Vijay Kumar Malhotra (born 3 December 1931) is an Indian politician and a sport administrator. He belongs to the

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. He was born in the Lahore city of

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which is now in

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. He was the 4th out of the seven children of Kaviraj Khazan Chand. He represented Delhi Sadar and

South Delhi South Delhi is an administrative district of the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India with its headquarters in Saket. Administratively, the district is divided into three subdivisions, Saket, Hauz Khas, and Mehrauli. It is bounded by t ...

constituencies in the

National Capital Territory of Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...

in the

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and the 14th Lok Sabha respectively.

Career

Malhotra has had long active career in politics; Chief Executive Councillor of Delhi's Metropolitan Council (Chief Minister equivalent, 1967), President of the

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

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(1977) and

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, Delhi (1980–84). Along with Mr

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and

Madan Lal Khurana Madan Lal Khurana (15 October 1936 – 27 October 2018) was an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi from 1993 to 1996. He also served as Governor of Rajasthan in 2004. He was the Union Minister of Parliamentary affairs and Touri ...

, Malhotra was credited with keeping BJP afloat in Delhi for many years. His biggest political victory was defeating the former Prime Minister of India

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in the

1999 Indian general election General elections were held in India between 5 September and 3 October 1999, a few months after the Kargil War. Results were announced on 6 October 1999. The elections saw the National Democratic Alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party win ...

by a huge margin. Malhotra has been a 5 time MP and 2 time MLA from

, over the past 45 years, making him one of BJP's senior most figures in the capital. In the

2004 Indian general election General elections were held in India in four phases between 20 April and 10 May 2004. Over 670 million people were eligible to vote, electing 543 members of the 14th Lok Sabha. Seven states also held assembly elections to elect state governm ...

, Malhotra was the only

candidate to win his seat in

, with the Congress winning the other 6 seats. Malhotra has enjoyed a spotless and clean image throughout his distinguished career, and even at the age of 82, despite not being offered a post by the

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government, he offered to become BJP's election campaign chairman for

and led the party to a whitewash victory, securing all 7 seats. Malhotra is also an educationist. He holds a Doctorate in Hindi Literature. Besides politics and social work, Malhotra is also involved with the administration of the chess and archery clubs in Delhi.

Sports Administration

Malhotra was the Senior Vice-President of the

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and the acting President of the IOA since 26 April 2011, after

Suresh Kalmadi Suresh Kalmadi (born 1 May 1944) is an Indian politician who spent 10 months in jail from April 2011 to January 2012 on corruption charges related to his time in charge of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. He was accused of awarding a con ...

was arrested by the CBI in connection with the alleged irregularities in awarding contracts for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.IOA sacks Suresh Kalmadi, V K Malhotra named acting president
/ref> He is also the president of the General Association of National Sports Federations and the president of the

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since last 44 years. He was also associated with the organisation of the

2010 Commonwealth Games The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, f ...

held in New Delhi. In October 2015, Malhotra was named as the Chairman of the All Indian Council of Sports (AICS), and was given the rank of a minister of state.

Chief ministerial candidate

On 26 September 2008 the BJP announced that Malhotra would be party's chief ministerial candidate in the election to Delhi Assembly in 2008

While Malhotra easily won his Greater Kailash (Delhi Assembly constituency), Greater Kailash constituency, the BJP failed to dislodge the

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government. Only days after election results were revealed, Malhotra was in attendance in the

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past ...

, fuelling speculation that he intends to continue in Parliament, instead of serving in the

Delhi Legislative Assembly The Delhi Legislative Assembly, also known as the Delhi Vidhan Sabha, is a unicameral legislature of the union territory of Delhi in India. Delhi Legislative Assembly is the legislative arm of the Government of Delhi. At present, it consists o ...

. However he resigned as

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

and retained his seat of an MLA in

and would serve as Leader of opposition

References

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