''), also referred to as the Lahore Front, constitutes a series of battles fought in and around the Pakistani city of L ...

in 2016 to contest

. However his front failed to make any impact in election. After this in 2019 before

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he formed Nawan Punjab Party and joined

Punjab Democratic Alliance Punjab Democratic Alliance was formed by Punjab Ekta Party leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira to contest 2019 Indian general election in Punjab on all 13 Lok Sabha seats. PDA was part of the nationwide Mahagathbandhan, and projected Mayawati as its ...

2019 General election

Nawan Punjab Party candidate Dharamvir Gandhi contested only from

Constituency. However party lost from this constituency and Dharamvir Gandhi stood at third place and got 1,61,645 votes and 13.72% vote share from this constituency.Election result of Patiala Lok Sabha constituency
''www.elections.in''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gandhi, Dharamvir Living people India MPs 2014–2019 People from Patiala district Lok Sabha members from Punjab, India 1951 births Former members of Aam Aadmi Party from Punjab