Caption: | Dinesh Mohaniya Baghel |
Office2: | Member of Delhi Legislative Assembly |
Term Start2: | 28 December 2013 |
Predecessor2: | Dr. Shiv Charan Lal Gupta |
Office1: | Vice Chairman of the Delhi Jal Board |
Term Start1: | 29 July 2015[1] |
Term End1: | 2 March 2020 |
Successor1: | Raghav Chadha |
Party: | Aam Aadmi Party |
Alma Mater: | Deshbandhu College Amity University, Noida |
Nationality: | Indian |
Spouse: | Rani Mohaniya (wife) |
Children: | 1 son and 1 daughter |
Parents: | Bhagat Singh Mohaniya Baghel (father) |
Residence: | B-14, Shiv Park, Khanpur, New Delhi-110062 |
Profession: | Politician |
Birth Date: | 1977 12, df=yes |
Birth Place: | New Delhi, India |
Dinesh Mohaniya is an Indian politician belonging to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He is an MLA from Sangam Vihar constituency. He defeated the BJP candidate Shiv Charan Lal Gupta and Congress candidate Jag Parvesh (Sajjan Kumar's son) in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election.
In 2014, Mohaniya alleged that the BJP leader Sher Singh Dagar offered him 40,000,000 to help BJP form the state government in Delhi. AAP released sting footage of the conversation between the two.[2]
He again won Delhi Assembly Election 2020 from Sangam Vihar, with a margin of 42522 votes by defeating Shiv Charan Lal Gupta (Janata Dal (United)).
Between Feb. 2015 and Aug. 2015 he was the Chairman, DDC South. Between 2015 and 2020 he was the Vice Chairman, Delhi Jal Board (DJB).[3] From Nov. 2020 till present he served as the Chairperson, Delhi Development Committee, South East District.
Since 2020 he was the Aam Aadmi Party Incharge, Uttarakhand. Since 2020 he was the co-Incharge MCD.
He was arrested in 2016 for molestation and sexual harassment and sent to Tihar Jail in Delhi. He was later acquitted by the Delhi High Court.[4] [5]
In 2015 he was elected as the MLA representing Sangam Vihar in the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi. He was made the Chairman of the Estimates Committee.
He was re-elected to the Delhi Legislative Assembly in 2020 and made the Chairman on the committee on Government Undertakings.