Prakash Jarwal is an Indian politician from the

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, currently representing Deoli constituency in the Delhi State Legislature.

About

Jarwal is the youngest candidate of

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 ...

, 25 years old. Jarwal has left his job of assistant manager in a multinational company, to join the anti-Corruption movement and later AAP. Jarwal has been jailed for an alleged assault on a Delhi Jal Board junior engineer. On 21 July 2017, Jarwal was booked for molesting and harassing a woman who was allegedly a member of the

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. On 20 February 2018, an assault case was filed by Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash against Jarwal and fellow legislator

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for allegedly slapping and abusing him at the residence of Chief Minister

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. He was granted bail on 9 March. In 2021, a Delhi court dismissed the assault case filed by the Delhi bureaucrat against Kejriwal and ten AAP MLAs and discharged them of all charges. The court noted that "no

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case" was made against them. On 18 April 2020, a 52-year-old doctor, Rajendra Singh, had allegedly committed suicide, holding Jarwal responsible in his suicide note following which police had registered a case against the legislator on charges of extortion and abetment to suicide.

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