12 Facts About Bharat Agnihotri

Bharat Agnihotri was born on April 9,1953 and is a Canadian politician and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Bharat Agnihotri represented the constituency of Edmonton-Ellerslie, sitting as a Liberal.

Bharat Agnihotri was elected in the 2004 election, but was defeated in the 2008 election.

Bharat Agnihotri first sought election in the 2001 provincial election, when he ran as a Liberal in Edmonton Mill Creek against incumbent Gene Zwozdesky.

Zwozdesky had been elected as a Liberal the previous election, and Bharat Agnihotri had volunteered for his campaign.

The next election, Bharat Agnihotri ran in Edmonton Ellerslie, which had been vacated by Liberal Debby Carlson, who had resigned to run in the 2004 federal election.

Bharat Agnihotri won a narrow victory, finishing 199 votes ahead of Progressive Conservative Gurnam Dodd.

Bharat Agnihotri sought re-election in the 2008 election, but was defeated by the Progressive Conservative candidate.

In 2007, Bharat Agnihotri sponsored the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act, would have eliminated ministerial briefings from the list of documents exempt from public disclosure under the province's access to information provisions.

Bharat Agnihotri began by noting that, despite a rule that unmatched grants could not exceed ten thousand dollars, forty-three groups had received unmatched grants exceeding that amount.

Bharat Agnihotri asked Agnihotri three times to apologize and, after Agnihotri refused, he named him.

Bharat Agnihotri was not to be allowed back into the Legislature until he apologized and all members of the assembly agreed to re-admit him.