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Haryana Assembly Polls: Kamal Gupta, Hisar MLA
He was appointed as BJP’s Hisar district president in 2012.
Kamal Gupta contested his first assembly elections way back in 1996 on a BJP ticket and finished third. He was appointed as BJP’s Hisar district president in 2012. He emerged victorious in the 2014 assembly polls.
Educational Qualification: MBBS, MS (surgery)
Assets: Total: ₹93.16 lakh
Moveable: ₹38.16 lakh
Immovable: ₹55 lakh
Electoral history:
2014: Kamal Gupta of BJP defeated Savitri Jindal of Congress by 13,646 votes.
2009: Savitri Jindal defeated Gautam Sardana, an Independent, by 14,728 votes.
2005: OP Jindal of Congress defeated Hari Singh Saini, an Independent, by 10,883 votes.
Constituency primer:
Primarily an urban constituency, Hisar has a dominant Punjabi and Bania vote-bank followed by sizeable backward-class voters. The constituency carries the stamp of Jindal family that runs a steel plant there. Steel tycoon Om Prakash Jindal and his wife Savitri have won five times from Hisar, including a bypoll necessitated due to his demise.
How he performed:
Kamal Gupta claims he executed development works to the tune of ₹800 crore in Hisar assembly constituency in the past five years. Among his notable achievements as a ruling party MLA is getting a sewage treatment plant, a washing yard at the railway station, laying of foundation stone of the first phase of an international airport, and setting up a number of flyovers and over bridges.
MLA’s quote
I have the satisfaction of achieving whatever I planned for my constituency. We did not merely initiate projects by laying customary foundation stones, but monitored their progress closely and ensured their completion.
By the way:
He was a practising general surgeon till 2012.
