| Office | Member of Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh
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|---|---|
| Term start | 24 February 2002 |
| Term end | 5 March 2012 |
| Predecessor | Bal Chandra Misra |
| Successor | Satyadev Pachauri
|
| Successor | Mahesh Trivedi |
| Constituency | Govind Nagar |
| Constituency | Kidwai Nagar |
| Born | 21 February 1967 |
| Born | Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh)
|
| Spouse | Meenakshi Kapoor |
| Children | 1
|
Ajay Kapoor (born 21 February 1967) is an Indian politician from Kanpur. He won the Assembly elections for the first time in 2002 from Govind Nagar with a margin of 53,000 votes as the INC candidate, he again won the elections in 2007 from Govind Nagar afterwards. In the 2012 Assembly Election, he won for a third time Assembly Elections but this time from Kidwai Nagar as the INC candidate which is a part of earlier Govind Nagar constituency.[1]
On 7 January 2017, the Uttar Pradesh election commission filed a show cause notice against Kapoor for violating election conduct rules ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections.[2] Kapoor had laid the foundation stone with his name for the St. Thomas School road three days earlier, which is against conduct rules.
He lost his seat in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election to Mahesh Trivedi of the Bharatiya Janata Party.[3]
References
- ↑ Kidwai Nagar Assembly Election 2012, Uttar Pradesh. empoweringindia.org.
- ↑ Notice to Congress MLA Ajay Kapoor for violating poll code. The Times of India(8 January 2017).
- ↑ KIDWAI NAGAR Election Result 2017, Winner, KIDWAI NAGAR MLA, Uttar Pradesh.