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Who is Somnath Bharti

Somnath Bharti

About Somnath Bharti

Who is Somnath Bharti

A lawyer and politician, Somnath Bharti is affiliated to an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) member who has won back-to-back elections from the Malaviya Nagar constituency in South Delhi. After winning the 2013 Delhi Assembly election, Bharti was appointed the minister for law, administrative reforms, and art & culture in the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government that lasted only 49 days.
 
When an Assembly election was next held in 2015, Bharti and won from the Malviya Nagar seat with a bigger mandate than in 2013, while his party swept the election, winning 67 of the 70 seats.
 
Born in Bihar’s Nawada in 1974 to
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SC issues notice to UP govt on Somnath Bharti's plea over hospital remarks

On April 10 last year, it issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government and imposed an interim stay on the proceedings on a plea filed by Bharti seeking the transfer of the case

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Updated On : 15 Oct 2024 | 1:50 PM IST

HC points mistakes in Bharti's plea against Swaraj, asks to file it again

Justice Manmeet PS Arora said at the outset that there were a lot of typographical errors which made it difficult to understand the averments in the petition

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Updated On : 22 Jul 2024 | 12:54 PM IST

Don't use our matters for political mileage: Somnath Bharti's wife to FM

Bharti also hit out at Sitharaman saying if the BJP government had worked at the Centre, she would not need to rake up his family matter to hurt his wife and children

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Updated On : 19 May 2024 | 7:16 AM IST

Delay in fund disbursal halted all works of Delhi Jal Board: Somnath Bharti

In an interview with PTI, he said that since maintenance work happens every day and DJB contractors have gone on strike due to non-payment of dues, the work of the jal board has been "suffering"

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Updated On : 08 Dec 2023 | 9:28 AM IST

Assembly speaker nominates Somnath Bharti as Delhi Jal Board vice-chairman

Bharti, a former Delhi law minister, is a legislator from the Malviya Nagar constituency. He was first elected from the seat in 2013

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Updated On : 10 Mar 2023 | 8:19 PM IST

Candidates recommended by Delhi govt await approval from DU: Somnath Bharti

Senior AAP leader Somnath Bharti alleged that Delhi University has not yet approved the nomination of candidates recommended by the city dispensation for governing bodies in government-funded colleges

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Updated On : 07 Mar 2023 | 10:57 PM IST

Somnath Bharti moves HC against conviction, 2-yr jail term in assault case

AAP MLA Somnath Bharti Wednesday approached the Delhi High Court

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Updated On : 24 Mar 2021 | 2:46 PM IST

Assaulting AIIMS staff: Court upholds 2-year jail to Somnath Bharti

A Delhi court Tuesday upheld an order sentencing AAP MLA Somnath Bharti to two years in jail for assaulting the AIIMS security staff in a case registered in 2016.

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Updated On : 23 Mar 2021 | 6:58 PM IST

Delhi court suspends magistrate court order convicting AAP's Somnath Bharti

A sessions court in Delhi has suspended a magistrate court order convicting AAP MLA Somnath Bharti

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Updated On : 28 Jan 2021 | 11:26 PM IST

AAP MLA Somnath Bharti convicted for assaulting AIIMS security guards

The court has acquitted four other persons accused in the same matter

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Updated On : 23 Jan 2021 | 11:49 AM IST

AAP MLA Somnath Bharti gets bail in one case, hearing on another tomorrow

A special court here on Friday granted bail to Aam Aadmi Party MLA Somnath Bharti in one of the two cases lodged against him

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Updated On : 15 Jan 2021 | 6:34 PM IST

AAP MLA Somnath Bharti arrested in UP for his remarks, ink thrown at him

He was remanded to 14 days in judicial custody at Amhat jail in Sultanpur district

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Updated On : 11 Jan 2021 | 9:49 PM IST

Kejriwal slams UP CM over throwing of ink at AAP MLA Somnath Bharti

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday slammed his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath over the throwing of ink at AAP MLA Somnath Bharti in Uttar Pradesh.

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Updated On : 11 Jan 2021 | 9:16 PM IST

Somnath Bharti, wife living happily together: HC on domestic violence case

The court also noted that the woman has no objection if the FIR is quashed

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Updated On : 07 May 2019 | 1:49 PM IST

Court grants bail to MLA Somnath Bharti

Bharti was accused of AIIMS boundary wall dispute case

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Updated On : 22 Sep 2016 | 9:00 PM IST

AAP's Somnath Bharti arrested for damaging AIIMS property

The Delhi Police had registered an FIR against the AAP leader and his supporters on September 11 following a complaint by the institution's Chief Security Officer R.S. Rawat

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Updated On : 22 Sep 2016 | 2:59 PM IST

Somnath Bharti dares 'Modi police' to arrest him

He said that the honest politics of the AAP is making the BJP restless

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Updated On : 12 Sep 2016 | 12:01 PM IST

FIR against AAP MLA Somnath Bharti for 'instigating' men to misbehave with woman

Bharti had been chargesheeted for attempting to kill his wife Lipika Mitra and inflicting cruelty on her in a domestic violence case

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Updated On : 20 Jul 2016 | 11:54 AM IST