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Harbans Kapoor
Member of Legislative Assembly
for Dehradun Cantonment
Assumed office
1989
Speaker
Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
In office
2007–2012
Minister of State
Urban Development
Government of Uttarakhand
In office
2001–2002
Minister of State
Rural Development, Labour & Unemployment
Government of Uttar Pradesh
In office
17 July 1991 – 6 December 1992
Personal details
Born (1946-01-07) 7 January 1946 (age 78)
Bannu, North-West Frontier Province, British India
(Present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan)
Political partyBhartiya Janta Party
WebsiteOfficial website

Harbans Kapoor (born 7 January 1946) is an Indian politician who is a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttarakhand State. He is a former Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly.[1] He was Speaker from 2007 to 2012. He was elected to the assembly from Dehra Khas constituency.[2] After the first defeat in 1985, he has never lost Legislative Assembly elections and won for a record eight terms in a row (four times as the member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly and four as the member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly) from Dehradun.

Early life and education

Kapoor was born in Bannu, North-West Frontier Province in 1946 to a Punjabi Hindu family. His family resettled in Dehradun after Partition of India. He completed his early schooling from St. Joseph's Academy, Dehradun. He graduated in Law from DAV College, Dehradun, HNB Garhwal University.

Politics

Starting as a grass root level politician, he joined the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha in 1989 as a member of the 10th Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha from Dehradun constituency, followed by the 11th Vidhan Sabha, 12th Vidhan Sabha and the 13th Vidhan Sabha. He also maintained his victory in the first election of the new state of Uttarakhand in 2002 and continued his victory spree in all the elections after the inception. In 2007, he was unanimously elected the Speaker of Uttarakhand Assembly,.[3] He is one of the oldest leader in uttrakhand bjp .

Elections contested

Year Constituency Result Vote percentage Opposition Candidate Opposition Party Opposition vote percentage Ref
1985 Dehradun Lost 22.85% Hira Singh Bisht INC 66.76% [4]
1989 Dehradun Won 42.84% Hira Singh Bisht INC 31.11% [5]
1991 Dehradun Won 54.14% Vinod INC 31.30% [6]
1993 Dehradun Won 53.74% Dinesh Agrawal INC 38.55% [7]
1996 Dehradun Won 56.37% Dinesh Agrawal INC 17.98% [8]
2002 Dehradun Cantonment Won NA Sanjay Sharma INC NA [9]
2007 Dehradun Cantonment Won NA Lal Chand Sharma INC NA [10]
2012 Dehradun Cantonment Won NA Devendra Singh Sethi INC NA [11]
2017 Dehradun Cantonment Won 56.99% Suryakant Dhasmana INC 33.90% [12]

References