Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi won from Allahabad South and was again made minister in Yogi Adityanath Cabinet. Nandi was the Cabinet Minister for Civil Aviation in the UP government in first term. He had handled Political Pension, Minority Welfare, Muslim Waqf and Haj ministries in the state government. In 2007, Gupta was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from the Allahabad constituency as a candidate of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). In the 2012 assembly elections, he was defeated by Samajwadi Party candidate Haji Parvej Ahmad in the Allahabad South seat. An FIR was filed against Gupta in July 2020, alleging that he forcefully had his people paint all the houses saffron along with pictures of Hindu deities in his colony without obtaining the consent of house owners or the residents.