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.[1] 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.[2]
Shastri left his job as the sales head for Apple India in 2013 and joined the Aam Aadmi Party.[2] He did not join Indian National Congress as he felt he would not be able to fit into the party.[3] Shastri was a co-convenor of the overseas wing of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP),[when?] responsible for overseas organisational affairs.[citation needed]
Shastri led AAP's point-based initiative Delhi Dialogue, along with Ashish Khetan, Meera Sanyal, Preeti Sharma Menon.[6] The AAP government subsequently expanded the concept by constituting the Delhi Dialogue Commission.[7]
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[8] 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.[9]
