Nand Gopal Gupta (Nandi), also known as Nandi, Cabinet Minister, Government of Uttar Pradesh for Industrial Development, Export Promotion, NRI, Investment Promotion , MLA Prayagraj (South) , http://nandgopalguptanandi.in

Early life

Gupta hails from

Allahabad Allahabad (), officially known as Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi (Benares). It is the administrat ...

and was born to Suresh Chandra Gupta. He passed

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in the year 1989 from the Uttar Pradesh board.

Political career

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, Gupta was elected to the

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from the Allahabad constituency as a candidate of the

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(BSP). In the 2012 assembly elections, he was defeated by

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candidate Haji Parvej Ahmad in the Allahabad South seat. In the national elections of 2014, he sought election to the

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as an

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candidate from Allahabad but lost. In

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, he was elected to the Uttar Pradesh assembly from Allahabad 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

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(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.

Personal life

Gupta is married to

Abhilasha Gupta Abhilasha Gupta Nandi is a politician from Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. She is present mayor of the Allahabad Municipal Corporation. She was elected mayor on 7 July 2012, becoming the youngest person to have been elected to the post. In the ...

, who is also a politician. He was seriously injured in a 2010 bomb attack in Allahabad, for which fellow MLA

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is among those who have been charged.

References

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