Who is Punjab AAP MLA Jaswant Gajjan Majra, arrested by ED in a bank fraud case?

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on November 6 “picked up” Punjab AAP MLA Jaswant Singh Gajjan Majra, according to a party leader. There was no immediate confirmation from the ED on the claim by the AAP leader, who wanted to remain anonymous.

When contacted about reports on Gajjan Majra's "detention", AAP's Punjab spokesperson Malvinder Singh Kang said, "It is definitely an old case before he joined the Aam Aadmi Party. But the way the ED acted with haste during a public meeting, it raises questions of the action taken by the ED.…" Gajjan Majra could not be immediately contacted.

Kang said Gajjan Majra was facing a case before joining the AAP.

In May last year, the CBI conducted raids at premises linked to Gajjan Majra in connection with an alleged bank fraud of Rs 40 crore. In September last year, the ED conducted raids at several premises linked to Gajjan Majra as part of a money laundering probe linked to the alleged bank loan fraud.

The ED team had then seized Rs 32 lakh cash, some mobile phones, and hard drives after its raids.

Who is Jaswant Singh Gajjan Majra?

A teacher by profession, Jaswant Singh Gajjan Majra won the 2022 assembly elections representing the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from the Amargarh Assembly constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly. He won the seat by defeating Simranjit Singh Mann of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) with a margin of 6,043 votes. He is a Post Graduate, M.Phil in History from Punjab University, Patiala. Majra contested on the ticket of the Lok Insaf party from the Amargarh constituency in 2017.

AAP MLA from Amargarh Prof. Jaswant Singh Gajjan Majra was nominated as the Senate member in Punjabi University Patiala in August 2023. He is a member of the Punjab Assembly's Committee on Agriculture and Committee on Co-operation.