Saurabh Bharadwaj, trusted Kejriwal man who was once an engineer in US

Speaking to The Indian Express, Bharadwaj said, “My main priority is to ensure that flagship programmes of the AAP government are not stalled, especially at the level of bureaucracy.”

“We will reach out to the Lieutenant Governor to underline that political differences between us should be put aside, so they may play out as they must on the side, but these should not be allowed to affect the administrative functioning of the city,” he said.

He is currently the national spokesperson of the AAP and is likely to be given health department among others. He is also the vice chairperson of the Delhi Jal Board at the moment.

The face of the AAP, both on television news debates as well as social media, Bharadwaj enrolled as a volunteer with India Against Corruption movement in 2011 and is considered one of its founding members. In 2017, he demonstrated the “hacking” of a dummy Electronic Voting Machine on the floor of the Delhi Assembly.

According to party sources, he was fielded from the Greater Kailash constituency given his popularity in the media and among his constituents, and has since held political sway over it for the last decade. Following the party’s electoral conquest in 2020, Bharadwaj famously led the ‘Hanuman procession’, likening lord Hanuman to Kejriwal to counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s projection as lord Ram by the BJP.