Yashpal Arya

Yashpal Arya is a Bharatiya Janata Party member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly in India and a former Indian National Congress leader. He was elected from Mukteshwar constituency in the Uttarakhand state assembly elections, 2007.
He was the President of the Congress Party's Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee (Uttarakhand PCC) from 2007 through 2014. He was elected from Bajpur assembly constituency in 2012 and was being thought to be the frontrunner for the chief ministerial candidature until the congress high command made Vijay Bahuguna , son of former Uttar Pradesh CM late Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna swear into the post.
On 16 January 2017, Arya joined the rival Bharatiya Janata Party.