Feroze Jehangir Gandhi was an Indian freedom fighter,politician and journalist. He served as a member of the provincial parliament between 1950 and 1952,and later a member of the Lok Sabha,the Lower house of Indian parliament. He published The National Herald and The Navjivan newspapers. His wife,Indira Gandhi,and their elder son Rajiv Gandhi were both prime ministers of India. He was a member of Indian National Congress.
Vishwanath Pratap Singh,shortened to V. P. Singh,was an Indian politician who was Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the 41st Raja Bahadur of Manda.
The Government of India is the central executive authority of the Republic of India,a federal republic located in South Asia,consisting of 28 states and eight union territories. The government is led by the prime minister who exercises the most executive power and selects all the other ministers. The country has been governed by a NDA-led government since 2014. The prime minister and their senior ministers belong to the Union Council of Ministers—its executive decision-making committee being the cabinet.
Sri Prakasa was an Indian politician,freedom-fighter and administrator. He served as India's first High Commissioner to Pakistan from 1947 to 1949,Governor of Assam from 1949 to 1950,Governor of Madras from 1952 to 1956 and Governor of Bombay from 1956 to 1962.
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon was an Indian academic,independence activist,politician,lawyer,and statesman. During his time,Menon contributed to the Indian independence movement and India's foreign relations. He was among the major architects of Indian foreign policy,and acted as Jawaharlal Nehru's diplomat.
Homi Jehangir Bhabha,FNI,FASc,FRS(30 October 1909 –24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding director and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR),as well as the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment,Trombay (AEET) which was renamed the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour. TIFR and AEET served as the cornerstone to the Indian nuclear energy and weapons programme. He was the first chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission and secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy. By supporting space science projects which initially derived their funding from the AEC,he played an important role in the birth of the Indian space programme.
Maneka Gandhi is an Indian politician,animal rights activist and environmentalist. She was a member of the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian parliament and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She is the widow of Indian politician Sanjay Gandhi. She has been a minister in four governments,most recently in Narendra Modi's government from May 2014 to May 2019.
Jairam Ramesh is an Indian politician belonging to INC. He is a Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state in the Rajya Sabha. In July 2011,Jairam was elevated to the Union Council of Ministers of India and appointed Minister of Rural Development and Minister of the new Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. However,in the cabinet reshuffle in October 2012,he was divested of the portfolio of Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. He was previously the Indian Minister of State at the Ministry of Environment and Forests from May 2009 to July 2011.
Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani,popularly known as Acharya Kripalani,was an Indian politician,noted particularly for holding the presidency of the Indian National Congress during the transfer of power in 1947 and the husband of Sucheta Kripalani. Kripalani was an environmentalist,mystic and independence activist who was long a Gandhian socialist,before joining the economically right wing Swatantra Party later in life.
Vappala Pangunni Menon was an Indian civil servant who served as Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of the States,under Sardar Patel. By appointment from Viceroy and Governor-General of India Wavell,he also served as Secretary to the Governor-General (Public) and later as Secretary to the Cabinet. He also was the Constitutional Adviser and Political Reforms Commissioner to the last three successive Viceroys during British rule in India. In May 1948,at the initiative of V. P. Menon,a meeting was held in Delhi between the Rajpramukhs of the princely unions and the States Department,at the end of which the Rajpramukhs signed new Instruments of Accession which gave the Government of India the power to pass laws in respect of all matters that fell within the seventh schedule of the Government of India Act 1935.
Chaudhary Ajit Singh was an Indian farmer leader and politician. He was the founder and chief of the Rashtriya Lok Dal,a political party recognised in the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was son of the former Prime Minister of India Chaudhary Charan Singh. He tested positive for COVID-19 and was subsequently admitted to a hospital in Gurugram. He died on 6 May 2021 after his condition deteriorated.
Shish Ram Ola was a politician from Jhunjhunu district in Rajasthan. Ola dominated the Jat politics of Shekhawati region for a period of more than four decades. He was elected in Rajasthan Legislative Assembly for seven terms and in Lok Sabha for five terms. He was a member of the Indian National Congress.
Paramasivan Subbarayan was an Indian politician,freedom fighter and diplomat and was the First Minister of Madras Presidency,India's ambassador to Indonesia and Union Minister of Transport and Communications in Jawaharlal Nehru's government. He was the father of General P. P. Kumaramangalam,who served as India's Chief of Army staff,and of politician Mohan Kumaramangalam. He was also the grandfather of INC and BJP politician and Union Minister Rangarajan Kumaramangalam.
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.
Satyendra Narayan Sinha was an Indian politician and statesman,participant in the Indian independence movement,a leading light of Jaya Prakash Narayan's ‘complete revolution’movement during the Emergency and a former Chief Minister of Bihar. Affectionately called Chhote Saheb,he was also a seven-time Member of Parliament from the Aurangabad constituency,a three-term Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly,and a Member of the Bihar Legislative Council once. Regarded to be one of India's most influential regional people of the time,his reputation was synonymous with being a strict disciplinarian and tough taskmaster.
Vidya Charan Shukla was an Indian politician whose political career spanned six decades. He was predominantly a member of the Indian National Congress,but also had spells in Jan Morcha,Janata Dal,Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya),Nationalist Congress Party and Bharatiya Janata Party. He was known as a close associate of Indira Gandhi.
Ajit Kumar Panja was a Union minister of state in the Government of India. He was a member of Indian National Congress party but left it to join Trinamool Congress. He was born in Calcutta,and studied law at the Scottish Church College,Calcutta and at the Lincoln's Inn. His Native village was a small village in Burdwan district,named Majigram. A lawyer by profession,he authored many books. He was also a stage actor who enacted the role of Ramakrishna Paramahansa in Kolkata.
The Government of Uttar Pradesh is the subnational government of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh with the governor as its appointed constitutional head of the state by the President of India. The Governor of Uttar Pradesh is appointed for a period of five years and appoints the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and their council of ministers,who are vested with the executive powers of the state. The governor remains a ceremonial head of the state,while the chief minister and their council are responsible for day-to-day government functions.
Janumpally Rameshwar Rao III (1923–1998) was an Indian lawyer,diplomat,member of parliament,and book publisher. Rao joined Indian Foreign Service in 1949 and served as commissioner for the Government of India in various African nations. He was elected as a Member of Parliament to the second,third,fourth,and fifth Lok Sabha successively during 1957–1977 from Mahabhubnagar constituency.
