Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician serving as the current Prime Minister of India since 26 May 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a right wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest-serving prime minister outside the Indian National Congress.
Manoj Sinha is an Indian politician serving as the 2nd and the current Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. He served as the Minister of State for Communications and Minister of State for Railways in the Government of India. Sinha was elected as Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha,representing Ghazipur for three terms from the Bharatiya Janata Party. Sinha was in the race for the post of UP Chief Minister after 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.
Amit Anil Chandra Shah is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 32nd Minister of Home Affairs since May 2019 and the first Minister of Co-operation since July 2021. He is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gandhinagar. He served as the 10th President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020. He has also served as chairman of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) since 2014. He had been elected as a member of the upper house of Parliament,Rajya Sabha,from Gujarat from 2017 to 2019.
Sanjay Vinayak Joshi is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a long-time member of the Gujarat BJP and was a member of the BJP national executive until he was forced to resign after public pressure from Narendra Modi. During his 2001-2005 tenure as National General Secretary (Organization),he led the organization that enabled BJP to win the Assembly elections in nine states.
Raj Kumar Singh is a former Indian bureaucrat and former Union Cabinet Minister in the Government of India. He was the Member of the Indian Parliament for Arrah,Bihar,from May 2014 to 4 June 2024. Singh is a 1975 batch Bihar cadre Indian Administrative Service officer and former Home Secretary of India.
The First Narendra Modi ministry is the Council of Ministers headed by Narendra Modi that was formed after the 2014 general election which was held in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May in 2014. The results of the election were announced on 16 May 2014 and this led to the formation of the 16th Lok Sabha. The Council assumed office from 27 May 2014.
Mahendra Nath Pandey is an Indian politician who was Minister of Heavy Industries and Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship of India and Member of Lok Sabha for Chandauli from 2014 to 2024. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party and was the president of the party's Uttar Pradesh unit. He has also served as Union Minister of State for Ministry of Human Resource Development between 2016 and 2017. He is a member of Modi's second ministry. On 30 May 2019,he was appointed as Cabinet minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship,Government of India.
Nripendra Misra is an Indian bureaucrat and civil servant. An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1967 batch from the Uttar Pradesh cadre,he served as the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India,Narendra Modi from 2014 to 2019. He earlier served as the chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India,as the Telecom Secretary of India and the Fertilizers Secretary of India. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan in 2021. His son Saket Misra is a nominated Member of Legislative Council in Government of Uttar Pradesh since April 2023.
Rajeev Topno is an Indian civil servant who previously served as Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of the World Bank Group,Rajesh Khullar. Prior to that,he was Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of India,Narendra Modi. He is a 1996 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Gujarat Cadre.
Ram Chandra Prasad Singh is an Indian politician and former national president of Janata Dal (United). He is a former Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from Bihar from 2010 to 2022. He was a Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer before joining politics. He was also principal secretary of Nitish Kumar. He became Minister of Steel in Second Modi ministry when cabinet overhaul happened.
Achal Kumar Jyoti is a retired 1975 IAS officer of Gujarat cadre who served as 21st Chief Election Commissioner of India from 6 July 2017 to 23 January 2018.
Pradeep Kumar Sinha is a 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre,who was the 31st Cabinet Secretary of India. Prior to this appointment he served as the Power Secretary of India,and was the Shipping Secretary of India before that.
Prashant Kishor Pandey,colloquially known as PK,is an Indian political strategist and tactician. He worked in public health programmes funded by the United Nations for eight years before venturing into Indian politics and working as a political strategist.
The election to the 17th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly was held from 11 February to 8 March 2017 in 7 phases. This election saw a voter turnout of 61.11% compared to 59.40% in the previous election. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the election by an overwhelming three-quarters majority of 325 seats despite not projecting a chief ministerial candidate before the election. As part of its election strategy,BJP contested under a collective leadership and capitalised mostly on the political clout and 'brand' of its leader Narendra Modi.
Pramod Kumar Mishra,often abbreviated P. K. Mishra,is the 13th and current principal secretary to the Prime Minister of India,Narendra Modi. He is a 1972 batch Indian Administrative Service officer belonging to Gujarat cadre. During 2001–2004,Mishra has also served as the principal secretary to Narendra Modi,when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.
Provincial Civil Service of Uttar Pradesh (IAST:Prāntīya Civil Sevā,often abbreviated to as PCS,is the administrative civil service of the Government of Uttar Pradesh comprising Group A and Group B posts. It is also the feeder service for Indian Administrative Service in the state.
The Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India is the administrative head of the Prime Minister's Office. The officeholder is generally a civil servant,commonly from the Indian Administrative Service and occasionally from the Indian Foreign Service.
Ashwini Vaishnaw is an Indian politician,former IAS officer and a businessman who serving as 39th Minister of Railways,35th Minister of Information and Broadcasting and 2nd Minister of Electronics and Information Technology since 2024.
Hardik Satishchandra Shah is an Indian civil servant as a member of Indian Administrative Service of Gujarat Cadre and is currently serving as the Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of India,Narendra Modi. He previously served as a Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office (India) (PMO) from August 2019. He is a 2010-batch IAS officer.
B.V.R Subramaniyam is a retired 1988-batch Chhattisgarh cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer. He has been Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce &Industry,Chief Secretary-Jammu &Kashmir,Principal Secretary-Government of Chhattisgarh,and has held positions in the Prime Minister’s Office. He has previously served in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) under both Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi. He has been instrumental in containing insurgency in Chhattisgarh in the 2010s. In February 2023,he has taken charge as 4th CEO of NITI Aayog.
