Kapil Mishra

Kapil Mishra
Vice President, Bharatiya Janata Party, Delhi
In office
5 August 2023 – Present
National PresidentJagat Prakash Nadda
PresidentVirendra Sachdeva
Cabinet Minister, Government of Delhi
In office
2015–2017
GovernorNajeeb Jung
MinistryWater Resource Management
Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal
Member of Legislative Assembly, Delhi
In office
14 February 2015 – 2 August 2019
Preceded byMohan Singh Bisht
Succeeded byMohan Singh Bisht
ConstituencyKarawal Nagar
Personal details
Born (1980-11-13) 13 November 1980 (age 44)
Delhi, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party (2019–present)
Other political
affiliations		Aam Aadmi Party (2013–2017)
SpousePretty Mishra
Children2
Parents
EstablishedYouth For Justice

Kapil Mishra (born 13 November 1980)[1] is an Indian politician from Delhi.[2][3][4] Before joining the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019, Mishra was an Aam Aadmi Party MLA representing Karawal Nagar (Delhi Assembly constituency) in the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi.

He is also vice president of Delhi BJP.[5]

He was inducted as a Water Resource Minister in Arvind Kejriwal cabinet led AAP government of NCT Delhi, he was removed by Arvind Kejriwal from his ministry over corruption found in his ministry works, later he accused Arvind Kejriwal of corruption along with Satyendra Kumar Jain. Afterward, he sought appointments with the Anti-Corruption Bureau of Delhi to lodge his complaints, regarding 2 crores of bribe money which he alleged had been exchanged, but could not prove it.[6] Later on, the Lokayukta dropped Kejriwal's name from the case.[7]

Mishra later alleged more instances of corruption in the AAP government under Arvind Kejriwal. Being a member and MLA of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), he was supporting, sharing stage events for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was also campaigning against his own party AAP in 2019 Indian general election. These events and instances of anti-party activities were brought to the notice of the Speaker Ram Niwas Goel of Delhi Legislative Assembly by his former colleague MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj. After due process of proceedings and observations been conducted by the Legislative Speaker under rule of paragraph 2(1)(a) of the tenth schedule of the Indian constitution on grounds of defection and anti-party activities, Mishra was disqualified as an MLA of Delhi.[8][9] After few days of getting disqualified as an MLA, Kapil Mishra joined BJP in presence of senior BJP leaders of Delhi Manoj Tiwari, Vijay Goel, Vijender Gupta, Satish Upadhyay and others.[10][11]

  1. ^ "Election Commission of India". affidavit.eci.gov.in. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Development model promoted in the name of Games flayed". The Hindu. 1 June 2010. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
  3. ^ "Now book slams CWG, puns on 'Common v/s Wealth'". Deccanherald.com. 6 August 2010. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
  4. ^ "Arjuna awardee wonders why Delhi is hosting CWG". Ptinews.com. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
  5. ^ "BJP leader Kapil Mishra appointed party's Delhi unit vice-president". India Today. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  6. ^ "Sacked Delhi minister Kapil Mishra no stranger to controversies". The Economic Times. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Sacked Delhi minister Kapil Mishra no stranger to controversies". The Economic Times. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  8. ^ "Kapil Mishra". delhiassembly.nic.in. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  9. ^ "Rebel AAP Leader Kapil Mishra, Disqualified By Delhi Speaker, Joins BJP". NDTV.com. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  10. ^ "Former AAP minister Kapil Mishra joins BJP". India Today. 17 August 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  11. ^ "Disqualified AAP MLA Kapil Mishra, women's wing chief join BJP". The Economic Times. Retrieved 22 September 2020.