Harbans Kapoor

Harbans Kapoor
Member of Legislative Assembly
for Dehradun Cantonment
In office
1989–2021
Speaker
Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
In office
2007–2012
Minister of State
Urban Development
Government of Uttarakhand
In office
2001–2002
Minister of State
Rural Development, Labour & Unemployment
Government of Uttar Pradesh
In office
17 July 1991 – 6 December 1992
Personal details
Born(1946-01-07)7 January 1946
Bannu, North-West Frontier Province, British India
(Present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan)
Died13 December 2021(2021-12-13) (aged 75)
Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Political partyBhartiya Janta Party
WebsiteOfficial website

Harbans Kapoor (7 January 1946 – 13 December 2021) was an Indian politician who was a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttarakhand State. He was Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from 2007 to 2012.[1] He was elected to the assembly from Dehra Khas constituency.[2] After the first defeat in 1985, he never lost Legislative Assembly elections and won for a record eight terms in a row (four times as the member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly and four as the member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly) from Dehradun.

  1. ^ "Harbans Kapoor - Jivan Parichay".
  2. ^ "Harbans Kapoor unanimously elected Uttarakhand Speaker – News Oneindia". Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2014.