The Indian National Congress (INC),colloquially the Congress Party or simply the Congress,is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885,it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. At the beginning the party contained moderates and later extremists,but from the late 19th century,and especially after 1920,under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi,the Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement. The Congress led India to independence from the United Kingdom,and significantly influenced other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire.
The Lok Sabha,constitutionally the House of the People,is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament,with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past-the-post system to represent their respective constituencies,and they hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the President on the advice of the council of ministers. The house meets in the Lok Sabha Chambers of the Parliament House,New Delhi.
Iqbal Ahmed Saradgi is an Indian Politician and former member of the 14th Lok Sabha and former member of Karnataka Legislative Council for the term 2014 to 2020. He is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party.
Rabi Ray was an Indian socialist politician,a Gandhian,a speaker of the Lok Sabha and a former Union minister. He hailed from Odisha. He joined the Socialist Party in 1948,and later became member of the Samyukta Socialist Party,the Janata Party and the Janata Dal.
Lalduhoma is an Indian politician and a former Indian Police Service officer from Mizoram. Resigning from the security service to the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi,he was elected as Member of Parliament to the Lok Sabha from Mizoram in 1984. He left the Indian National Congress,the party from which he was elected,for which he was disqualified from the parliament. He became the first MP to be discharged upon anti-defection law in India.
Subhash C. Kashyap is a former Secretary-General of 7th Lok Sabha,8th Lok Sabha and 9th Lok Sabha and Lok Sabha Secretariat from 1984 to 1990. He is also a well known political scientist,an expert in the Indian Constitution,Constitutional Law,Parliamentary Experts and a distinguished scholar. He also headed an International Centre for Parliamentary Documentation,IPU at Geneva till 1983. Kashyap was Honorary Constitutional Advisor to the Government of India on Panchayati Raj Laws and Institutions. He is also Recipient of several prestigious awards for the Best Books in Constitution,Law and Political Science. At present Dr. Kashyap is an Honorary Research Professor at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR),New Delhi. He was also a Member of the National Commission to Review the Working of Constitution and Chairman of its Drafting and Editorial Committee.
Pandit Ram Kishore Shukla was an Indian politician and an activist for Indian independence.
J. Mohammed Imam was an Indian politician and 2 time Member of Parliament (MP),represented the Chitradurga constituency in Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian Parliament.
Arjunbhai Patel is an Indian politician. He was member of the Lok Sabha the lower house of Indian Parliament from Bulsar in Gujarat as a member of the Janata Dal in 1989.
Usha Sinha is an Indian politician. She was elected to the Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from Vaishali,Bihar as member of the Janata Dal. However she joined breakaway led by Chandrsekhar and became the Union Minister of State,Tourism.She contested the 1991 elections as an Indian National Congress but lost to Sheo Sharan Singh.
Ashokrao Anandrao Deshmukh is an Indian former politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from Parbhani,Maharashtra as a member of the Shiv Sena.
Manubhai Kotadia was an Indian politician. He was elected to 9th Lok Sabha in 1989 on Janata Dal ticket from Amreli constituency. He was Minister of Agriculture and Power in Gujarat. He also served as Minister of State,Water Resources from December 1989 to November 1990 in VP Singh government.
Iswar Marandi was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from Rajmahal,Bihar as a member of the Indian National Congress. Marandi died whilst in office,on 7 August 1972,at the age of 53.
C. P. Mudalagiriyappa is an Indian politician and leader of Indian National Congress from Karnataka. He was a 3-time Member of Parliament (MP) and represented Chitradurga in the Lok Sabha the lower house of the Parliament of India.<re He was also a Member of the Indian Parliamentary Delegation led by the Hon'ble Speaker,Shri G.M.C. Balayogi to Iraq in 1998.
Raj Mangal Pande was an Indian politician. He was elected to 9th Lok Sabha from Deoria constituency of Uttar Pradesh as a member of the Janata Dal. He served as Minister of Human Resource Development in Chandra Shekhar government from 1990 to 1991.
Krishna Marandi is an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament,representing Singhbhum,Bihar in the Lok Sabha the lower house of India's Parliament as a member of the Jharkhand Party
Defection by legislators occurs in many democracies. It can be argued that they can undermine the stability of the cabinet,which is dependent on the support of elected legislators. The argument follows that such instability can amount to a betrayal of the people's mandate,as voiced at the most recent prior election.
Hemendra Singh Banera was an Indian politician. At age 25,Singh Banera was elected as one of the youngest members in the history of the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India,representing Bhilwara,Rajasthan as a member of the Janata Dal.
Sahebrao Patil Dongaonkar is an Indian politician,elected to the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India as a member of the Indian National Congress.
Imchalemba is an Indian politician from Nagaland. He was elected as the Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha twice,representing the state in the 10th Lok Sabha and 11th Lok Sabha. He was also the founding editor of the defunct newspaper,Nagaland Times.
