Haryana Assembly Polls: Rohita Rewri, Panipat (city) MLA

Elected councillor from ward 9 of Panipat MC in 2013, Rohita got BJP ticket in 2014 and won Panipat (city) assembly seat with the biggest margin of 53,721.

Rohita Rewri is the BJP MLA from Panipat (city) assembly segment of Haryana.

Elected councillor from ward 9 of Panipat MC in 2013, Rohita got BJP ticket in 2014 and won Panipat (city) assembly seat with the biggest margin of 53,721.

Educational qualification: BA

Assets declared in 2014: ₹8.97 crore

Moveable: ₹5.39 crore

Immovable: ₹3.58 crore

Constituency primer:

Located on the Haryana-UP border, Panipat (city) constituency was created after delimitation in 2009. The constituency known for textile units and producing quality blankets, it has a sizeable population of migrant labourers and factories. With this, maintaining cleanliness and checking industrial pollution remain major challenges.

Electoral history:

2014: Rohita of BJP defeated Virender Kumar Shah of Congress by 53,721 votes.

2009: Balbir Pal Shah of Congress defeated Sanjay Bhatia of BJP by 12,159

How she performed:

Rohita is being credited for the construction of community centres, old age homes, a new building for civil hospital, facelift of historical Hali lake and a bus stand in Siwah village. However, she failed to meet the long-pending demands like managing traffic, covering of drains and shifting of vegetable market. The industrial city also witnessed poor law and order situation.

Quote of MLA:

My focus was to improve basic facilities, beautification and security of people of Panipat city. We have undertaken projects worth ₹600 crore. If I get another opportunity to serve people, I would work to improve education and medical facilities.

By the way:

She got most of the projects inaugurated by a girl child or a woman.