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S. C. Vats
Personal details
NationalityIndia
Political partyIndian National Congress till 2015.Then Bhartiya Janta Party
SpouseBimla Vats
Children2
Residence(s)Delhi, India
Alma materAU Tibbia College[1][2]
OccupationPolitician, Clinician
AwardsBest Legislator Award, Delhi Assembly constituency, 2006
Websitescvats.in[3]

S. C. Vats (born September 1945) is a veteran Indian politician and an educationist who currently heads the governing body of Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, imparting education in the field of Law, Journalism and Information Technology. He is a former member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly Shakur Basti and won the elections twice in 1998 and 2003 contesting as an Indian National Congress candidate.In 2008 he lost to BJP'S Shayam Lal Garg by a margin of 4000 votes. In 2015, Dr S C Vats contested as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate and lost to Aam Aadmi Party's candidate Satyendra Kumar Jain by a margin of 3133 votes from Shakur Basti (Delhi Assembly constituency). Dr Vats has also been Member of Delhi Metropolitan Council from 1983–1989.[4] Dr Vats has chaired Governing body of half a dozen of reputed National Institutes with distinction.[5][6]

He is an initiated disciple of Ramakrishna Mission and tries to practice the precepts as preached by Swami Vivekananda to serve "God" in Man, not withstanding his caste, creed, religion and region.

In 2015, he was booked under Sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 376 (rape) of IPC for allegedly molesting and sexually assaulting a woman while she was attached with vivekananda institute of professional studies of which Mr. Vats is chairperson in Delhi. [7]

Political career

Dr S. C. Vats entered politics in 1970s. He is a former member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly. Dr S. C. Vats has won the Best Legislator Award[8] for the year 2006 conferred by Hon'ble Speaker of Lok Sabha Sh. Somnath Chatterjee.

Dr S. C. Vats switched to Bhartiya Janata Party on 1 January 2015 citing an ‘ideological vacuum’ in Congress.[9][10]. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), under the chairmanship of Dr. S. C. Vats, in Delhi Assembly had indicted Sheila Dikshit government over privatisation of power. The Delhi Assembly had unanimously passed the Vats Committee report recommending a CBI probe into the privatisation of power and the alleged dubious role of the Core Committee members comprising senior bureaucrats that had negotiated the power privatisation process.[11][12][13]

References

  1. ^ "Dr S. C. Vats Education".
  2. ^ "Dr S. C. Vats Alma Mater".
  3. ^ "Dr S. C. Vats Website".
  4. ^ "Delhi Metropolitan Council".
  5. ^ "Dr S. C. Vats Official Website".
  6. ^ "IIM Raipur Souvenir" (PDF).
  7. ^ "BJP leader SC Vats booked for sexually assaulting a woman".
  8. ^ "The Best Legislator Award 2006".
  9. ^ "Dr S. C. Vats Joined BJP".
  10. ^ "Dr S. C. Vats Joined BJP".
  11. ^ "Privatization Of Power".
  12. ^ "The PAC Report" (PDF).
  13. ^ "Delhi Government Broke Rules For Privatization".
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