Gaurav Bhatia (Politician) Age, Wife, Family, Biography & More

Bio/Wiki
Profession(s)	• Politician • Senior Advocate
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	in centimeters- 177 cm in meters- 1.77 m in feet & inches- 5’ 10”
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black
Politics
Political Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Positions held	• 2012: Senior Advocate of Supreme Court of India • 2017: National Spokesperson Bharatiya Janata Party
Personal Life
Date of Birth	16 February 1977 (Wednesday)
Age (as of 2024)	47 Years
Birthplace	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Zodiac sign	Pisces
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
College/University	• La Martinière College, Lucknow • University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, United States
Educational Qualification(s) [1]The Print	• Law degree from Lucknow University • Undergraduate degree from Bridgeport University, a private American institute.
Controversy	Unpleasant Remarks About Reena Gupta: In September 2023, Gaurav Bhatia was accused of making unpleasant remarks about Reena Gupta, an Indian politician and lawyer, during a debate show on a news channel. Reena later addressed the matter in an interview and claimed that she had came to Nizamuddin Police Station to register a complaint against Gaurav, but the police officials refused to do so. [2]Outlook
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Family
Wife/Spouse
Parents	Father- Virendra Bhatia (former Samajwadi Party member) Mother- Saroj Bhatia
Siblings	He has one sister.

Some Lesser Known Facts About Gaurav Bhatia

• Gaurav Bhatia is a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India. In 2017, he was appointed as the National Spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

• In 2012, he was appointed as an additional advocate general (AGG) for the Akhilesh Yadav government; however, in 2016, his position was revoked by the Uttar Pradesh government. During the same time, he worked with the Samajwadi Party as its National Spokesperson and the National President of the Samajwadi Party’s Legal Wing.

• Soon after joining the Supreme Court of India as an advocate, he was appointed as the Bar Association’s Honorary Secretary of the Supreme Court from 2015 to 2017. He then worked as an Advocate-on-Record of the Supreme Court of India before being designated as a Senior Advocate.
  

  Gaurav Bhatia posing outside a court

• His father was a former member of the Rajya Sabha and also served as an Advocate General of Uttar Pradesh.

• On 2 April 2017, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party as its National Spokesperson after resigning from the Samajwadi Party on 5 February 2017. He claimed in a media conference that the Samajwadi Party had failed to protect the interests of the legal community in Uttar Pradesh.
  

  Gaurav Bhatia while joining BJP in 2017

• As a national spokesperson of a political party in India, Gaurav Bhatia often appears on several national television news channels to participate in political discussions and debates. In November 2018, in a media debate on India TV, Gaurav Bhatia told his co-panellist and Congress spokesperson Ragini Nayak that if she called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a thief, then he would call Rahul Gandhi a peon. Gaurav said,
  

  if she called PM Modi a “chor (thief)”, he reserved the right to call Rahul Gandhi a “chaprasi”. Rahul Gandhi a “khandani chor”, and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra “the mother of future Congress presidents.”

  

  Gaurav Bhatia on a news channel debate

• In January 2022, Gaurav Bhatia was trolled on several social media platforms when one of his old videos in which he blamed RSS and BJP for igniting communal riots in India went viral. ^[3]Jansatta)

• On 13 July 2022, he came into the limelight, when he made severe allegations against former vice-president of India Hamid Ansari that during the Ansari and the Congress rule in India, a Pakistani journalist named Nusrat Mirza visited India five times and collected some sensitive information from India and passed it to Pakistan’s spy agency ISI. ((Zee News Bhatia cited,
  

  Mirza’s purported comments that he had visited India on Ansari’s invitations and also met him, but the former vice president rejected the claims.”

  In a response to Bhatia’s allegations, Hamid Ansari said that the invitations sent to the foreign delegates were on the advice of the Government of India or the Ministry of External Affairs. He added that he never invited Nusrat Mirza to India. Hamid said,

  I had inaugurated the Conference on Terrorism, on December 11, 2010, the ‘International Conference of Jurists on International Terrorism and Human Rights’. As is the normal practice, the list of invitees would have been drawn by the organisers. I never invited him or met him.”