Nand Gopal Gupta, also known as Nandi,^[2] is a Cabinet Minister, Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Gupta hails from Prayagraj and was born to Suresh Chandra Gupta. He passed High School in the year 1989 from the Uttar Pradesh board.^[1]

In 2007, Gupta was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from the Prayagraj South Assembly 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 Prayagraj South seat. In the national elections of 2014, he sought election to the Lok Sabha as an Indian National Congress candidate from Prayagraj but lost. In 2017, he was elected to the Uttar Pradesh assembly from Prayagraj South Assembly constituency for the BJP.^{[citation needed]}

At present he is Cabinet Minister of Minority Affairs, Political Pension and Civil Aviation in the BJP-led Government of Uttar Pradesh.^[3]

In July 2020, a First Information Report (FIR) was filed against Gupta 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.^[4]

Gupta is married to Abhilasha Gupta, who is also a politician.^[5] He was seriously injured in a 2010 bomb attack in Prayagraj, for which fellow MLA Vijay Mishra is among those who have been charged.^[2]