Abhilasha Gupta

Abhilasha Gupta Nandi is a politician from Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.[1] She was mayor of the Allahabad Municipal Corporation from 2012-2023.[2]

Abhilasha Gupta
Mayor of Prayagraj
Assumed office
7 July 2012
Preceded byCh. Jitendra Nath Singh
Personal details
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
SpouseNand Gopal Gupta (m. 1995)
EducationGraduate

She was elected mayor on 7 July 2012,[3] becoming the youngest person to have been elected to the post. In the 2012 Mayoral election, she defeated her nearest rival Kamla Singh of the BJP by a comprehensive margin of more than 69,000 votes.[4] She is married to Nand Gopal Nandi.[5][6]

She was arrested on 14 February 2014[7] in a case related to the alleged violation of the model code of conduct in 2012 civic body polls.[8] Abhilasha and her husband Nand Gopal Nandi who was affiliated with Bahujan Samaj Party, have been expelled from the party for their alleged anti-party activities in a case related to the alleged violation of the model code of conduct in 2012 civic body polls[9] in March, 2014.

She joined the BJP in January, 2017, along with her husband Nand Gopal Nandi.

Gupta comfortably defended her post in the Mayoral elections of 2017, defeating her nearest rival, Samajwadi Party's Vinod Dubey, by more than 63,000 votes.[10]

References
  1. "Abhilasha Gupta gets elected to the post of Allahabad Mayor". NDTV. 7 July 2012.
  2. "Mayor of the city". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  3. "Allahabad Nagar Nigam : Governing Body". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  4. "Abhilasha Gupta gets elected to the post of Allahabad Mayor". Jagan news. 7 July 2012.
  5. "Shot in arm for Nandi as wife wins Allahabad mayoral election". Indian Express. 8 July 2012.
  6. "Now Nandi & Abhilasha". ActiveIndiaTV. 12 March 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  7. "Allahabad mayor arrested for violating code, cries foul". CanIndia. 14 February 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  8. "Allahabad Mayor held". The Hindu. 15 February 2014.
  9. "BSP leader, his mayor wife expelled from party: may join BJP". 11 March 2014. Archived from the original on 11 July 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  10. Hindustan Team (2 December 2017). "BJP Mayor Candidate Abhilasha Gupta Wins by 63,000 Votes". Live Hindustan. Retrieved 17 June 2017.


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