Vijeta Dahiya Caste, Wife, Children, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Nickname	Gulfam
Profession	• Engineer • Assistant at Ministry of External Affairs • Actor • Filmmaker • Politician
Famous for	Becoming spokesman of Cockroach Janata Party (CJP)
Physical Stats
Height (approx.)	5' 8" (173 cm)
Weight (approx.)	65 Kg (143 lbs)
Body Measurements (approx.)	- Chest: 40 inches - Waist: 32 inches - Biceps: 12 inches
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black
Politics
Political Party	Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)
Political Journey	2026: Named as CJP Spokesperson
Personal Life
Date of Birth	13 February
Age (as of 2025)	Years
Birthplace	Nahri, Sonipat, Haryana, India
Zodiac sign	Aquarius
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Sonipat, Haryana, India
School	• Holy Child School, Sonipat • Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram
College/University	Delhi College of Engineering (DCE)
Educational Qualification	Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Production and Industrial Engineering (2009)
Religion	Atheist
Caste	Jat
Hobbies	• Writing poetry • Travelling
Social Media	• Instagram • Facebook • Twitter • YouTube • Blog
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Affairs/Girlfriends	Mamta Lohchab
Marriage Date	18 January 2013
Family
Wife/Spouse	Mamta Lohchab (Lecturer)
Children	Daughter- Hayaat
Parents	Father- (Teacher) Mother- Sushila Devi
Siblings	Brother- Vijay Dahiya (Elder, Advocate) Sister- Nisha
Other Relatives	Sister-in-law- Jyoti Mann (Vijay Dahiya's wife) Nephew- Kabir Maternal Uncle - Mungeshpuria Kunjeyan
Favourites
Music Genre	Bollywood
Singer(s)	Kurt Cobain, Begum Akhtar, Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Mehdi Hassan, Junoon (Band)
Film(s)	Bollywood- Baaton Baaton Mein (1979), Agantuk (1991), Maya Memsaab (1993), Bandit Queen (1994), Taare Zameen Par (2007), Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008) Hollywood- Psycho II (1983), Forrest Gump (1994), Pulp Fiction (1994), Chungking Express (1994), The Boy Who Stopped Talking (1996), Life is Beautiful (1997), American Beauty (1999), All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Hero (2002), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), 3-Iron (2004), Ray (2004), Cinderella Man (2005), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), The Unknown Woman (2006), A Girl Cut in Two (2007), The Song of Sparrows (2008)
Book(s)	Wuthering Heights (1847, Emily Brontë), Madame Bovary (1857, Gustave Flaubert), Misery (1886, Anton Chekhov), The Happy Prince (1888, Oscar Wilde), The Gift of the Magi (1905, O. Henry), The Metamorphosis (1915, Franz Kafka), Report to an Academy (1917, Franz Kafka), The Doll's House (1922, Katherine Mansfield), Nausea (1938, Jean-Paul Sartre), The Old Demon (1939, Pearl S. Buck), Animal Farm (1945, George Orwell), The Respectful Prostitute (1946, Jean-Paul Sartre), 1984 (1949, George Orwell), Aashad Ka Ek Din (1958, Mohan Rakesh), To Kill a Mockingbird (1960, Harper Lee), Laharon Ke Rajhans (1963, Mohan Rakesh), In a Free State (1971, V.S. Naipaul), Diwan-e-Ghalib (Mirza Ghalib), Faiz (Faiz Ahmed Faiz), Zarif Ahmed (Zarif Ahmed), Poems (Nissim Ezekiel), The God of Small Things (1997, Arundhati Roy), The White Tiger (2008, Aravind Adiga)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Vijeta Dahiya

• Vijeta Dahiya is from a farmer’s family. From age of 12, he became interested in theatre.

• He joined Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited in July 2009 as a Business Intelligence Executive for the Demand Requirement Planning module of SAP-APO post his graduation.

• He later secured a government job and served as Assistant at the Ministry of External Affairs to supplement his creative work with a job.
  

  Vijeta Dahiya in 2010

• He worked on another 15 plays, in addition to making two or three short films, during this time, writing and directing independently.

• After resigning from his government job, he moved to Mumbai to become an actor and auditioned extensively, but he wasn’t very fond of the process and decided to learn filmmaking.

• His father didn’t like his choice of being a filmmaker but Vijeta’s mother supported him and he began his career.

• He has also been a translator and assistant for documentary production by Mr. Yoen on child marriage in Rajasthan that aired on Korean national TV.

• He worked in the theatre with a number of organisations and institutions. He gave a film making training program for the volunteers and staff of Vikalp Organisation, Jodhpur.

• He staged street plays in 15 colleges of Sonepat and Panipat to sensitise the people about gender discrimination and female foeticide for Action Aid India’s Goonj project.

• He has directed two plays for Rotary Public School, Gurgaon, A Christmas Carol and Safeena ki Nayi Duniya, based on The Wizard of Oz.
  

  Vijeta Dahiya during a shoot

• Dahiya attended a theatre workshop conducted for the students in Delhi Technological University and wrote, directed and designed a play, Hara Gulab, which was performed during the annual cultural festival, Engifest.

• He conducted a street play on the importance of girl child at a health fair in Solan, Himachal Pradesh, presided over by the Chief Minister for HLFPPT, a Government Organisation.

• Dahiya was an author and director of two Haryanvi movies, Dararein and Opri Paraai. His movie “Dararein” was released through an OTT platform.
  

  A poster of Vijeta Dahiya’s film, Dararein

• He is also the author of two books, Power of Universe and To Hell with That Job.

• He is also a poet (under the pen name Gulfam) and has penned stories, articles and scripts in various genres.

• Dahiya has been known for his association with YouTube creator Dhruv Rathee, working as a researcher and scriptwriter for the videos.

• He took writing samples to Rathee when he saw a call for writers and researchers and from there it went.

• Speaking in interviews, Dahiya has described content creation, the duty of social media influencers and the importance of an informed public discourse in a democracy.

• He is based in New Delhi and has been working under Unmaad Artworks.

• Dahiya was named as one of the spokesmen of the Cockroach Janta Party in June 2026.

• In a post on X, the outfit’s founder Abhijeet Dipke said that Dahiya will take on the party’s faces in their engagements with the public and the media.
  

  Vijeta Dahiya during a CJP event

• The appointment is happening before a scheduled protest in Delhi protesting against alleged leak of NEET paper and improper functioning of CBSE system by Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan.