The Bharatiya Janata Party is one of the two major political parties in India, along with the Indian National Congress. As of 2019, it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament and state assemblies and is the world's largest party in terms of primary membership. BJP is a right-wing party, and its policy has historically reflected Hindu nationalist positions. It has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Rahul Gandhi is an Indian politician who was the President of the Indian National Congress from 16 December 2017 to 3 July 2019. He hails from a long line of politicians, known as the Nehru-Gandhi family, which has occupied a prominent place in the politics of India ever since the country gained independence in 1947. His great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru, was the first prime minister of India and also the longest-serving Prime Minister of India having served for a total of seventeen years. Gandhi's grandmother, Indira, was the first female Prime Minister of India and his father, Rajiv, was the youngest prime minister of India to be sworn in to office. The son of Sonia and Rajiv, he is the chairperson of the Indian Youth Congress and the National Students Union of India. A member of the Indian Parliament, Gandhi represents the constituency of Wayanad, Kerala in the 17th Lok Sabha.
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.
Bandaru Dattatreya is an Indian politician and the Governor of the State of Himachal Pradesh.He was the Member of Lok Sabha for Secunderabad since 2014. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Santosh, also spelled as Santhosh, is a Hindu masculine given name. The name means "Satisfaction" or "Contentment".
Santosh Kumar Gangwar is an Indian politician and the Minister of State with independent charge in the Ministry of Labour and Employment in the Government of India. He is a Member of Parliament, former minister of state in Government of India and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has been Member of Parliament for the city of Bareilly since 1989 till date. He was also the chief whip of the party in 14th Lok Sabha. He faced defeat in the 15th Lok Sabha Elections, 2009 by a very narrow margin. He has been elected as Member of Parliament in 16th Lok Sabha. He won by a margin of over 2.4 lakh votes over his rival candidate in 2014 general election.
Devaragunda Venkappa Sadananda Gowda is an Indian politician serving as the Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers in the Government of India in the Second Modi Ministry representing the Bangalore North constituency. He had also served as the 20th Chief Minister of Karnataka.
Rajnath Singh is an Indian politician serving as the Defence Minister of India. He is the former President of Bharatiya Janata Party. He has previously served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and as a Cabinet Minister in the Vajpayee Government. He was the Home Minister in the First Modi Ministry. He has also served as the President of the BJP twice, 2005 to 2009 and 2013 to 2014.
Nitte Santosh Hegde is a former judge of the Supreme Court Of India, former Solicitor General of India and was Lokayukta (ombudsman) for Karnataka State of India from 2006-2011.
Amit Anilchandra Shah is an Indian politician serving as the current Minister of Home Affairs who has been President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020. He was elected to the lower House of Parliament the Lok Sabha in the 2019 Indian general election from Gandhinagar. He was earlier elected as a member of the upper House of Parliament the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat in 2017. He also became the youngest serving full-time Home Minister at an age of 54. He is the chief strategist of the BJP and a close aide to Narendra Modi.
Kummanam Rajasekharan is an Indian politician and former Governor of Mizoram. He began his political career as an activist of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Sangh Parivar in the state of Kerala in 1970. From 2015 to 2018, he was the state president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala. He is also the first ever BJP leader from Kerala state to become Governor. and he was the organizer and root cause of religious conflict occurred in the Maradu of Kozhikode District.
Muralidhar Rao is an Indian political activist and politician, currently serving as a National General-Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Prior to joining the BJP, Rao was active in the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, where he was its Organising Secretary, as well as in other affiliates of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Mahendra Nath Pandey is an Indian politician who is the current Minister of State for Skill Development and Entreprenuership of India and Member of Lok Sabha for Chandauli since 2014. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party and is 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.
Kailash Vijayvargiya is an Indian politician currently serving as National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He started his political career in the Indore Bharatiya Janata Party, and was the Mayor of Indore, a six-time legislator who has never lost an assembly election, and a state government cabinet minister for over 12 years before being elevated to the party's central leadership.
Vellamvelly Muraleedharan is an Indian politician who is the current Union Minister of State for External Affairs & Parliamentary Affairs and he was the eighth State President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala. He is also a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament from Kerala.He was officially sworn in as an Union Minister on 30 May 2019. On 12 June 2019, V. Muraleedharan was appointed as the Government Deputy Chief Whip in the Rajya Sabha.
Muniraju Gowda P M is the current State Secretary of BJP Karnataka and Ex State president of BJP Yuva Morcha Karnataka in Karnataka. Muniraju was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He already served the party at various levels as Vice-President and General Secretary of BJP Yuva Morcha Karnataka in Karnataka. He was the youngest candidate in Karnataka to contest the Parliamentary elections in 2014.
Ram Lal is an Indian politician who is the National General Secretary (Organisation) for the Bhartiya Janata Party. He is a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh for Western Uttar Pradesh. He forms a bridge between Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Bhartiya Janata Party.
Sunil V. Deodhar is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician,Swayamsevak, BJP National Secretary, state in-charge of Tripura, Andhra Pradesh co-incharge & Founder of an Organization My Home India. In the 2014 Indian general election, Deodhar was appointed as the campaign manager to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency of Varanasi.
Ashok Katariya is an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh who is a leader of Bharatiya Janta Party. He is a Minister of State with Independent Charge for Transport and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the Government of Uttar Pradesh And General Secretary of BJP UP.
The 17th Lok Sabha was formed by the members elected in the 2019 Indian general election. Elections, all across India, were conducted in seven phases from 11 April 2019 to 19 May 2019 by the Election Commission of India. Counting started officially on the morning of 23 May 2019 and the results were declared on the same day. Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the largest party in the Lok Sabha and formed the government. Narendra Modi was sworn in as the prime minister on 30 May 2019 in an event held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
