Gopal Rai (born May 10, 1975) is the Minister for Environment, Forest & Wildlife, Development and General Administration in Government of Delhi under the leadership of

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. He is also

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and a member of the Political Affairs Committee of the

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Background and education

Gopal Rai is a Post-graduate in Sociology from Lucknow University, 1998. He began his career with the

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, the student wing of the

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, in Lucknow University in 1992. He is a member of the National Executive of the

Aam Aadmi party The Aam Aadmi Party (; AAP) is a political party in India, as one of the national political parties. The AAP was founded in November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal and his then-companions following the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, popular ...

Political career

Rai began his career with

in Lucknow University in 1992. He is partially paralyzed as he was shot during his student days in Lucknow. He and two other members led "Mein Bhi Aam Aadmi" campaign which started on 10 January and continued till 26 January 2014, for handling fund collection, association and management of other political groups. Rai lost the election from the Babarpur constituency, got 25723 votes and stood in 3rd place in the

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. He was elected as MLA from Babarpur constituency in Delhi Legislative election, 2015 on 10th Feb. and got the ministry of Transport and Labour. On 13 December 2013, the fourth day of

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's indefinite hunger strike for passage of Jan Lokpal Bill in

Ralegaon Siddhi Ralegan Siddhi is a village in Parner taluka of Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra state in western India. It is located at a distance of 87 km from Pune. The village has an area of 982.31 ha (1991). It is considered a model of environmental c ...

, a verbal spat between

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and Gopal Rai took place, forcing Anna to ask Rai to leave Ralegaon.

Cabinet Minister, Delhi

He is a cabinet minister in the

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and holds the charge of below listed departments of the

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. * Development. * General Administration. * Environment.

Electoral performance

References

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