New Delhi, Feb 20 (UNI) Kapil Mishra, sworn-in as Cabinet Minister in Delhi government led by Rekha Gupta on Thursday, was a former member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly who represented Karawal Nagar.

He won from Karawal Nagar Constituency in the recently held Assembly election defeating his AAP rival Manoj Kumar Tyagi by a margin of 23,355 votes.

Mishra had won from the Karawal Nagar Assembly Constituency in the 2015 Delhi election on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ticket by a margin of 44,431 votes, defeating Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate and four-time MLA Mohan Singh Bisht.

He, however, left the AAP in 2019 to join the BJP. Some might say Mishra was a “blue blood” in politics, with his mother Annapurna Mishra being a former BJP Mayor from East Delhi.



Founder of Youth for Justice, a social justice organisation, the BJP MLA was involved in movements against farmer suicides, Yamuna encroachment and Commonwealth Games scandal, even authoring a book called ‘Its Common VS Wealth’ on the issue in 2010.

Mishra had been inducted into the Cabinet as the Water Resources Minister in the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government. But he was removed from the Ministry after he accused Kejriwal and Cabinet colleague Satyendar Jain of corruption.

The BJP leader had lodged a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Bureau against Kejriwal, saying he and Jain took Rs 2 crore in bribe, but Mishra failed to prove it.



Despite being an AAP MLA, he was seen supporting and sharing the stage with BJP leaders. He even campaigned against his own party during the Lok Sabha election in 2019.

These anti-party activities were brought to the notice of Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel. After due process under the 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 on August 2, 2019.



After his expulsion, Mishra officially joined the BJP in the presence of party leaders Manoj Tiwari, Vijay Goel and Satish Upadhyay, on August 17, 2019.

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