Jitendra Bardwaj

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Jitendra Bardwaj (born 1937) is an independent political campaigner in the United Kingdom.

Jiten Bardwaj has contested five parliamentary by-elections in what began as an attempt to clear his name after he was convicted of assaulting a police officer outside the Houses of Parliament. He has stood in Merton in 1982, Darlington in 1983, Chesterfield in 1984 (won by Tony Benn), Brent East in 2003 and Leicester South in July 2004.

As well as campaigning against what he believes is his personal mis-treatment by, and general flaws in, the British legal system, Bardwaj campaigns for the rights of ethnic minorities and for the introduction of Hindu yoga and meditation techniques in British schools. He was in the Indian army for a few months, before being pensioned off as a result of rheumatic fever, and lived in Israel prior to settling in the United Kingdom. He was critical of Sonia Gandhi's near appointment as Prime Minister of India.