Jagdish Mukhi

Jagdish Mukhi
A leader of Bharatiya Janata Party
Lt. Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Assumed office
22 August 2016
Personal details
Born Jagdish Mukhi
(1942-12-01) December 1, 1942
Dajal, Dera Gazi Khan, Punjab, British India (Now in Punjab, Pakistan)
Nationality Indian
Education Phd (Finance)/ M.Com (Shri Ram College Of Commerce)
Alma mater Kurukshetra University/ Delhi University
Occupation Retired Professor/Politician/Business

Jagdish Mukhi (born 1 December 1942) is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was born in 1942 in Dajal, Dera Gazi Khan. Mukhi is a former minister of Finance, Planning, Excise and Taxation and Higher Education in the Delhi government. He is a member of BJP and RSS. He has been teaching as reader in Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University. He launched Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in the record time of 8 months (as Minister of Higher Education). He was awarded as best planning minister of the nation by the then Union planning minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee. Two times he was awarded with best MLA award in Delhi Vidhan Sabha. He was representing Janak Puri constituency continuously from 1980 and has won seven continuous Vidhan Sabha elections from the same constituency but lost the election in 2014 by 25000 Votes against AAP leader Mr. Rajesh Rishi. He has worked at all levels in the BJP & given the best performance as President, BJP Mandal Janak Puri; General Secretary, BJP West District; President, BJP West District; General Secretary, BJP Delhi; Prabhari, BJP affairs Jammu & Kashmir; Prabhari BJP affairs Haryana. His performance was best appreciated in Loksabha & Vidhan sabha elections of Haryana where BJP has got results to the best ever performance and first time in Haryana BJP chief minister without any support has taken the oath.His wife Smt.Prem Mukhi is actively involved in social development works for women empowerment under the banner of Mahila Jagriti Sangh. He is blessed with a son Atul(BE,MBA) married to Parul(MBA) & daughter Latika married to Suresh.[1][2][3]

Early life

Mukhi hails from a Punjabi Hindu family.[4]

Controversies

In April 2004, Congress candidate from South Delhi (Lok Sabha constituency) RK Anand wrote to the Election Commission complaining that BJP leader Jagdish Mukhi had allegedly made "defamatory and scurrilous" remarks against him at a press conference which were in violation of the model code of conduct. Anand criticised Mukhi for making personal attacks, calling him a "habitual defector" and a "resident of Jharkhand", on him.[5]

In March 2008, RSS workers clashed with CPIM comrades at the party office when the three-day Central Committee meeting was going on. CPM named Jagdish Mukhi and Delhi's Mayor Aarti Mehra for being involved in the attack. The police confirmed the RSS's involvement in the incident.[6][7]

Prof Mukhi threw up an outrageous surprise while declaring his assets in April 2009. In the affidavit, Mukhi quoted the value of 1.1 kg gold at Rs. 175 per 10 grams, 100 times lower than actual. Similarly, Mukhi also claimed that his DDA MIG flat in Janakpuri’s C-4 C block (a decent 2-bedroom apartment) is worth Rs. 21,500 — the original purchasing price three decades ago.[8]

References

  1. ↑ life time line
  2. ↑ Prof. Jagdish Mukhi
  3. ↑ Jagdish Mukhi Biography
  4. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/bsp-relying-on-caste-equations-in-delhi/article331279.ece
  5. ↑ http://www.hindustantimes.com/news-feed/archives/rk-anand-takes-jagdish-mukhi-to-ec/article1-13132.aspx
  6. ↑ http://ibnlive.in.com/news/rss-workers-clash-with-cpm-comrades/60802-3.html
  7. ↑ http://archives.peoplesdemocracy.in/2008/0316_pd/03162008_akg.htm
  8. ↑ http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/mukhi-s-gold-is-really-very-old/article1-401531.aspx
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