Shankarrao Bhavrao Chavan was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Maharashtra twice from 1975 until 1977 and from 13 March 1986 until 26 June 1988. He was the finance minister of India from 1988 to 1989 in Rajiv Gandhi ministry. He also served as the home minister of India twice,from 31 December 1984 to 12 March 1986 in the Rajiv Gandhi cabinet,and from 21 June 1991 to 16 May 1996 in the P. V. Narasimha Rao cabinet.
Ram Vilas Paswan was an Indian politician from Bihar and the Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Distribution in the first and second Modi ministries. Paswan was also the president of the Lok Janshakti Party,nine-times Lok Sabha member and two-time Rajya Sabha MP. He started his political career as member of Samyukta Socialist Party and was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1969. Later,Paswan joined Lok Dal upon its formation in 1974,and became its general secretary. He opposed the emergency,and was arrested during this period. He first entered the Lok Sabha in 1977,as a Janata Party member from Hajipur constituency,and was elected again in 1980,1989,1991,1996,1998,1999,2004 and 2014.
Narayan Tatu Rane is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg. He was former Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He former serves as Minister of Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises in the Second Modi ministry. He has previously held Cabinet Ministry positions for Industry,Port,Employment and Self-employment;Revenue;and Industry in the Government of Maharashtra.
Pramod Venkatesh Mahajan was an Indian politician from Maharashtra. A second-generation leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),he belonged to a group of relatively young "technocratic" leaders. At the time of his death,he was in a power struggle for the leadership of the BJP,given the imminent retirement of its aging top brass.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is an Indian politician and was the Union Minister of Minority Affairs. He had served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from 2002 to 2022 and was Deputy Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha between 2021 and 2022.
Ramdas Bandu Athawale is an Indian politician,social activist and trade unionist from Maharashtra. He is the president of the Republican Party of India (A),a splinter group of the Republican Party of India and has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar since 1999. Currently,he is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment,Government of India since 2016 and represents Maharashtra in Rajya Sabha,the upper house of India's Parliament since 2014. Previously,he was Lok Sabha MP from Pandharpur from 1999 to 2009 and from Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha constituency from 1998 to 1999. He was also Cabinet minister of Maharashtra from 1990 to 1995 and a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council from 1990 to 1996.
The 10th Lok Sabha,elected during 1991 Indian general election held during May–June 1991. The Lok Sabha is the lower house in the Parliament of India,four sitting members from Rajya Sabha,the Upper House of Indian Parliament,were elected to 10th Lok Sabha after the Indian general election,1991.
Bhagat Singh Koshyari is an Indian politician who served as the 22nd governor of Maharashtra from 2019 to 2023. An RSS veteran,Koshyari served as National Vice-President of BJP and party's 3rd State president for Uttarakhand. He also served as 2nd Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2001 to 2002 and thereafter,was the leader of the opposition in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2003. He also served as an MLC in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council and MLA in Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. He later served as an MP in Rajya Sabha from 2008 to 2014 from Uttarakhand and then the MP in the 16th Lok Sabha from Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar constituency,earning him the distinction of being elected in both houses of State Legislature and both houses of National Parliament respectively.
Nitin Jairam Gadkari is an Indian politician from Maharashtra who serving as 40th Minister for Road Transport &Highways in the Government of India since 2024. He is also the longest serving Minister for Road Transport &Highways currently running his tenure for over nine years. Gadkari earlier served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2009 to 2013. He is also known for his work as the Public Works Department Minister of the State of Maharashtra,where,under his leadership,a series of roads,highways and flyovers across the state were constructed.
Prithviraj Chavan is an Indian politician who was the 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2010 to 2014. Chavan is a graduate of BITS Pilani and University of California,Berkeley in mechanical engineering. He spent time working in the field of aircraft instrumentation and designing audio recorders for anti-submarine warfare in the US before returning to India and becoming an entrepreneur in 1974. Referred to in the media as a technocrat with a clean,non-controversial image,a low-profile leader. Chavan served as the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Personnel,Public Grievances,and Pensions. Chavan was also General Secretary of the All-India Congress Committee (AICC),in-charge of many states,including Jammu and Kashmir,Karnataka,Haryana,Gujarat,Tripura,and Arunachal Pradesh.
Rajkumar Dhoot is a Member of Parliament representing the State of Maharashtra,India as a member of the Shiv Sena party. He is the ex-president of the Apex Indian Chamber of Commerce &Industry,ASSOCHAM and is also the Promoter &Co-Owner of the diversified Videocon Group of Companies. His father,the late Shri Nandlal Madhavlal Dhoot,was an Indian Industrialist and the founder of Videocon Group.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar is an entrepreneur and technocrat. .He formerly served as the Minister of State for the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology,Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship,and Ministry of Jal Shakti. From 2006 to 2024,he was a member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing Karnataka. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He lost his government credentials after losing elections in Thiruvananthapuram and was not offered a ministerial position in new coalition formed under National Democratic Alliance. He contested in 2024 lok sabha election in Thiruvananthapuram Lok sabha parliamentary and lost to the incumbent MP Shashi Tharoor by 16077 votes.
Prakash Keshav Javadekar is an Indian politician and former parliamentarian. He served as the Minister of Environment,Forest and Climate Change two times,from May 2014 to July 2016 and from May 2019 to July 2021.
Piyush Vedprakash Goyal is an Indian politician and chartered accountant who serving as Minister of Commerce and Industry since 2019. He also served as Minister of Textiles and Minister of Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Distribution. He was elevated to the Cabinet Minister position on 3 September 2017. Currently a Member of Parliament for Rajya Sabha from the state of Maharashtra,he is also the current Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha. Goyal was elected as member of 18th Lok Sabha Representing Mumbai North Lok Sabha constituency.
Jagat Prakash "J. P." Nadda is an Indian lawyer and politician who 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.
The Indian state of Maharashtra has a bicameral legislature,comprising two houses. The lower house,known as the Legislative Assembly,is directly elected by the people and is the more powerful of the two houses. The upper house,known as the Legislative Council is elected indirectly by several specially designated electorates.
Subhash Ramrao Bhamre is an Indian politician and reelected in 17th Lok Sabha. He was a member of the 16th Lok Sabha. He represents the Dhule constituency of Maharashtra and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party. His mother Gojarbai Ramrao Bhamre was an MLA and a member of the Indian National Congress.
Kapil Moreshwar Patil is politician from Bhiwandi in Maharashtra,India. He became the Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ministry reshuffle on July 7,2021. He belong to Koli community of Maharashtra.
Imtiyaz Jaleel Syed,also known as Syed Imtiyaz Jaleel,is an Indian politician and member of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen. In 2019 General Elections,Jaleel was elected as Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha from Aurangabad Lok Sabha Constituency. He was elected as member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Aurangabad Central constituency in 2014. He is also the state president of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen in Maharashtra as well as a member of the Standing Committee of the Urban Development (UD).
Dr. Vikas Mahatme is Padmashri Awarded Indian ophthalmologist,social entrepreneur,visionary and a former member of the Parliament in Rajya Sabha. Born in Amravati,he comes from Nagpur in the state of Maharashtra. He is well known across Maharashtra for his charitable and social works. He founded a charitable trust –S. Mahatme Eye Welfare Charitable Trust that runs Mahatme Eye Bank eye hospital in Nagpur as well as branches in Mumbai,Amravati,Gadchiroli and Pune. He received the Padma Shri for his charitable community work as an ophthalmologist. In June 2016,Mahatme was the Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate for the Rajya Sabha biennial elections,which he won unopposed. His candidature was strongly backed by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari. He belongs to the Dhangar community. He has expressed support for implementing Scheduled Tribe reservation for Dhangar community in Maharashtra and is its first community member to get elected to parliament. He is currently a member of the Indian Nursing Council.
