Know AAP minister Somnath Bharti, who holds IIT degree

As a lawyer, he fought for social causes through his profession and dragged issues dealing with societal matters to the court to bring them to justice.

An active member during Jan Lokpal movement, this IIT alumnus fought for justice for the innocent masses.

“After the Delhi gang-rape case, Delhi Police tried to falsely convict around eight innocent young boys, and Bharti fought for those boys and helped them get justice,” the AAP party website said.

Walia, an MA in political science from the Lady Shri Ram College here, held the Social Welfare portfolio in the previous Delhi government. She was upstaged by this first-timer whose one-year-old party fought the election on “pro-people, anti-corruption” poll plank.

Bharti, who has also served as a president of an IIT-alumni association, took oath as a cabinet minister at the historic Ramlila Maidan, the venue of anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare rallies, whose demands for passage of the Jan Lokpal Bill thrusted Kejriwal into national prominence before he took a plunge in mainstream politics.

The other cabinet ministers who took oath along with Kejriwal are Manish Sisodia, Rakhi Birla, Saurabh Bhardwaj, Girish Soni and Satendra Jain.