The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) candidate from East Delhi parliamentary constituency, Maheish Girri (39) filed his nomination papers on Thursday. In his signed affidavit submitted before the Returning Officer (RO), Girri declared a total annual income of Rs6,91,309. He has Rs15,860 cash in hand while he has deposited Rs27,265 in his bank account. Apart from this he possesses gold, jewellery, sculptures and other valuables worth Rs52,16,375. Girri has no movable or immovable property in his name. He lives at C-330 Vivek Vihar and has been enrolled from Shahdara in the electoral list. Girri has studied up to Std X from Maharashtra Board and never studied further.
Girri has been fielded by the BJP to take on Sandeep Dikshit, the two-term Member of Parliament (MP). Girri filed his nominations before the RO Niharika Roy, who is also the Deputy Commissioner of East District. State BJP president
Dr Harsh Vardhan was present during Girri’s filing of the nomination. In all, eight nomination papers were filed for this seat on Thursday and till date 11 candidates have filed their nomination papers.
Girri’s candidature did not surprise many as his name was doing the rounds. With Delhi president Harsh Vardhan being fielded from Chandni Chowk seat to take on Union law Minister Kapil Sibal, Girri managed to wrangle the seat. lal Bihari Tiwari, who won this seat thrice on BJP ticket and Baikunth lal Sharma Prem who won twice were not in the contention.
Girri is a leading social activist and youth leader. He has also been International Director, Art of living Foundation. In the year 2010, Maheish Girri in coordination with the Art of living Foundation launched the Meri Dilli Meri Yamuna movement inspiring citizens to do their bit to clean the Yamuna. He has conducted over 108 medical camps as well as 151 free eye and ear camps across slums of East Delhi with a vision of making East Delhi Best Delhi. There are over 2.5 lakh followers of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in East Delhi and Girri has been conducting camps in the slums integrate those from the lower strata of society.