Abhilasha Gupta Nandi is a

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from

Prayagraj Prayagraj (, ; ISO 15919, ISO: ), formerly and colloquially known as Allahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi, Varanasi (Benar ...

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

, India. She was

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of the Prayagraj Municipal Corporation from 2012 to 2023. She was elected mayor on 7 July 2012, 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. She is married to Nand Gopal Nandi. She was arrested on 14 February 2014 in a case related to the alleged violation of the model code of conduct in 2012 civic body polls. Abhilasha and her husband Nand Gopal Nandi who was affiliated with

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP) is a political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), along with Religious ...

, 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 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 The Samajwadi Party ( SP; ) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. It is the third-largest political party in ...

's Vinod Dubey, by more than 63,000 votes.

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