Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) is a public state university at Summer Hill,Shimla,Himachal Pradesh. It was established on 22 July 1970 by The Himachal Pradesh University Act,1970 by the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly,before the emergence of Himachal Pradesh as a full state of India.
Manmohan Singh is an Indian politician,economist,academician and bureaucrat who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He is the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru,Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi. A member of the Indian National Congress,Singh was the first Sikh prime minister of India. He was also the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term.
Kamal Nath is an Indian politician who served as the 18th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh for approximately 15 months and resigned after a political crisis. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from March 2020 to April 2022.
Although India is a parliamentary democracy,the country's politics has become dynastic or with high level of nepotism,possibly due to the absence of party organizations,independent civil-society associations which mobilize support for a party,or centralized financing of elections. The dynastic phenomenon is present at the national,state,regional,and district level. The Nehru–Gandhi family has produced three Indian prime ministers,and family members have largely led the Congress party since 1978. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also has several dynastic leaders. In addition to the major national parties,other national and regional parties such as Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK),Shiromani Akali Dal,Shiv Sena,Samajwadi Party,Rashtriya Janata Dal,Janata Dal Secular,Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,Kerala Congress,Jammu &Kashmir National Conference,Indian Union Muslim League,AIMIM,and the Nationalist Congress Party are all dominated by families,mostly those of the party founders.
Colonel Dhani Ram Shandil (Retd.) is an Indian politician from Himachal Pradesh. He is a member of the Indian National Congress political party.
Shanta Kumar Sharma is an Indian politician who was the 3rd Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh and a Union Minister in the Government of India. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha from Kangra constituency in 1989. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998,1999 and 2014 from the same constituency. He has written a number of books. He is the first and only person not of a Rajput background who has served as the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh.
Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur. also known as C. P. Thakur,is a former member of Rajya Sabha,a former minister in the Government of India,a physician and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a cabinet minister from 1999 to 2004 in the BJP government.
Rishang Keishing was an Indian politician from Manipur. Keishing served as Chief Minister of Manipur from 1980 to 1988 and from 1994 to 1998. He was a former Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing Manipur. He is the first Chief Minister of Manipur to complete his full term from 1981-1988.
Ashwani Kumar is an Indian politician and attorney who formerly served as Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha representing the state of Punjab. He formerly served as Union Minister of Law and Justice and Union Minister of State in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion and Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Abhishek Manu Singhvi is an Indian senior advocate and politician. As politician,he is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) and a member of the Parliament of India representing Telangana in the Rajya Sabha,the Upper House of the Indian Parliament,since August 2024. He is also a spokesperson for the INC. He is one of the senior advocates of the Supreme Court of India.
Digvijay Singh was an Indian politician from the state of Bihar,and an associate of George Fernandes of Janata Dal and later Samata Party,now led by Uday Mandal its President. He represented Banka in the Lok Sabha a few times. He was elected to Rajya Sabha twice. He died on 24 June 2010 in London after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
Viplove Thakur is an Indian politician. A senior leader of the Indian National Congress party,she has been a member of the Parliament of India. Thakur has represented Himachal Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Parliament since April,2006. She retired from the Upper House in April,2020.
Vijay Jawaharlal Darda is a politician from Indian National Congress party,and was a Member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha since 1998,having been elected for three consecutive terms into the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is the chairman of the Lokmat Media Group. He is also the President of the Akhil Bhartiya Sakal Jain Samaj. Darda was President of the Indian Newspaper Society,New Delhi from 1997 to 1998. He continues to be a member of its executive committee.
Kalpnath Rai was an Indian politician. He served as a member of the Rajya Sabha between 1974–80,1980–86,and 1986–92,as well as being elected on four term occasions to the Lok Sabha from the Ghosi constituency in the state of Uttar Pradesh. 1989-1991-1996-1998. He was a minister in various national Congress (I) governments.
Tiruchi Siva is a member of the Parliament of India representing Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of parliament. He is from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party,and was elected in 1996,2002,2007,2014 and 2020. He is a speaker and a writer.
Virendra Verma was an Indian politician,born in Shamli,Uttar Pradesh. He served as the Governor of Punjab and the Administrator of Chandigarh (1990) as well as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh (1990–1993).
Anant Prasad Sharma was an Indian Railway Union leader,politician who became Minister of State for Industry,and Union Minister of the government of India. He was also the Governor of the State of Punjab and the State of West Bengal. He was a member of the 3rd Lok Sabha and 5th Lok Sabha from Buxar. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha three times,in 1968–1971,1978–1983 and 1984–1988.
Jagat Prakash "J. P." Nadda is an Indian lawyer and politician who is serving as the 34th Minister of Health,25th Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers since 2024 and 11th President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2020 and the member of the Rajya Sabha representing Gujarat since 2024. A key decision maker of the BJP,he is a close aide to Narendra Modi. He was the BJP's working president from 2019 to 2020. Nadda was also the Minister of Health and Family Welfare in the first Modi ministry from 2014 to 2019 and Parliamentary Board Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party. Nadda is the Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers in the third Modi ministry.
Yerrapureddy Adinarayana Reddy was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. He organized the Individual Satyagraha Movement 1940 in the District and suffered three months in the Vellore Central Jail. During the Quit India Movement,he worked underground and later he was arrested and detained from 1942 to 1944 in the Vellore and Thanjavur Jails. He was a two term Member of Parliament,representing Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament as a member of the Indian National Congress. He even served as Member of the Legislative Assembly of the earlier Madras Legislative Assembly and Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Rayachoti. He was also elected as MLC by Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council.
Anil Sharma is an Indian politician,agriculturist and businessman from Himachal Pradesh. He was elected to the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Mandi as a member of the Indian National Congress in 1993,2007,and 2012 and as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2017. He is also the father of actor Aayush Sharma and son of Pandit Sukh Ram.
