Kishore Upadhyaya

Kishore Upadhyaya
Member of Legislative Assembly
Tehri
In office
2002–2012
Constituency Tehri
President of Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee
In office
2014–2017
Preceded by Yashpal Arya
Succeeded by Pritam Singh
Personal details
Born 1967
Political party Indian National Congress
Residence Tehri Garwal

Kishore Upadhyaya is an Indian National Congress leader and member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly in India. He was elected from Tehri constituency in the Uttarakhand state assembly elections, 2007. In Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election, 2012, he lost to Dinesh Dhanai a Independent candidate.[1]

He was the President of Congress Party's Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee ot Uttarakhand PCC from 2014 to 2017. He took over from Yashpal Arya. Under his tenure there was revolt in the party where 9 MLAs changed their loyalty to Bharatiya Janata Party.[2][3][4]

Elections contested

Year Constituency Result Vote percentage Opposition Candidate Opposition Party Opposition vote percentage Ref
2002 Tehri Won NA NA NA NA
2007 Tehri Won NA NA NA NA
2012 Tehri Lost NA NA NA NA
2017 Sahaspur Lost NA NA NA NA

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