{{short description|Indian activist}} {{Multiple issues| {{refimprove|date=April 2025}} {{autobiography|date=January 2025}}}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Use Indian English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Adarsh Shastri | image = AdarshShastriDP.JPG | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1973|10|16}} | birth_place = New Delhi, India | occupation = Political & Social Activist | party = Indian National Congress (2020-Present) Aam Aadmi Party (2013-2020) | spouse = Monika Shastri | alma_mater = Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management<br />Hindu College, Delhi<br />St. Columba's School, Delhi | death_date = | death_place = | children = | parents = Anil Shastri and Manju Shastri | years_active = | office = MLA of Delhi Legislative Assembly | term_start = 11 February 2015 | term_end = 11 February 2020 | constituency = Dwarka | predecessor = Parduymn Rajput | successor = Vinay Mishra }}
'''Adarsh Shastri''' (born 16 October 1973) is an Indian politician. He is a former senior official of the Aam Aadmi Party and represented the Delhi assembly constituency of Dwarka.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-02-10/news/59005399_1_delhi-polls-lal-bahadur-shastri-dwarka |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213124835/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-02-10/news/59005399_1_delhi-polls-lal-bahadur-shastri-dwarka |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 February 2015 |accessdate=13 February 2015 |newspaper=Economic Times |title=Delhi Polls: Lal Bahadur Shastri's grandson Adarsh Shastri wins in Dwarka|date=10 February 2015}}</ref> He left AAP and joined Indian National Congress in 2020.
Prior to his political career, Shastri worked in the corporate sector for 17 years, including the post of head of sales at Apple India.<ref name="intoday2013">{{cite news |title=Lal Bahadur Shastri's grandson Adarsh Shastri quits Rs 1 crore job at Apple to join Aam Aadmi Party 2013 |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/north/story/lal-bahadur-shastris-grandson-adarsh-shastri-quits-rs-1-crore-job-at-apple-to-join-aam-aadmi-party-222278-2013-12-27 |newspaper=India Today Online |year=2013}}</ref>
== Early life == Adarsh Shastri is the son of Anil Shastri, and Manju Shastri, and is married to Monika Shastri. The couple has twin sons. His father was a former Finance Minister in the Government of India and was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha from Varanasi in 1989. Shastri is an alumnus of St. Columba's School, Delhi and Hindu College, University of Delhi. He has a master's degree in business administration from Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management. He is a grandson of Lal Bahadur Shastri.{{cn|date=April 2025}}
==Political career== Shastri left his job as the sales head for Apple India in 2013 and joined the Aam Aadmi Party.<ref name="intoday2013"/> He did not join Indian National Congress as he felt he would not be able to fit into the party.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/general-elections-2014/congress-has-strayed-from-shastris-path-of-probity-says-grandson_924444.html|title=Congress has strayed from Shastri's path of probity, says grandson|publisher= zeenews.india.com |year=2014}}</ref> Shastri was a co-convenor of the overseas wing of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP),{{when|date=April 2025}} responsible for overseas organisational affairs.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
He contested the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election from Dwarka (Delhi Assembly constituency) and got 79,729 votes out of around {{formatnum:135000}} votes polled, defeating the sitting Member of Legislative Assembly, Pradyuman Rajput of the BJP by 39,366 votes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseU0533.htm?ac=33|title=Election Commission of India|access-date=18 February 2015|archive-date=18 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218165658/http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseU0533.htm?ac=33|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | title=MEMBERS OF THE SIXTH ASSEMBLY | url=http://delhiassembly.nic.in/aspfile/listmembers_VIth_Assembly.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150531143901/http://delhiassembly.nic.in/aspfile/listmembers_VIth_Assembly.htm | access-date=2025-01-25 | archive-date=2015-05-31}}</ref>
Shastri led AAP's point-based initiative Delhi Dialogue, along with Ashish Khetan, Meera Sanyal, Preeti Sharma Menon.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/aap-to-launch-delhi-dialogue-campaign/article6590889.ece|title=AAP launches Delhi Dialogue|work= thehindu|year=2014|last1=Sikdar|first1=Shubhomoy}}</ref> The AAP government subsequently expanded the concept by constituting the Delhi Dialogue Commission.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/govt-sets-up-delhi-dialogue-commission/article6947899.ece|title=Govt. Sets up Delhi Dialogue Commission|newspaper=The Hindu|date=March 2015|last1=Ashok|first1=Sowmiya}}</ref>
Shastri was a member of the AAP's National Manifesto Drafting Committee for the Loksabha Elections 2014, and was also in charge of the Manifesto Drafting Committee<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-02-09/news/47168712_1_vision-document-adarsh-shastri-aap|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323225230/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-02-09/news/47168712_1_vision-document-adarsh-shastri-aap|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 March 2014|title = Business News Today: Read Latest Business news, India Business News Live, Share Market & Economy News}}</ref> and a member of the Candidate Selection Committee of the Uttar Pradesh Chapter of AAP in Loksabha Elections 2014. He also contested Parliamentary Elections 2014 from Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh as a candidate for the AAP.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://candidates.aamaadmiparty.org/adarsh-shastri.html|title=Adarsh Shastri - Aam Aadmi Party's Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, LS - 2014 Candidate|publisher=Aam Aadmi Party|website=aamaadmiparty.org|year=2014|access-date=19 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129035419/http://candidates.aamaadmiparty.org/adarsh-shastri.html|archive-date=29 November 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He left AAP and joined Indian National Congress in 2020.{{cn|date=April 2025}}
==Other activities== He has been a member of the board of governors of Lal Bahadur Shastri Educational Society.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.lbsim.ac.in/about-lbsib.aspx?mpgid%3D42%26pgid1%3D45%26pgidtrail%3D48 | title=Board of Governors | access-date=2014-11-19 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141124003433/http://lbsim.ac.in/about-lbsib.aspx?mpgid=42&pgid1=45&pgidtrail=48 | archive-date=24 November 2014 | df=dmy}}</ref>
He is also the national secretary of the Indian Cellular Association, the industry body of the mobile industry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ica-ind.org/about_ica.html |title=Welcome to ICA |access-date=2014-11-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105120211/http://ica-ind.org/about_ica.html |archive-date=5 November 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref> He acted as a mediator between traders and handset makers to curb online discounts to online sellers like Amazon.com, Flipkart and Snapdeal by brands such as Samsung, Apple and Nokia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-10-06/news/54691396_1_adarsh-shastri-lal-bahadur-shastri-samsung-india|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007054059/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-10-06/news/54691396_1_adarsh-shastri-lal-bahadur-shastri-samsung-india|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 October 2014|title=AAP leader Adarsh Shastri to mediate between traders & handset makers to curb online discounts.|publisher= ET Bureau, Writankar Mukherjee & Ritika Chopra |year=2014}}</ref>
==Alumni and associations== * National Secretary, Indian Cellular Association (ICA)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ica-ind.org/contact_us.html |title=Welcome to ICA |access-date=2014-11-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129082341/http://www.ica-ind.org/contact_us.html |archive-date=29 November 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref> * Trustee, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Memorial Trust * Member of Governing Board, Lal Bahadur Shastri Educational Society * Member of Governing Body, Lal Bahadur Shastri Seva Niketan * Member, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM)<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://nmcc.nic.in/pdf/List_Sectoral_Associations.pdf | title=List of associations: Assocham | access-date=2014-11-19 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113193704/http://nmcc.nic.in/pdf/List_Sectoral_Associations.pdf | archive-date=13 November 2014 | df=dmy}}</ref> * Member, Advisory Cell of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI){{Citation needed|date=January 2025}} * Member, Advisory Body of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII){{Citation needed|date=January 2025}} * Member, National Geographic Society, USA{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
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