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.
Sushma Swaraj was an Indian lawyer, politician and diplomat who served as the Former Chief Minister of Delhi, and also the Minister of External Affairs of India in the first Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. She was the second person to complete a 5-year term as the Minister of External Affairs, after Jawaharlal Nehru. A senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Swaraj was the second woman to hold the office of Minister of External Affairs, after Indira Gandhi. She was elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. At the age of 25 in 1977, she became the youngest cabinet minister of the Indian state of Haryana. She also served as Chief Minister of Delhi for a short duration in 1998 and became the first female Chief Minister of Delhi.
G. Karunakara Reddy is an Indian politician from the state of Karnataka, who is the member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Harapanahalli assembly constituency. He was made Revenue Minister in B.S Yeddyurappa Cabinet. He was previously a member of the 14th Lok Sabha from the Bellary constituency as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
M. Rajasekara Murthy was an Indian politician, who was a member 7th Lok Sabha the lower house of the Indian Parliament from the Lok Sabha constituency of Mysore in Karnataka. He also participated in the Freedom Struggle.
Ballari Sreeramulu is an Indian politician who served as Minister of Transport Department and Tribal Welfare of Karnataka from 4 August 2021 till 13 May 2023. He was the Minister of Social Welfare Department of Karnataka from 12 October 2020 to 26 July 2021. He was member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Bellary Rural Molakalmuru Constituency in Chitradurga district. He is the Social Welfare minister in the Government of Karnataka. He served as a Health and Family welfare minister previously from also as a Minister of Backward class welfare from September 2019 to October 2020. He serves in the Bharatiya Janata Party government led by B. S. Yediyurappa. He served as a member of Lok Sabha from 2014-2018 from Ballari. In March 2024, he was announced as the BJP candidate from the same constituency in the 2024 General Elections.
Dr. Mallikarjun Goud was a Union Minister, President of Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee, and six-term member of the Parliament of India. He was the member of 5th Lok Sabha, 6th Lok Sabha, 7th Lok Sabha, 9th Lok Sabha, 10th Lok Sabha, and 11th Lok Sabha of India.
Pradeep Kumar Jain Aditya, is an Indian politician from Indian National Congress (INC), who was Minister of State in Ministry of Rural Development in the 2009 Union Cabinet.
Tella Lakshmi Kantamma was an influential Indian politician who served as a member of parliament from 1962 to 1977. She was also a political advisor to Prime Minister P.V Narasimha Rao.
Tekur Subramanyam was an Indian Freedom Fighter and politician from Bellary, India. For his involvement in the Independence Movement, he was jailed several times by the British Colonial administration, many times at Bellary's Allipura Jail. Tekur was the first post-independence MP of Bellary, elected thrice in a row since 1952. He was also the Political Secretary to India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
B. Shankaranand (1925-2009) was a congress leader from Karnataka and minister in government of India.
Dajisaheb Ramrao Chavan was an Indian politician and served as a Member of parliament, Lok Sabha for 16 years. A member of the Indian National Congress, he was the former Union Deputy Minister for Defence and Law. His wife, Premala, represented his Lok Sabha seat after his death. Their son Prithviraj was Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2010 to 2014.
Lakshmi Ravindra Hebbalkar is an Indian politician from Karnataka. She is currently serving as the Minister of Women and Child Development, and Disabled and Senior Citizens Empowerment in the Government of Karnataka. As a member of the Indian National Congress, she is an elected member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Belagavi Rural.
In June 1992 a by-election was held for the New Delhi seat in the Lok Sabha. The by-election was called after the resignation of the incumbent Member of Parliament L.K. Advani.
D.K. Taradevi Siddhartha is a politician from Karnataka, India. She was a member of the 8th and 10th Lok Sabha beside the Rajya Sabha and the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.
Kamala Kumari Kareddula was an Indian politician. She was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from the Bhadrachalam, Andhra Pradesh as a member of the Indian National Congress.
V. Krishna Rao is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He was a member of the Indian National Congress from Karnataka. He served as three time member of the Lok Sabha representing Chikkaballapur. He was elected to 8th, 9th and 10th Lok Sabha.
S. Krishna Kumar is an Indian former IAS officer, technocrat, and politician from Kerala. He was a former leader of Indian National Congress in Kerala and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 20 April 2019.
Siddu Nyamagouda (1950-2018), also known as Barrage Siddu, was an Indian politician who served as the Minister of State for Coal in the Government of India. He also held the position of MLC and was elected twice as Member of the Legislative Assembly to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 2013 and 2018 from the Jamakhandi constituency in Bagalkote district.
K. Venkatagiri Gowda (1923-2004) was an Indian economist and politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the member of 10th Lok Sabha from Bangalore South. Gowda defeated the incumbent MP and former Chief Minister of Karnataka R. Gundu Rao and thus BJP won the elections for the 1st time in Bangalore South.
Indian National Congress (1954 - 2004)