Manglesh Kumar Srivastava | |
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Mayor Of Gorakhpur | |
Assumed office May 2023 | |
Appointed by | Elected by voters |
Member of Gorakhpur Municipal Corporation | |
Preceded by | Sitaram Jaiswal |
Personal details | |
Born | Gorakhpur,Uttar Pradesh,India | 1 July 1961
Political party | Bhartiya Janta Party (2023-present) |
Residence(s) | Raptinagar,Gorakhpur,Uttar Pradesh |
Alma mater | Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College |
Profession |
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Manglesh Kumar Srivastava (born 1 July 1961) is the Mayor of Gorakhpur and Ex-director of Tilak Pathology. He has been elected as the Mayor candidate from the Bhartiya Janta Party in Gorakhpur Mayor Elections 2023. [1] [2]
Manglesh was born on 1 July 1961 in Gorakhpur to Adya Prasad and Shushila Devi. [3] He is a pathologist [4] and completed his MBBS and MD in pathology from Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College, Kanpur.
Srivastava is a member of Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh, [5] and became the vice president of Saraswati Shishu Mandir, Saraswati Shiksha Samiti.
In 2020, he was the president of the Indian Medical Association, [6] Gorakhpur, through which full benefits of the Ayushman Bharat Yojana were made available to the patients of covid and also contributed to the work done by CM Yogi in Gorakhpur (Japanese fever).
Srivastava has been an active member of the medical community for many years and is the former Secretary of the Pathology Association, Gorakhpur and the President of NMO(MNO) Goraksh Prant Gorakhpur. Additionally, he is a Member of the Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists (APM) and the Indian Association of Cytology (IAC). [7] He won the Gorakhpur Mayor Elections 2023, [8] with 49.79% of the total votes cast, defeating the Samajwadi Party candidate by 61,076 votes, a 2% increase over the votes polled by the successful BJP candidate in 2017.
Bidding adieu to the gown-wearing tradition, the Mayor [9] Manglesh Srivastav took oath as the new mayor of Gorakhpur, donning a saffron Pagri and a scarf with the BJP symbol, on 27 May 2023. He said it is the right time to shun the gown as the country had completed 75 years of independence. [10]
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