Nand Gopal Gupta


Nand Gopal Gupta, also known as Nand Gopal Nandi, is a Minister of Civil Aviation, Political Pension,
Minority Welfare, Muslim Wakf and Haj in the Bharatiya Janata Party government of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Early life

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

Political career

In 2007, Gupta was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from the Allahabad constituency as a candidate of the Bahujan Samaj Party. In the 2012 assembly elections, he was defeated by Samajwadi Party candidate Haji Parvej Ahmad 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 2017, he was elected to the Uttar Pradesh assembly from Allahabad constituency for the BJP.
At present he is Cabinet Minister of Stamp and Civil Aviation in the BJP-led Government of Uttar Pradesh.
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 Vijay Mishra is among those who have been charged.