Agnihotri was born in India, and graduated from Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science.
[3] However, Zwozdesky had left the Liberal caucus in July 1998, and joined the Progressive Conservatives a month later, and it was under their banner that he was seeking re-election.
Agnihotri won a narrow victory, finishing 199 votes ahead of Progressive Conservative Gurnam Dodd.
[5] In 2007, Agnihotri sponsored the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (Repeal of Ministerial Briefing Exemption) Amendment Act, would have eliminated ministerial briefings from the list of documents exempt from public disclosure under the province's access to information provisions.
[8] He then asked if these groups included any who had made donations to the leadership campaigns of Ed Stelmach, Dave Hancock, Lyle Oberg, or Ted Morton—all of whom were cabinet ministers and all of whom had refused to disclose full lists of donors from their leadership campaigns:[8] "Can this minister assure this house that groups receiving this special treatment are not secret friends of top Tories?