Dinesh Mohaniya is an Indian politician belonging to

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 is an MLA from Sangam Vihar constituency. He defeated the

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candidate Shiv Charan Lal Gupta and

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candidate Jag Parvesh (

Sajjan Kumar Sajjan Kumar (born 23 September 1945) is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from Outer Delhi as a member of the Indian National Congress but resigned from the primary membership o ...

's son) in 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 ...

. In 2014, Mohaniya alleged that the BJP leader Sher Singh Dagar offered him 40,000,000 to help BJP form the state government in Delhi. AAP released sting footage of the conversation between the two. He again won Delhi Assembly Election 2020 from Sangam Vihar, with a margin of 42522 votes by defeating Shiv Charan Lal Gupta (Janata Dal (United)).

Political career

Between Feb. 2015 and Aug. 2015 he was the Chairman, DDC South. Between 2015 and 2020 he was the Vice Chairman,

Delhi Jal Board Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is the government agency responsible for supply of potable water to the most of the National Capital Territory region of Delhi, India. Delhi Jal Board was constituted on 6 April 1998 through an Act of the Delhi Legislative As ...

(DJB). From Nov. 2020 till present he served as the Chairperson, Delhi Development Committee, South East District. Since 2020 he was the Aam Aadmi Party Incharge, Uttarakhand. Since 2020 he was the co-Incharge MCD.

Member of Legislative Assembly

Second term (2015-2020)

In 2015 he was elected as the MLA representing Sangam Vihar in the

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. ; Committee assignments of Sixth Delhi Legislative Assembly Chairman, (2015-2020) The Estimates Committee

Third term (2020-)

He was re-elected to the

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in 2020. ; Committee assignments of Seventh Delhi Legislative Assembly *Chairman, (2020- ) Committee on Government Undertakings

Electoral performance

References

External links

Dinesh Mohaniya on Twitter

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1977 births Living people Aam Aadmi Party politicians from Delhi Delhi MLAs 2013–2015 Delhi MLAs 2015–2020 Delhi MLAs 2020–2025 {{AAP-politician-stub