Adesh Kumar Gupta

Gupta was born in 1969 to Shambhu Dayal Gupta as his eldest son at Gursahaiganj, Kannauj (formerly a part of Farrukhabad district and now in Kannauj district), Uttar Pradesh. He achieved his twelfth-grade Higher Secondary School Certificate from Madan Mohan Malviya Inter College in 1987 and later attended Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University at Kanpur and graduated in Bachelor of Science.[1][2] He moved to Delhi in 1994 after finishing his higher education and started tutoring to make his living in the city and after working as a tuition teacher for two years he established his own business.[3] However, his business was not successful and that made him return to teaching profession again.[3] After tutoring for few years he applied for the position of contractor with the Central Public Works Department and acquired considerable success in this profession.[3][4][5]

Gupta is a member of the Bharatiya Janta Party and is active in the politics of Delhi. He embarked on a career in politics after becoming a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) during his time in the Madan Mohan Malviya Inter College as a twelfth-grade student in 1987.[1][5] His involvement in student politics continued when he attended Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University at Kanpur. He ascended in the ABVP to become the head of its district unit and later secretary of the state unit. He actively participated in the Ram Mandir Movement and canvassed students for its support. His association with the movement led him to get arrested by police in 1991 and he was kept in a temporary prison at Kanpur for a year.[1] He joined the Bharatiya Yuva Morcha and became its national office secretary in 1994 under the leadership of Dharmendra Pradhan as the president of the body.[2][5] After becoming a member of the Bharatiya Janta Party, he held several positions in its Delhi unit from 2009 to 2014; becoming the West Patel Nagar Mandal President in 2009 and later the head of Najafgarh Mandal.[5] He was given a BJP ticket to contest from West Patel Nagar ward of Karol Bagh Zone of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation in the 2017 Municipal Corporation of Delhi election. He won the election and later in April 2018 became the Mayor of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC).[4] He was succeeded by Avtar Singh for the post of mayor on 29 April 2019. As a member of the NDMC, Gupta was elected unopposed a member of the standing committee of the house on the same day he resigned as the mayor.[6]

Gupta was appointed as the president of Delhi BJP on 2 June 2020 by the National President of the BJP Jagat Prakash Nadda.[7] He succeeded actor-politician and member of parliament Manoj Tiwari who had offered his resignation due to unsatisfactory performance of the party in the 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election but was asked by the party to remain in the office until the new appointment to replace him.