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

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

Political career

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, Gupta was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh 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

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in the Allahabad South seat. In the national elections of 2014, he sought election to the Lok Sabha as an Indian National Congress 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 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.

Personal life

Gupta is married to Abhilasha Gupta, 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

Living people Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Bahujan Samaj Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2007–2012 1970s births Indian National Congress politicians from Uttar Pradesh State cabinet ministers of Uttar Pradesh Yogi ministry Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2017–2022 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2022–2027 {{UttarPradesh-BJP-politician-stub