Arun Jaitley was an Indian politician and attorney. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party,Jaitley served as the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs of the Government of India from 2014 to 2019. Jaitley previously held the cabinet portfolios of Finance,Defence,Corporate Affairs,Commerce and Industry,and Law and Justice in the Vajpayee government and Narendra Modi government.
Vasundhara Raje Scindia is an Indian politician,who has held two terms as the chief minister of Rajasthan. She was previously a minister in the Union Cabinet of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and was India's first Minister of Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries,which now known as Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises. She is currently one of the national vice presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). A member of the Scindia family,she is also the matriarch of the Bamraulia family of Dholpur.
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was the 11th vice president of India. He served in that position from August 2002,when he was elected to a five-year term by the electoral college following the death of Krishan Kant,until he resigned on 21 July 2007,after losing the presidential election to Pratibha Patil. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan three times,from 1977 to 1980,1990 to 1992 and 1993 to 1998. He represented several constituencies in Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha from 1952 to 2002. He was also awarded Padma Bhushan in the year 2003.
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 ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also has several dynastic leaders. In addition to the major national parties,other national and regional parties such as Shiromani Akali Dal,Shiv Sena,Samajwadi Party,Rashtriya Janata Dal,Janata Dal Secular,Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,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.
Lalit Kishore Chaturvedi was an Indian politician who was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Rajasthan. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha. He was cabinet minister in earlier state BJP ministries with responsibilities of important portfolios. He was earlier state president of Bharatiya Janata Party,Rajasthan . He had a Master of Science degree in physics.
Suraj Bhan was a former Governor,Member of Parliament and an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party.
Kailash Chandra Meghwal is a former Speaker of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly,former union minister of state in Government of India and a national vice president of Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the MLA of Shahpura,Bhilwara constituency of Rajasthan in 14th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly &Ex-MP Tonk constituency of Rajasthan in 14th Lok Sabha. He was minister of state for social justice and empowerment from 2003 to 2004.
Ghanshyam Tiwari is an Indian politician who has served as the MLA of the Sanganer constituency,located in Rajasthan between 2013 and 2018. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. 6 time MLA Tiwari has been winning for the last three consecutive elections from the same constituency. He is one of the prominent leaders of Rajasthan who have played significant roles in the establishment of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Politics of Rajasthan is mainly dominated by two parties,the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress. The current government in Rajasthan is that of the Indian National Congress and Ashok Gehlot is the Chief Minister.
Ashok Parnami is an Indian politician He has served as State president of Bharatiya Janata Party Rajasthan and mayor of Jaipur.
Om Birla is an Indian politician,agriculturist and social worker who is serving as the 17th and current Speaker of the Lok Sabha since 2019. He serves as a Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha from Kota-Bundi constituency in Rajasthan since 2014. He was also a member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly representing Kota South Assembly constituency from 2003 to 2014. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Jai Narayan Poonia was a Cabinet Minister and leader of Rajasthan in India. He served as Minister of Public Works. He was born in village Lakhlan Choti of district Churu in Rajasthan,into the family of Choudhary Jagmal Poonia of the Hindu Jat clan. He married Manbhari Devi.
Yunus Khan,also known as Yoonus Khan,is an Indian politician from Rajasthan. He was a cabinet minister in the government of Rajasthan led by Vasundhara Raje and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He represented the Nagaur district's Didwana in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. He was a minister of Public Works and Transport Department.
Kalu Lal Gurjar is a Bharatiya Janata Party leader and currently the President Of Rajasthan Gujar Mahasabha. He served as the Government Chief Whip in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 2013 to 2018. He also served as the cabinet minister in Government of Rajasthan led by Vasundhara Raje and also served as Mines minister in Government of Rajasthan led by Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. He represents Mandal constituency of Bhilwara district in the assembly and has been elected as Member of the Legislative Assembly for four times. Gujar is also the Chairman of Devnarayan Charitable Trust.
Digamber Singh was an Indian politician,who served as a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Rajasthan. Singh spent over two decades as a Member of the Legislative Assembly,representing the Kumher Assembly constituency,later renamed as Deeg-Kumher. He held numerous imperative Cabinet portfolios in the Government of Rajasthan,including Minister of Health,Ayurveda,Family Welfare and from 2009 onwards as the Minister of Industries.
Bharatiya Janata Party,Rajasthan is a state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Rajasthan. Chandra Prakash Joshi is the current president of the BJP Rajasthan. Vasundhara Raje was the previous Chief Minister of Rajasthan during 2013–2018,previously she served in the same post from 2003 to 2008. She was the first female Chief Minister of Rajasthan. And the former president of the BJP Rajasthan.
Jagdeep Dhankhar is an Indian politician and lawyer. He has served as the Vice President of the Republic of India since 2022. He previously served as the Governor of West Bengal from 2019 to 2022. He also served as a Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the Chandra Shekhar ministry from 1990 to 1991. He was a member of Lok Sabha from 1989 to 1991 and later a Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 1993 to 1998. He has also been affiliated with multiple political parties in India,including the Bharatiya Janata Party,Indian National Congress and Janata Dal.
Satish Subhashchandra Poonia is an Indian politician. Currently,He is member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly representing Amber Vidhan Sabha since 2018. He is the former president of Bharatiya Janata Party in Rajasthan.
P.L. Chaturvedi was an Indian academic who served as Chancellor of Central University of Haryana. He was previously the Vice Chancellor of Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University Ajmer University.
On 12 July 2020,around 19 members of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly,as claimed by the then Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan Sachin Pilot,flew to Delhi after disputes over different offices between rival factions of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee,starting a governmental crisis in the state of Rajasthan.
