Prakash Jarwal

Prakash Jarwal is an Indian politician from the Aam Aadmi Party, currently representing Deoli constituency in the Delhi State Legislature.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Prakash Jarwal
Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly
In office 2013–2025
Preceded by	Arvinder Singh Lovely
Succeeded by	Prem Chauhan
Constituency	Deoli
Personal details
Political party	AAP
Residence	Delhi
Education	M.Com. (University of Delhi)

About

Jarwal is the youngest candidate of Aam Aadmi Party, 25 years old. Jarwal has left his job of assistant manager in a multinational company, to join the anti-Corruption movement and later AAP.^[6] Jarwal has been jailed for an alleged assault on a Delhi Jal Board junior engineer.^[7]

On 21 July 2017, Jarwal was booked for molesting and harassing a woman who was allegedly a member of the Rashtravadi Janata Party.^[8]

On 20 February 2018, an assault case was filed by Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash against Jarwal and fellow legislator Amanatullah Khan for allegedly slapping and abusing him at the residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.^[9] He was granted bail on 9 March.^[10] In 2021, a Delhi court dismissed the assault case filed by the Delhi bureaucrat against Kejriwal and ten AAP MLAs and discharged them of all charges. The court noted that "no prima facie case" was made against them.^[11]

On 18 April 2020, a 52-year-old doctor, Rajendra Singh, had allegedly committed suicide, holding Jarwal responsible in his suicide note following which police had registered a case against the legislator on charges of extortion and abetment to suicide.^[12]

Electoral performance

This section is transcluded from Deoli, Delhi Assembly constituency. (edit | history)

Delhi Assembly elections, 2013: Deoli

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Prakash Jarwal	51,646	43.65	New
	BJP	Gagan Rana	34,538	29.19	+5.48
	INC	Arvinder Singh Lovely	26,140	22.09	−21.32
	BSP	Kishor Kumar Rajora	4,419	3.73	−22.29
	NOTA	None of the above	838	0.71	New
Majority			17,108	14.46	−2.93
Turnout			1,18,364	64.22	+23.80
	AAP gain from INC		Swing	+43.65

Delhi Assembly elections, 2015: Deoli

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Prakash Jarwal	96,530	70.61	+26.96
	BJP	Arvind Kumar	32,593	23.84	−5.35
	INC	Rajesh Chauhan	4,968	3.63	−17.46
	BSP	Dalchand Kapil	1,569	1.15	−2.48
	NOTA	None of the above	502	0.37	−0.34
Majority			63,937	46.77	+32.31
Turnout			1,36,721	67.59	+15.55
	AAP hold		Swing	+26.96

Delhi Assembly elections, 2020: Deoli

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Prakash Jarwal	92,575	61.59	−9.02
	BJP	Arvind Kumar	52,402	34.86	+11.02
	INC	Arvinder Singh Lovely	2,711	1.80	−1.83
	BSP	Ravi Kumar	620	0.61	−0.54
	None of the Above	None of the Above	703	0.47	+0.10
Majority			40,173	26.73	−20.04
Turnout			1,50,388	63.53	−4.06
	AAP hold		Swing	-9.02

Delhi Assembly elections, 2025: Deoli^[13][14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Prem Kumar Chauhan	86,889	55.09
	LJP(RV)	Deepak Tanwar	50,209	31.83
	INC	Rajesh Chauhan	12,211	7.74
	BSP	Asmita	2,581	1.64
Majority			36,680	13.26
Turnout			1,57,734
	AAP hold		Swing