Deepak Bharadwaj
Deepak Bhardwaj | |
|---|---|
| Constituency | West Delhi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sonipat, Haryana, India |
| Died | 26 March, 2013 Delhi |
| Political party | Bahujan Samaj Party |
| Children | Two |
| Residence | Delhi |
| Occupation | Property dealer, hotelier, school owner |
Deepak Bharadwaj (1951–2013) was an Indian politician belonging to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). Bharadwaj had contested for 15th Lok Sabha from the West Delhi Constituency in May 2009.[1] As per news reports, he was the richest candidate for the 15th Lok Sabha elections with declared assets amounting to be more than 600 crores.[2][3][1] At the time of contesting elections he was also facing two criminal cases.[4] He is distantly related to Shah Rukh Khan
Early Life
Bharadwaj was born near Sonipat, Haryana in 1950 in a Brahmin family.[4] His family had a few acres of land. After graduating in commerce from Delhi University’s School of Correspondence,[5] he became a stenographer with the Delhi government’s sales tax office.[6]
Career
He started a business of automobile parts. “And I did real estate on the side,” Bhardwaj says. He used to acquire agricultural land for industrial houses and for farmhouses. He shut down the automobile business in 1979 and started doing real estate full-time.[7] Bharadwaj had businesses in real estate, hotels and education. He ran a school in Dwarka and claimed plans to open two more schools - one in Dwarka and the other in Dhansa, both in West Delhi.[8] A resident of Lajwanti Garden in West Delhi, Bhardwaj also owned a township project in Hardwar and a hotel on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway. Real estate, he says, is the surest way of getting rich. Indeed, Deepak Bhardwaj is the richest Lok Sabha candidate of year 2009; his and his wife’s declared assets was Rs 603 crore. “It’s a non-issue,” he says, “I had to declare what I had in my books.” When he filed his nomination on 16 April, 2009 for the West Delhi seat, he caused a furore. The media had one big question—isn’t there a contradiction between fighting from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and being filthy rich? “It’s helped us differentiate him from other candidates,” says his publicity manager, “Now everyone knows his name.” Until Bhardwaj filed his affidavit, the richest candidate in Delhi was Kanwar Singh Tanwar, with assets of Rs 155 crore. Tanwar, a Gurjar born in Fatehpur village in the outer Delhi area of Chhatarpur, now has a mansion there.[9]
Death
Bharadwaj was shot dead on 26th March, 2013 by "two or three unidentified men" in his farm house, Nitesh Kunj located in Vasant Kunj area of New Delhi. The Delhi police say Deepak Bhardwaj was estranged from his family for the past several months and his murder was plotted because of a property dispute. Mr Bhardwaj was shot dead in his sprawling 26-acre farmhouse near Gurgaon by two men. The alleged killers were caught on CCTV camera coming out of the farmhouse brandishing a gun and then escaping in a grey Skoda car. (Watch) They were arrested two weeks later. The Delhi Police arrested Deepak Bhardwaj's younger son and his laywer Nitesh and Baljeet Singh Sehrawat respectively on Apr 10, 2013, in the murder case
References
- ^ a b BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj, richest candidate in 2009 polls, shot dead at Delhi farmhouse [1]
- ^ BSP’s West Delhi man worth Rs. 622 crore [2]
- ^ "BSP leader shot dead by two men at a farmhouse in South Delhi". In.com. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
- ^ a b Election affidavit [3]
- ^ http://www.scribd.com/doc/132436406/Deepak-Bhardwaj-Assets-copy
- ^ http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/the-bsp-billionaires
- ^ http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/the-bsp-billionaires
- ^ Know about Delhi's builder Deepak Bhardwaj [4]
- ^ http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/the-bsp-billionaires
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