Suresh Chand Vats is a veteran Indian politician and an educationist who currently heads the governing body of Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, imparting education in the field of Law, Journalism and Information Technology. He is a former member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly Shakur Basti and won the elections twice, in 1998 and 2003 contesting as an Indian National Congress candidate. In 2008 he lost to BJP's Shayam Lal Garg by a margin of 4000 votes. In 2015, S. C. Vats contested as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate and lost to Aam Aadmi Party's candidate Satyendra Kumar Jain by a margin of 3,133 votes from Shakur Basti. Vats has also been Member of Delhi Metropolitan Council from 1983 to 1989. He has chaired the governing bodies of half a dozen reputed National Institutes with distinction.