Jitender Singh Tomar is an Indian politician and former cabinet minister of law and justice in the Government of NCT of Delhi headed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. He was a member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and represents Tri Nagar in the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi.
About Jitender Singh Tomar Ji
Jitender Singh Tomar was born in the village of Fatehpur, Etah district, Uttar Pradesh, on 12 April 1966.At the time of filing his 2015 election affidavit, Tomar claimed that in 1999 he obtained a L.L.B. degree from Bishwanath Singh Institute of Legal Studies, Munger, affiliated to Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University, Bihar, which is now disputed. He was enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) and was self-employed.
Tomar was associated with the Indian National Congress (INC). In 2013, he joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and as its candidate contested the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections from the Tri Nagar constituency. He lost by 2809 votes to Nand Kishore Garg of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha today
This profile was published on India Vote Kar in July 2016 and describes Jitender Singh Tomar as it stood then. Uttar Pradesh returns 80 members to the 18th Lok Sabha, elected in 2024; the first 12 by seat number are:
- Saharanpur — Imran Masood, Indian National Congress
- Kairana — Iqra Choudhary, Samajwadi Party
- Muzaffarnagar — Harendra Singh Malik, Samajwadi Party
- Bijnor — Chandan Chauhan, Rashtriya Lok Dal
- Nagina — Chandrashekhar Azad, Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram)
- Moradabad — Ruchi Veera, Samajwadi Party
- Rampur — Mohibbullah Nadvi, Samajwadi Party
- Sambhal — Zia ur Rahman Barq, Samajwadi Party
- Amroha — Kanwar Singh Tanwar, Bharatiya Janata Party
- Meerut — Arun Govil, Bharatiya Janata Party
- Baghpat — Rajkumar Sangwan, Rashtriya Lok Dal
- Ghaziabad — Atul Garg, Bharatiya Janata Party