Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, who is always in the news due to his controversial speeches, is the son of Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma. He has also been an MLA from Mehrauli Assembly seat of Delhi and an MP from West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency. As a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he twice served as MP for West Delhi. In 2014 he was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha and in 2019 to the 17th Lok Sabha by a margin of 578,486 votes, the highest ever victory margin in the history of Delhi.
He has been a member of two high level committees of Parliament, Finance Committee and Estimates Committee. He also served as a member of the Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament and the Standing Committee on Urban Development in his first term as MP. He contested the 2013 assembly elections from Mehrauli Assembly constituency and defeated Delhi Assembly Speaker MP Yoganand Shastri. Parvesh Verma is the son of former Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma.
early life
Parvesh Verma was born in a Hindu Jat family on 7 November 1977 to former Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma and Sahib Kaur. Verma has one brother and three sisters. Verma studied at Delhi Public School, RK Puram and Kirori Mal College. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Fore School of Management. His uncle Azad Singh was the mayor of North Delhi Municipal Corporation and contested the 2013 assembly elections from Mundka assembly constituency on a BJP ticket.
Know the political journey
Verma is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a member of the Delhi BJP election committee for the 2013 assembly elections. In 2014 he won the West Delhi constituency and became a Member of Parliament (MP). He became a member of the Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament and the Standing Committee on Urban Development. He also served on the governing body of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi. Presently he is a member of the Estimates Committee and Finance Committee of the Parliament. Verma was interested in contesting from the West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency in the 2009 general election, despite receiving assurances from party leaders that his name would be considered.
Instead, Janakpuri MLA Jagdish Mukhi contested from West Delhi. A mahapanchayat held in Dwarka on 22 March 2009 “condemned the BJP’s decision to deny ticket to Parvesh”. On 7 November 2013, BJP announced Verma as the party’s candidate from Mehrauli constituency for the 2013 Legislative Assembly election. South Delhi Municipal Corporation Mayor Sarita Chaudhary and senior BJP leader Sher Singh Dagar, who was the BJP candidate from Mehrauli in the 2008 elections, both wanted to contest from the same seat.
Supporters of both candidates opposed Verma’s candidacy. Chaudhary’s supporters protested outside the Delhi BJP headquarters and called Verma an “outsider”. His mother and wife campaigned for him in the constituency. He defeated runner-up Narinder Singh Sejwal of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and outgoing Delhi Assembly MLA and Speaker Yoganand Shastri.
In the 2014 Indian general election, Verma won the election for the West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency by a record margin of 2,68,586 votes. Verma won a second term as West Delhi MP by a record margin of 5.78 lakh votes, defeating Congress’s Mahabal Mishra, who received 2,87,162 votes. Verma broke his own record of winning by the highest margin in Delhi and achieved the sixth highest margin in India. In the 2019 general elections, Verma received 8,65,648 votes out of the total 14,41,601 votes cast on this seat. This is the largest margin won by any Lok Sabha candidate in the history of Delhi.
related disputes
During the 2020 Delhi Assembly election campaign, Verma openly told the people gathered at Shaheen Bagh that if BJP comes to power in Delhi, it will remove him within an hour. He also said that Muslims present in Shaheen Bagh were known for “entering the houses of Hindus, raping our sisters and daughters”. After hosting Home Minister Amit Shah’s meeting with Jat leaders from western UP ahead of the first phase of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Verma made a controversial proposal to Rashtriya Lok Dal’s Jayant Chaudhary for a post-poll alliance with the BJP. And Verma also told media persons that Jayant, who is in alliance with the Samajwadi Party, has “chosen the wrong house”. Verma has also recently called for a ‘complete boycott’ of Muslims at a rally organized by the VHP.