Nand Gopal Gupta Explained

Nand Gopal Gupta
Residence:Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India
Office:Minister for Industrial development, Export Promotion, NRI, Investment Promotion in Government of Uttar Pradesh
Term Start:March 2017
Constituency2:Prayagraj South
Office2:MLA in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Term Start2:March 2017
Predecessor2:Haji Parvej Ahmad
Constituency3:Prayagraj South
Term Start3:March 2007
Term End3:March 2012
Predecessor3:Keshari Nath Tripathi
Successor3:Haji Parvej Ahmad
Party:Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse:Abhilasha Gupta
Website:http://nandgopalguptanandi.in
Otherparty:Bahujan Samaj Party,Indian National Congress

Nand Gopal Gupta, also known as Nandi,[1] is a Cabinet Minister, Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Early life

Gupta hails from Prayagraj and was born to Suresh Chandra Gupta. He passed High School in the year 1989 from the Uttar Pradesh board.[2]

Political career

In 2007, Gupta was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from the Prayagraj South Assembly constituency as a candidate of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). In the 2012 assembly elections, he was defeated by Samajwadi Party candidate Haji Parvej Ahmad in the Prayagraj South seat. In the national elections of 2014, he sought election to the Lok Sabha as an Indian National Congress candidate from Prayagraj but lost. In 2017, he was elected to the Uttar Pradesh assembly from Prayagraj South Assembly constituency for the BJP.

At present he is Cabinet Minister of Minority Affairs, Political Pension and Civil Aviation in the BJP-led Government of Uttar Pradesh.

In July 2020, a First Information Report (FIR) was filed against Gupta alleging that he forcefully had his people paint all the houses saffron along with pictures of Hindu deities in his colony without obtaining the consent of house owners or the residents.[3]

Personal life

Gupta is married to Abhilasha Gupta, who is also a politician.[4] He was seriously injured in a 2010 bomb attack in Prayagraj, for which fellow MLA Vijay Mishra is among those who have been charged.[1]

Notes and References

  1. News: Hindustan Times . Three cops caught taking money from MLA's kin . 23 August 2012 . 22 January 2019.
  2. Web site: Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi(Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)):Constituency- ALLAHABAD SOUTH(ALLAHABAD) - Affidavit Information of Candidate . myneta.info . 24 June 2019.
  3. News: Scroll Staff . Uttar Pradesh: Houses in Prayagraj painted saffron, two FIRs filed . 19 August 2020 . Scroll.in . 14 July 2020.
  4. News: Shot in arm for Nandi as wife wins Allahabad mayoral election. Indian Express . 8 July 2012 . 22 January 2019.