Murli Manohar Joshi is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of which he was the President between 1991 and 1993. Joshi is the former Member of Parliament from Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency. He is a former professor of physics in University of Allahabad. He is one of the senior most leaders of the BJP and one of the founding members. Joshi later became the Union Human Resources &Development Minister in the National Democratic Alliance government. Joshi was awarded Padma Vibhushan,the second-highest civilian award,in 2017 by the Government of India. Joshi has been a member of RSS since his college days.
Vasundhara Raje Scindia is an Indian politician,who has held two terms as the chief minister of Rajasthan. She was previously a minister in the Union Cabinet of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and was India's first Minister of Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries,which now known as Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises. In 2003,she became the first woman to serve as the Chief Minister for the state of Rajasthan. She is currently one of the national vice presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). A member of the Scindia family,she is also the matriarch of the Bamraulia family of Dholpur.
Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is a political party based primarily in the Indian state of Haryana. It was initially founded as the Haryana Lok Dal (Rashtriya) by Devi Lal in 1996,who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India.
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 ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also has several dynastic leaders. In addition to the major national parties,other national and regional parties such as Shiromani Akali Dal,Shiv Sena,Samajwadi Party,Rashtriya Janata Dal,Janata Dal Secular,Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,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.
Sunder Lal Patwa was an Indian politician,who served as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and a cabinet minister in the Government of India. He was Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh twice,from 20 January 1980 to 17 February 1980 and from 5 March 1990 to 15 December 1992.
Kailash Chandra Joshi was an Indian politician who was the 9th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in 1970s. Later he was a member of Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh (2000-2004),and a member of Lok Sabha (2004-2014) from Bhopal belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He started his political career with the Bharatiya Jana Sangh,which later morphed into BJP.
Captain Sachin Rajesh Pilot is an Indian politician. A member of the Indian National Congress,he has been serving as Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Tonk since 2018. He has previously served as Minister of State of Corporate Affairs and Communication and IT in the Government of India under Manmohan Singh. Additionally he served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 2018 to 2020 under Ashok Gehlot. Pilot became the youngest citizen of India to become Member of Parliament at the age of 26.
Lt. Col. Maharaja Manabendra Shah was a member of the 2nd,3rd,4th,10th,11th,12th,13th and 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Tehri Garhwal constituency of Uttarakhand and was a member of the Indian National Congress before joining the Bharatiya Jan Sangh and later the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party. He became one of the BJP's longest-serving members. Shah was ambassador to Ireland from 1980 to 1983.
Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi is an Indian politician who is Minister of Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Distribution,10th Minister of New and Renewable Energy since 2024. He was also the Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs,Coal and Mines of India,from 2019 to 2024 and Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha,since 2004,representing the Dharwad Lok Sabha constituency. He was also the State President of Bharatiya Janata Party,Karnataka (BJP) from 2014 to 2016. He served in the panel of chairpersons of Lok Sabha (2014–2018).
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.
Daggubati Purandeswari is an Indian politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. She is the president of Bharatiya Janata Party,Andhra Pradesh. She is currently serving as a Member of Parliament of Lok Sabha representing the Rajahmundry Lok Sabha constituency.
C. P. Joshi is an Indian politician and a five-time MLA from Nathdwara,Rajasthan. He was born in a Brahmin family in Nathdwara,Rajasthan and he is a member of the Indian National Congress. He has previously served as Speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. Previously,he was the Member of Parliament of India from Bhilwara in the 15th Lok Sabha. He was one of the first 19 members of India's new cabinet sworn in on 22 May 2009,despite being a first-time member of the Lok Sabha. As a union minister,Joshi held key portfolios like Road Transport and Highways,and Rural Development and Panchayati Raj in the Second Manmohan Singh ministry. Moreover,he was also a Cabinet Minister of the Government of Rajasthan from 1998 to 2003.
Banwarilal Purohit is an Indian politician who is serving as 29th Governor of Punjab,India and Administrator of Chandigarh from September 2021. He was the former Governor of Tamil Nadu from 2017 to 2021,and former Governor of Assam from 2016 to 2017. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a Member of Parliament from the Nagpur three times,twice as an Indian National Congress member,once as a BJP member.
Om Birla is an Indian politician and businessman from Rajasthan. He is currently serving as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha since 19 June 2019,when he was re-elected for a second term in June 2024. He serves as a Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha from Kota constituency in Rajasthan since 2014. In 2024,he became the first person in twenty years to be re-elected as an MP to the lower house,after serving as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha,and also one of only two MPs to be appointed the speaker twice.
Subhash Chandra Baheria is an Indian politician and a three-term Member of Parliament elected to Lok Sabha in 1996,2014 and 2019 from Bhilwara in Rajasthan as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was also elected as MLA from same constituency in 2003. He is a Chartered Accountant (CA),only CA from the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Lok Sabha currently and one of the two qualified Chartered Accountants in the 17th Lok Sabha.
Bharatiya Janata Party,Rajasthan is a state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Rajasthan. Chandra Prakash Joshi is the current president of the BJP Rajasthan. Vasundhara Raje was the previous Chief Minister of Rajasthan during 2013–2018,previously she served in the same post from 2003 to 2008. She was the first female Chief Minister of Rajasthan. And the former president of the BJP Rajasthan.
Arun Singh is an Indian politician who holds the position of National General Secretary and Head Quarter In-charge of Bharatiya Janata Party. Singh is currently serving his second term as the Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha. Over the period,Singh has discharged the responsibility as BJP's State Incharge of various states,including Andhra Pradesh,Rajasthan,Karnataka,Odisha,Jharkhand and Ladakh.
Jagdeep Dhankhar is an Indian politician and lawyer,serving as the 14th and current vice president of India since 2022. He previously served as the Governor of West Bengal from 2019 to 2022. He also served as a Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the Chandra Shekhar ministry from 1990 to 1991. He was a member of Lok Sabha from 1989 to 1991 and later a Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 1993 to 1998. He has also been affiliated with multiple political parties in India,including the Bharatiya Janata Party,Indian National Congress and Janata Dal.
Satish Subhashchandra Poonia is an Indian politician. He was member of the 15th Rajasthan Assembly from Amber. He served as the state president of Bharatiya Janata Party for Rajasthan. He briefly also served as deputy leader of the opposition in Rajasthan Assembly. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Vishvaraj Singh Mewar is an Indian politician and a member of the erstwhile royal House of Mewar. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party and was elected as MLA from Nathdwara constituency. He defeated incumbent C.P. Joshi,five-term incumbent MLA and former Speaker of the Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha.
