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<div>{{Short description|Indian politician}}<br />
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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Ajay Kapoor<br />
| image =<br />
| office = [[Member of Legislative Assembly]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
| term_start = 24 February 2002<br />
| term_end = 5 March 2012<br />
| constituency = [[Govind Nagar (Assembly constituency)|Govind Nagar]]<br />
| term_start1 = 5 March 2012<br />
| term_end1 = 11 March 2017<br />
| successor1 = [[Mahesh Trivedi]]<br />
| constituency1 = [[Kidwai Nagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kidwai Nagar]]<br />
| predecessor = [[Bal Chandra Misra]]<br />
| successor = [[Satyadev Pachauri]]<br />
| birth_date= 21 February 1967<br />
| birth_place= [[Kanpur|Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh)]]<br />
| education = Graduate<br />
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| spouse= Meenakshi Kapoor<br />
| children = 1<br />
}}<br />
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'''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 (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Govind Nagar]] with a margin of 53,000 votes as the [[Indian National Congress|INC]] candidate, he again won the elections in 2007 from Govind Nagar afterwards. In the [[2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2012 Assembly Election]], he won for a third time Assembly Elections but this time from [[Kidwai Nagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kidwai Nagar]] as the [[Indian National Congress|INC]] candidate which is a part of earlier [[Govind Nagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Govind Nagar]] constituency.<ref name="empoweringindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=754&cid=215|title=Kidwai Nagar Assembly Election 2012, Uttar Pradesh|publisher=empoweringindia.org|accessdate=2014-06-07}}</ref><br />
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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 [[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|Assembly elections]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kanpur/notice-to-cong-mla-for-violating-poll-code/articleshow/56395937.cms | title=Notice to Congress MLA Ajay Kapoor for violating poll code | date=8 January 2017 | newspaper=The Times of India | accessdate=5 August 2018 }}</ref> Kapoor had laid the foundation stone with his name for the St. Thomas School road three days earlier, which is against conduct rules.<br />
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He lost his seat in the [[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election]] to Mahesh Trivedi of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].<ref>http://www.ndtv.com/elections/uttar-pradesh/kidwai-nagar-mla-results</ref><br />
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[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2012–2017]]<br />
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2002–2007]]<br />
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2007–2012]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians from Kanpur]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:1967 births]]<br />
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