Bharat Bhushan Ashu (born 20 March 1971) is an Indian National Congress politician from Punjab.
He is two-time MLA representing the Ludhiana West Assembly constituency and he was Cabinet Minister of Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, Government of Punjab.
Ashu started his political career when he was elected as a Municipal Councillor in the year 1997[1] from ward number 48 of Ludhiana.
[6] In 2022, he lost the election from Ludhiana West to AAP Candidate Gurpreet Bassi Gogi by more than 7500 votes.
[8] In February 2019, Audio recordings of Ashu threatening and blackmailing the then DSP & Superintending engineer of Improvement trust went viral.