New Delhi, Jul 26 (PTI) Nirmal Jain, the new chairperson of the Delhi Minorities Commission, is a former mayor and a veteran BJP leader with five decades association with the RSS.
Jain became the first non-Muslim head of the commission formed in 2000.
Delhi government has reconstituted the Delhi Minorities Commission as well as Delhi Commission for Women (DCW). While Jain has been appointed the head of the Minorities Commission, Lata Gupta will serve as chairperson of DCW, said a Delhi CMO statement on Sunday.
The Minorities Commission had been headless for three years after Jain’s predecessor Zakir Khan stepped down in 2023.
Jain, 70, in his profile shared that he was a volunteer of the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS) for 50 years, and also associated with Jansangh, precursor of the BJP, as treasurer of its Shahdara district unit.
In 1977, he served as a Vistarak of RSS in Jammu. Jain was associated with Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad, an affiliate of RSS, and took part in student politics at Delhi University, reads his profile.
Jain has been associated with the BJP since inception of the party in 1980 and served as president of Shahdara district. In 2007, he won civic body polls from Shahdara ward in erstwhile East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC).
He served as Leader of House in EDMC from 2018 to 2020 and became mayor of East Delhi in 2021.
Jain, a Commerce and Law Graduate of DU, has a family business.
The Delhi Minorities Commission was set up under the Delhi Minorities Commission Act, 1999, passed by the Delhi Legislative Assembly on December 24, 1999, to safeguard the rights and interests of the Minority communities.
Under the Act, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi have been notified as Minority communities. The “Jain” community was notified as Minority Community in the NCT of Delhi through a notification dated October 13, 2008.
The commission comprises a chairperson and two members from the minority communities of Delhi, nominated by the Delhi government. Kuldeep Singh and Mohammad Harron have been appointed its members. PTI VIT VN VN
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