Gaurav Bhatia is an Indian lawyer in the Supreme Court of India and the national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party. On 13 July 2022, he came into limelight when he accused former Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari of inviting a Pakistani representative who leaked some confidential Indian information to Pakistan’s spy agency ISI during the tenure of the UPA government in India. Was.
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Wiki/Biography
Gaurav Bhatia was born on Wednesday, 16 February 1977 (age 45 years; as in 2022) in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. His zodiac sign is Pisces. Soon after completing his schooling, Gaurav Bhatia joined Bridgeport University, a private American institution, to pursue a bachelor’s degree. Later, he joined Lucknow University to pursue a law degree.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 10″
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Family
parents and siblings
His father’s name is Virendra Bhatia. Virendra was a former Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha member. He also served as Advocate General of Uttar Pradesh. His mother’s name is Saroj Bhatia.
Gaurav Bhatia’s parents
He has a sister.
wife and children
Gaurav Bhatia with his wife
livelihood
The state government of Uttar Pradesh appointed Gaurav Bhatia as the state’s Additional Advocate General (AGG) in 2012. Subsequently, he was appointed as the national spokesperson and national president of the legal wing of the Samajwadi Party. He was removed from the post of AGG by the state government in 2016. From 2015 to 2017, he served as the Secretary of the Bar Association of the Supreme Court of India. Subsequently, he worked as an Advocate-on-Record of the Supreme Court of India and later, he was designated as a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court. On 5 February 2017, he resigned from the Samajwadi Party and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party as national spokesperson on 2 April 2017. In one of his media interactions, he talked about the reason behind leaving Samajwadi Party and said that the interests of the legal community in Uttar Pradesh were not protected under the Samajwadi Party rule.
Gaurav Bhatia joining BJP in 2017
Controversy
Derogatory remarks against Reena Gupta
In September 2023, an Indian politician and lawyer named Reena Gupta accused Gaurav Bhatia of making derogatory remarks about her during a debate show on television. Talking about this, in an interview, Reena had said that she had gone to Nizamuddin police station to lodge a complaint against Gaurav; However, the police officials refused to register her complaint.
Video | “Last week during a live TV debate, BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia made unpleasant remarks against me. When I objected to his comment, he dismissed it saying he didn’t know what was wrong with it. I came to Nizamuddin police station to lodge a complaint,… pic.twitter.com/nleoDmn7Il
– Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) 11 September 2023
Facts/General Knowledge
- In January 2021, an old video of Gaurav Bhatia went viral in which he was seen accusing RSS and BJP of instigating communal riots in India. Soon after the video went viral, he started being trolled on various social media platforms.
- Many Indian national news channels often invite Gaurav Bhatia on their political debate shows as the national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In one such debate held on news channel India TV in November 2018, Gaurav Bhatia told his co-panelist and Congress spokesperson Ragini Nayak that if Ragini has the right to call him a peon, then she has the right to call Indian National Congress President Rahul Gandhi a peon. Have the right. Call Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a thief. Gaurav said,
If he called PM Modi a “thief”, he reserved the right to call Rahul Gandhi a “peon”. Rahul Gandhi is a “family thief”, and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is the “mother of future Congress presidents”.
Gaurav Bhatia during a debate on a news channel
- Gaurav Bhatia often shares his photos and videos on various social media platforms. He has more than 582k followers on Twitter. He has more than 5 thousand followers on Instagram. He has more than 1 thousand subscribers on his YouTube channel. He has more than 53 thousand followers on Facebook.
- On 13 July 2022, Gaurav Bhatia, as the national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party, in a statement accused former Vice President of India Hamid Ansari of inviting Nusrat Mirza, a Pakistani journalist, during the Indian National Congress government in India. In the announcement, Gaurav Bhatia confirmed that Nusrat Mirza visited India five times during the UPA regime and passed on some sensitive information collected from India to Pakistani spy agency ISI. Bhatia said,
Mirza’s alleged comment is that he had come to India on Ansari’s invitation and had also met him, but the former Vice President rejected the claims.
Soon after the allegations made by Gaurav Bhatia on the national media, Hamid Ansari said in a press meeting that the Government of India or the Ministry of External Affairs was responsible for all invitations sent to foreign delegates and they only followed instructions. He further said that he never invited Nusrat Mirza to India. Hamid said,
I inaugurated the ‘International Conference of Jurists on International Terrorism and Human Rights’, a conference on terrorism on 11 December 2010. As is usual practice, the list of invitees would have been prepared by the organisers. I never invited him or met him.”
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