Prakash Jarwal

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Prakash Jarwal

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| residence = Delhi

| constituency = Deoli

| office = Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly

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| predecessor = Arvinder Singh Lovely

| successor = Prem Chauhan

| party = AAP

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| term_start = 2013

| education = M.Com. (University of Delhi)

| term_end = 2025

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Prakash Jarwal is an Indian politician from the Aam Aadmi Party, currently representing Deoli constituency in the Delhi State Legislature.{{cite web| url=http://delhi.aamaadmiparty.org/Delhi-Elections-2013/Prakash|title= Deoli -Prakash, Candidates Delhi 2013|publisher= Aam Aadmi Party official website}}{{cite web | url=http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseU0547.htm?ac=47 | title=Assembly Elections December 2013 Results | publisher=Election Commission of India | accessdate=4 January 2014}}{{cite web|title=Deoli's Hopes Ride on Youngest MLA|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-3150298421.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924204226/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-3150298421.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 September 2015|publisher=Hindustan Times|date = 10 December 2013 |accessdate=4 January 2014}}{{cite news |date=12 February 2015 |title=Average age of MLAs 42, a quarter postgrads |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/average-age-of-mlas-42-a-quarter-postgrads/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250312073156/https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/average-age-of-mlas-42-a-quarter-postgrads/ |archive-date=12 March 2025 |access-date=12 March 2025 |publisher=The Indian Express |language=en}}{{cite news |date=9 December 2013 |title=Aam Aadmi Party's 'giant killers' |url=https://www.ndtv.com/photos/news/aam-aadmi-partys-giant-killers-16572 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250320085917/https://www.ndtv.com/photos/news/aam-aadmi-partys-giant-killers-16572 |archive-date=20 March 2025 |access-date=20 March 2025 |work= |publisher=NDTV |language=en}}

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.{{cite news| url=http://www.thestatesman.net/news/22571-youth-is-the-mantra-for-aap.html|title= Youth is the mantra for AAP|publisher= The Statesman website|date=30 October 2013}} Jarwal has been jailed for an alleged assault on a Delhi Jal Board junior engineer.{{cite news| url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/aap-mla-held-for-assault-delhi-jal-board-engineer/1/363317.html|title= AAP MLA Prakash Jrawal held for assault on Delhi Jal Board engineer|publisher= India Today website|date=26 May 2014}}

On 21 July 2017, Jarwal was booked for molesting and harassing a woman who was allegedly a member of the Rashtravadi Janata Party.{{Cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/aap-mla-prakash-jarwal-booked-for-moelstation-for-the-second-time-4760920/|title = AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal booked for molestation for the second time|date = 21 July 2017}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/delhi-chief-secretary-assault-aap-mla-prakash-jarwal-granted-bail-by-delhi-high-court-5091730/|title=Delhi Chief Secretary 'assault': AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal granted bail by Delhi High Court|date=9 March 2018|accessdate=18 December 2019}} He was granted bail on 9 March.{{Cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/delhi-chief-secretary-assault-aap-mla-prakash-jarwal-granted-bail-by-delhi-high-court-5091730/|title = Delhi Chief Secretary 'assault': AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal granted bail by Delhi High Court|date = 9 March 2018}} 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.{{cite news |last1=Ohri |first1=Raghav |title=Court throws out assault case against Arvind Kejriwal and 10 Others |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/court-throws-out-assault-case-against-ak-and-10-others/articleshow/85254526.cms |access-date=15 March 2022 |work=The Economic Times |date=12 August 2021}}

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.{{Cite web|title=Doctor suicide: Non-Bailable warrant against AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/doctor-suicide-non-bailable-warrant-against-aap-mla-prakash-jarwal-6400458/|date=2020-05-08|website=The Indian Express|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-09}}

==Electoral performance ==

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