Parvesh Verma Age, Caste, Wife, Children, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Parvesh Verma

• Parvesh Verma was born into a political family. His father, Sahib Singh Verma, was a union minister in the Government of India and later became Delhi Chief Minister (CM).
  

  Parvesh Verma’s father and his elder sister, Rachna, when she was a child

• Since he was born after 2 sisters, his grandmother exclaimed, “Bete ka pravesh ho gaya (Son has entered the family)”, thus his father named him Parvesh.

• His family name (gotra) is Lakra, but when his father contested elections from Keshav Puram for the first time, he changed his last name to Verma, to not give any indication of his clan or caste, which he also continued.

• He once went to Mumbai with his family at the age of 5-6 years old. He got lost and was reunited with his family after a day.

• When he was a kid, he once went to a Jagran (a Hindu vigil) with his family. Around 11:30 pm, his mother brought him and his siblings back. They had gone only 50 meters away when a blast took place around the area where they were sitting, killing one and injuring many other people.

• During his teenage years, he was playing cricket in a park. He went to pick up the ball while fielding and grabbed the railing near the boundary. He got an electric shock for a few seconds before a passerby saved him with a wooden log.

• While studying in 7th-8th standard, he was going on a trip with his family. During the night, he fell from the window, but no one on the bus noticed.

• A car coming behind the bus saw him falling and handed him back to his family.

• He once got ill with dengue and his platelets dropped to 10,000. Even after receiving platelets from several donors, his condition did not improve.

• His father then sought the help of Baba Ramdev, who sent a potion from Haridwar that helped him recover.
• He changed 7 schools in 12 years, but not because of failing or any problems. His father knew the owners of many schools so whenever an owner insisted that Parvesh should study at his school, his father used to send him to that school to study.

• When he was studying at Tyagi Public School, he once got very low marks in a class test. His teacher told him to get his result signed by his father. But he got frightened and forged his father’s signature.

• His teacher caught it and told his father who scolded him for this mischievous act.

• He once went to his village Mundka where his grandfather and uncle used to smoke bidi and hookah. Out of curiosity, he once smoked bidi. But his father found it and scolded him after which he never repeated this again.

• He was a studious child and often got 80-90% marks in exams.

• He was an active sports player during his school and college days and played lawn tennis, table tennis, football, and volleyball.

• During his teenage years, he became a member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and later became Shakha Pramukh in Keshav Puram.

• During his teenage years, he used to keep long hair, which his father didn’t like.

• Once, he was travelling with his family from Manali to Kullu. They were 20 km away from Kullu when his father said they would reach Kullu in 30 minutes, but Parvesh said it would take 40-45 minutes.

• His father then bet that if they reached in 30 minutes, he would trim his hair. Though they didn’t reach in 30 minutes, his father turned back the clock and made him cut his long hair.

• He was interested in politics and became the national executive member of Delhi Janata Yuva Morcha.
  

  Parvesh Verma (left) with his father, Sahib Singh Verma, and wrestler-actor Dara Singh during a program

• Parvesh once told his father that he wanted to contest MLA elections, but his father scolded him as he didn’t want any family member to join politics. So, Parvesh dropped his plan.

• He later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and started actively participating in politics after his father died in a road accident in 2007.
  

  Parvesh Verma (in white kurta) during an election meeting

• He wanted to contest the 2009 general elections, but the BJP gave the ticket to then-Janakpuri MLA, Jagdish Mukhi.
  

  Parvesh Verma in his early 20s

• Before the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections, he went to meet then-Delhi head Nitin Gadkari. He wanted to contest from Mundka or any adjoining seat, but Gadkari asked him if he wanted to become a politician or a leader.
  

  Parvesh Verma before he contested the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections

• Verma replied that he wanted to become a leader. So, Gadkari told him to contest from Mehrauli, a seat the BJP had never won. Verma agreed and won the election.

• In the 2014 general elections, he won the West Delhi Lok Sabha seat by 2,68,586 votes, a record victory margin in the general election in Delhi.
  

  Parvesh Verma campaigning during the 2014 general elections

• In the 2019 general elections, he won the same seat by 5,78,486 votes, breaking his record for the highest victory margin in Delhi and the 6th highest in India.
  

  Parvesh Verma with Narendra Modi (left) during political campaigning

• On 29 February 2020, he tweeted that he would donate his one-month salary as a Member of Parliament (MP) to the families of the Delhi Police Head Constable Ratan Lal and IB officer Ankit Sharma, who died in the 2020 Delhi Riots.

• He didn’t contest the 2024 general elections and claimed that PM Narendra Modi and HM Amit Shah wanted him to focus on the 2025 Delhi elections.

• In 2024, he revealed his condition for marriage to Swati Verma, daughter of the former Union Minister and BJP leader from Madhya Pradesh, Vikram Verma. He wanted 5 children. Swati thought for a few minutes but accepted his condition after which they got married. However, the couple only has 3 children, all born through C-section (caesarian), following which the doctor told them not to plan for a 4th child as only 3 children are born through C-section.

• Before the 2025 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections, she also filed a nomination against Arvind Kejriwal as a backup candidate.
  

  Poster of Parvesh Verma during the 2025 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections

• He became famous as the giant killer or giant slayer after defeating AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal and Sandeep Dikshit, the son of former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit in the 2025 Delhi Legislative elections. He defeated Kejriwal by 4,013 votes.

• He is also known for his social service and runs 3 NGOs, Rashtriya Swabhiman, Gramin Swabhiman and Rashtriya Muslim Swabhiman.
  

  Parvesh Verma during a program of his NGO

• He has helped to rehabilitate 4 villages in Odisha after the 1999 cyclone and 2 villages in Kutch, Gujarat after the 2000 earthquake.

• After the Kargil War in 1999, he gave an honorarium of 1 lakh to the families of all 260 martyrs.

• He has organised various mass marriage programs for poor girls, literacy programs, and sports tournaments.
  

  Parvesh Verma during a charity event

• He has held many important government positions, such as serving on the governing body of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.

• He once claimed that he is a good listener and speaks very often.

• In a 2024 interview, he revealed that he was a very spiritual, emotional, and religious person. He also believes in destiny.