New Delhi, Feb. 20 -- 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 Mayo...