Ajay Kapoor (born 21 February 1967) is an Indian politician from

Kanpur Kanpur or Cawnpore ( /kɑːnˈpʊər/ pronunciation (help·info)) is an industrial city in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1207, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations o ...

. He won the Assembly elections for the first time in 2002 from

Govind Nagar Govind Nagar is a southern neighbourhood of Kanpur named after Govind Vallabh Pant as he inaugurated this locality. It was the largest Vidhan Sabha constituency in Asia until Kidwai Nagar Vidhan Sabha constituency was formed. It is surrounded ...

with a margin of 53,000 votes as the

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candidate, he again won the elections in 2007 from Govind Nagar afterwards. In the 2012 Assembly Election, he won for a third time Assembly Elections but this time from Kidwai Nagar as the

candidate which is a part of earlier

constituency. On 7 January 2017, the Uttar Pradesh election commission filed a show cause notice against Kapoor for violating election conduct rules ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections. Kapoor had laid the foundation stone with his name for the St. Thomas School road three days earlier, which is against conduct rules. He lost his seat in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election to Mahesh Trivedi of the

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