Somnath Bharti

Somnath Bharti Biography

Somnath Bharti was born on 10th May 1974 at Hisua in Nawada town of Bihar state in the family of Sitaram Bharti. He had his basic schooling in his home town Nawada and Secandary schooling from Patna. He had his Masters degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and also a degree in law from the Delhi University. Somnath Bharti was interested in politics right from his college days as he served as Alumni Association of IIT, Delhi as Secretary for 2007-08 and later as IIT Delhi Senator in 2008. He was the president of Delhi Alumni Association in 2012-13.

Somnath Bharti started IT firm Madgen Solutions in the year 2000. Here it would be interesting to note that The Spamhaus Project accused Bharti of spamming on behalf of TopSites LLC, listing him in the Register of Known Spam Operations as one of the top spam operators in the world. which was a serious offense but Somnath Bharti insisted that he was doing his work within the ruls and all mails sent by his company followed all laws and regulations.

In the 2000s, Somnath Bharti ran a Delhi-based IT firm by the name Madgen Solutions. He came into limelight due to the charges fixed by The Spamhaus Project that accused him of spamming on behalf of their clients. Later it was found that Somnath Bharti was guilty of spamming. It was also revealed by the lawyers that Bharti along with two others paid Balsam and made a declaration that he was involved in such a case of spamming.

Somnath Bharti is currently an Aam Aadmi Party MLA from the Malviya Nagar constituency in the Delhi state and a lawyer at the Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court. He was a minister of Law, Tourism, Administrative Reforms, Art & Culture in 2013 when AAP party took charge in 2013.

It would be worth mentioning that Somnath Bharti along with residents of the Khirkee Extension area of Delhi had a row with foreign resident about a drug and prostitution racket said to be run by African nationals. He is again in news on a domestic abuse case at the complaint of his wife Lipika. 

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Updated: October 08, 2015