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About Vijay Mishra (politician)
- Vijay Kumar Mishra (born 7 September 1957) is an Indian politician who, as of 2017, represents the Gyanpur constituency in the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh.
- As a member of the NISHAD Party, he won the seat in the 2017 state assembly elections.
- In March 2018, he was expelled from that party, despite being its only Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), when he supported a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in elections to the Rajya Sabha.
- The party allied with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and had ordered him to support the BSP candidate, Bhim Rao Ambedkar.Mishra had been a member of the Samajwadi Party (SP), for whom he successfully contested in the 2002, 2007 and 2012 assembly elections.
- Described in 2007 by the Hindustan Times as a "mafia", he had at that time over 30 pending criminal cases lodged against him.
- He contested the 2012 election while in jail in relation to an alleged involvement in the 2010 bomb attack on Nand Gopal Gupta (also known as Nand Gopal Nandi).
- Denying the charges as being politically motivated, he was released on bail later in the year, by which time 62 criminal cases were recorded against him.
- His family had anticipated his release would occur if the SP were returned to government.The SP said it expelled Mishra in 2017 for "anti-party activities", when he had decided to contest the 2017 elections as an independent candidate due to the SP not adopting him.
- Other members of his family were expelled at the same time, including his wife, Ramlali Mishra, who was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.
- Mishra says that he resigned, together with many of his supporters.Mishra and his daughter, Seema, who was then contesting a Lok Sabha seat in the 2014 Indian general election, were both provided with armed protection officers for a period up to April 2014, when the courts ordered that this measure, financed by the Uttar Pradesh government, was illegal.
- It ruled that such protection could not be given to people with a criminal history.Mishra was born on 7 September 1957 in Khaptiha (Allahabad).
- His official parliamentary biography describes him as a Brahmin, with one son and five daughters.
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