Uma Bharti is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. She became involved with the Bharatiya Janata Party at a young age,unsuccessfully contesting her first parliamentary elections in 1984. In 1989,she successfully contested the Khajuraho seat,and retained it in elections conducted in 1991,1996 and 1998. In 1999,she switched constituencies and won the Bhopal seat.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans,referring to Scheduled Castes,Scheduled Tribes,and Other Backward Classes (OBC),along with religious minorities. According to Kanshi Ram,when he founded the party in 1984,the Bahujans comprised 85 percent of India's population,but were divided into 6,000 different castes. The party claims to be inspired by the philosophy of Gautama Buddha,B. R. Ambedkar,Mahatma Jyotiba Phule,Narayana Guru,Periyar E. V. Ramasamy and Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj. Kanshi Ram named his protégée,Mayawati,as his successor in 2001. The BSP has its main base in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh where it was the second-largest party in the 2019 Indian general election with 19.3% of votes and third-largest in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election with 12.88% of votes. Its election symbol is an elephant which is the same symbol historically used by Dr. Ambedkar's Scheduled Castes Federation.
Mayawati is an Indian politician. She has served four separate terms as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. She is the national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP),which focuses on a platform of social change for Bahujans,more commonly known as Other Backward Castes,Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as well as converted minorities from these castes. She was chief minister briefly in 1995 and again in 1997,then from 2002 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2012.
Rajesh Ranjan,better known as Pappu Yadav,is an Indian politician. He won elections to the Lok Sabha in 1991,1996,1999,2004 and 2014 from several constituencies in Bihar as an Independent / SP / Lok Janata Party / RJD candidate. Pappu Yadav became one of the 'best performing' MPs in 2015. Pappu Yadav is President of Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik).
Amar Singh was an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was the general secretary of the Samajwadi Party and was a member of the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian parliament. On 6 January 2010,he resigned from all the posts of the Samajwadi Party and was later expelled from the party by its chief,Mulayam Singh Yadav,on 2 February 2010.
Kalyan Singh was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He served twice as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and as a Member of Parliament. He was the Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh during the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992. He was considered an icon of Hindu nationalism,and of the agitation to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Atique Ahmed is an Indian politician who is also known as a criminal leader and history-sheeter. He was elected as a member of the legislative assembly from the Allahabad west seat for 5 consecutive times which is still a record. From 2004–2009,he was elected as a Samajwadi Party candidate for the 14th Lok Sabha from Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh. Between the years 1999-2003,he was the president of the Apna Dal,founded by Sone Lal Patel. According to his affidavit in the 2014 elections,he has declared that there are now no cases pending against him. The most sensational murder was that of BSP MLA Raju Pal,who had defeated Atique's brother Ashraf in the 2004 Uttar Pradesh state legislature elections.
Amarmani Tripathi is a politician from Eastern Uttar Pradesh. He has been a MLA from Nautanwa,Uttar Pradesh four times. He and his wife are currently serving a life sentence in the Madhumita Shukla murder case with conspiracy to murder. He had earlier been a state Minister in the state of Uttar Pradesh with the Samajwadi Party under Mulayam Singh Yadav.
The 2007 Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election was held during April–May 2007. It was held to elect a government for the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
Hari Shankar Tiwari is an Indian gangster and politician from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Tiwari was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the village Tanda,Chillupar in Gorakhpur district.
Mukhtar Ansari is an Indian gangster and politician from Uttar Pradesh. He has been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Mau constituency five times with a Bahujan Samaj Party ticket.
Kunwar Raghuraj Pratap Singh,popularly known as Raja Bhaiya,is an Indian politician. He is an M.L.A. of Jansatta Dal (L) in the 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly from his native local assembly constituency Kunda.
Jamuna Prasad Nishad was an Indian politician from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP),representing the Pipraich constituency in the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. He belongs to Nishad Community of OBC. Nishad became the Minister for Fisheries in the Mayawati government,but was forced to resign after being named on charges of murdering a policeman. He was also named in eight other criminal charges.
Mohammad Azam Khan is an Indian politician serving as the Member of Parliament from Rampur. He is one of the founding members of the Samajwadi Party and was a member of the Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He was also the senior most Cabinet Minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh and has been a member of the legislative assembly for ten terms from Rampur assembly constituency.
The Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election followed as a result the expiration of the five-year term of the previous legislature elected in Uttar Pradesh,India. The election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly was held in seven phases from 8 February through 3 March 2012. Uttar Pradesh has the world's largest population for a sub-national democracy. The incumbent chief minister Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party,which previously won an absolute majority of seats,was defeated by Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party,which gained an absolute majority in the election. Mulayam's son and Samajwadi party president Akhilesh Yadav was nominated as chief minister by the party.
Munna Bajrangi or Prem Prakash Singh was an Indian politician,a known contract killer and a gang leader from Eastern Uttar Pradesh. In the two decades he was active,he is associated with more than 40 incidents such as murder,attempted murder,and extortion. Shri Prakash Shukla was the first person who fired an AK-47 on the soil of Uttar Pradesh. He was a notorious crook in the 1990s after this AK 47 was used by Munna Bajrangi. In 2009,he was in jailed for the murder of MLA Krishnanand Rai in 2005 and another BJP leader Ramchandra Singh. For many years,he supported the Samajwadi Party headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav,but the gang switched to Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party in the mid-2000s.
The election for the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh,a multi party contest,the Samajwadi party beating most of the exit polls which were pointing the hung assembly,secured a comfortable majority of 224 in a house of 403 outperforming the ruling BSP and other national parties,the INC and the BJP. The BSP strength in the assembly was greatly reduced to 80 seats,the BJP with 47 seats followed by the Congress with 28 seats. Mayawati,the incumbent Chief Minister tendered her resignation on 6 March 2012 marking the distinction of being the first to complete full five years in office.
The Legislative Assembly election was held over five-phases in Bihar through October–November 2015 before the end of the tenure of the prior Legislative Assembly of Bihar on 29 November 2015.
Mehboob Ali is an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh. He is representing the Amroha seat on a Samajwadi Party ticket since 2002. He has also held different ministerial berths.
The Mahagathbandhan,or MGB,or simply the Gathbandhan (Alliance),was an anti-Congress,anti-BJP,Indian political alliance formed in the run-up to the 2019 general election under the leadership of two former Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh,Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party and Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party,along with Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal and several other political parties,contesting in different states of India.
