Yogesh Dahiya

Yogesh Dahiya is a member of the National Executive of the Aam Aadmi Party. A social activist, he is a member of the Saharanpur Sugarcane Farmers Forum and a farmers' leader in western Uttar Pradesh working for the rights of sugarcane farmers. He contested the Lok Sabha election from Saharanpur against BSP candidate Jagdish Singh Rana. He however drastically lose in this election and managed to secure just 3065 votes (0.25% of total votes cast).

Education & Career

Yogesh completed his B.Sc. in Botany, Zoology and Chemistry from Chaudhary Charan Singh University in 1987. He has been very ACTIVE in raising the problems of sugarcane farmers in western Uttar Pradesh and raising the voices of farmers to help them get fair prices of their sugarcane crops. In past he has raised the issue of improper compensation by PGCIL for barring farmers from doing any permanent construction and agro-forestry activities on their land.

Controversies

Yogesh Dahiya, came in police scanner after the Saharanpur police registered FIRs against him in connection with a scam of Rs 300 crore in acquisition of the land from the farmers.The petitioners had alleged him, along with the then ADM Randhir Singh Chauhan and GAIL AGM K P Singh for siphoning off over Rs 300 crore by not paying the adequate compensation to the farmers while acquiring the land for the GAIL pipeline.