Uma Bharti is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. She became involved with the Bharatiya Janata Party at a young age,unsuccessfully contesting her first parliamentary elections in 1984. In 1989,she successfully contested the Khajuraho seat,and retained it in elections conducted in 1991,1996 and 1998. In 1999,she switched constituencies and won the Bhopal seat.
Ram Boolchand Jethmalani was an Indian lawyer and politician. He served as India's Union Minister of Law and Justice,as chairman of the Indian Bar Council,and as the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association.
Shibu Soren is an Indian politician who is currently member of Rajya Sabha representing Jharkhand and the leader of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. He formerly served as 3rd Chief Minister of Jharkhand,first in 2005 for 10 days,then from 2008 to 2009 and again from 2009 to 2010. He is also the President of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) political party,a constituent of the INDIA Alliance. He was the member of Lok Sabha from Dumka from 1980 to 1984,1989 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2019 and Minister for Coal in the Union Cabinet from 2004 to 2004,2004 to 2005 and from 2006 to 2006,when a Delhi district court found him guilty in the murder of his private secretary Shashi Nath Jha in 1994. He has also been indicted in the past on other criminal charges.
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.
Asumal Sirumalani Harpalani,known by devotees as Asaram,is an Indian spiritual leader and convicted rapist,who started to come into the limelight in the early 1970s. By 2013,he was estimated to have established over 400 ashrams and 40 schools in India and abroad.
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is an Indian politician. He was a six time Member of Parliament from Kaiserganj as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the president of the Wrestling Federation of India. In 2024,his son Karan Bhushan Singh,the president of Uttar Pradesh Wrestling Federation,was fielded in his place as the BJP candidate from Kaiserganj and he won by a margin of more than 1.4 lakh votes.
Andimuthu Raja is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu,who serves as Member of Parliament for the Nilgiris constituency and deputy general secretary for the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. He was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha representing the Nilgiris constituency of Tamil Nadu and had been elected to house four times since 1996. Raja is an advocate by profession and he did his master's degree from Government Law College in Tiruchirappalli.
Tarun Tejpal is an Indian journalist,publisher,novelist and former editor-in-chief of Tehelka magazine. In November 2013,he stepped down as editor for six months after a female colleague accused him of sexual assault. On 21 May 2021,a Goa trial court presided over by Justice Kshama Joshi acquitted him of all charges.
Mohammad Azam Khan is an Indian politician,lawyer and elected representative who has served as the Member of Parliament from Rampur. He is one of the founding members of the Samajwadi Party and was a member of the Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He was also the senior most Cabinet Minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh and has been elected member of the legislative assembly ten times from Rampur assembly constituency. He was disqualified from his elected seat when he received a two-year prison sentence from the court.
The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act,2013 is an Indian legislation passed by the Lok Sabha on 19 March 2013,and by the Rajya Sabha on 21 March 2013,which provides for amendment of Indian Penal Code,Indian Evidence Act,and Code of Criminal Procedure,1973 on laws related to sexual offences. The Bill received Presidential assent on 2 April 2013 and was deemed to be effective from 3 February 2013. It was originally an Ordinance promulgated by the President of India,Pranab Mukherjee,on 3 February 2013,in light of the protests in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case.
Mulayam Singh Yadav was an Indian politician,a socialist figure and founder of the Samajwadi Party. Over the course of his political career spanning more than six decades,he served for three terms as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,and also as the Union Minister of Defence in the Government of India. A long-time parliamentarian,he was a seven-time Member of Parliament representing Mainpuri,Azamgarh,Sambhal and Kannauj constituencies in the Lok Sabha,a ten-time member of the Legislative Assembly,member of the Legislative Council and the Leader of Opposition for several times as well. The veteran politician was a prominent figure of his time in Indian politics,and was often referred to as Netaji and Dhartiputra by party leaders and workers. In 2023,the socialist leader was posthumously conferred with Padma Vibhushan,India’s second highest civilian award by the Government of India.
Ajay Rai is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress since 2012. He is a five-time MLA from Uttar Pradesh. He is the current Uttar Pradesh Congress chief.
Swami Sachchidanand Hari Sakshi Ji Maharaj,also known as Sakshi Maharaj,is an Indian political and religious leader belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He won the 2014 general election from Unnao,Uttar Pradesh. He also won Indian general election in 1991 from Mathura,1996 and 1998 from Farrukhabad. He was also a member of Rajya Sabha from 2000 to 2006,before being suspended for corruption. He holds a Ph.D. degree and runs various educational institutions and ashrams across India under the banner of Sakshi Maharaj Group for which he is also serving as its present director.
Ajay Mishra Teni is a former Member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha. He is the former Minister of State in Ministry of Home affairs,Government of India. He represents the Kheri constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party.
Swami Prasad Maurya is an Indian politician and was a member of the 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represented the Padrauna constituency of Uttar Pradesh. He was a member of Samajwadi Party till 2024 to which he resigned. Maurya has been a Member of the legislative assembly for five terms,has been a minister in the government of Uttar Pradesh,Leader of the house,and Leader of the opposition. He was serving as Cabinet Minister for Labour,Employment and Co-ordination in Yogi Adityanath ministry. Until 2021,he was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party which he joined after a long stint with Bahujan Samaj Party.
Franco Mulakkal is an Indian prelate of the Latin Catholic Church. He worked as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalandhar from 2013 until his arrest in 2018 on charges of raping a nun. He is the first bishop in Indian Catholic to be arrested for being accused in a rape case. In January 2022 the Kerala district court declared him innocent without the witnesses changing their statements. The court heard the statements of 39 witnesses in the case and he was acquitted of all charges. But the nuns are still fighting for their cause. He was forced to resign as Jalandhar bishop by the Vatican,and in June 2023 Pope accepted his resignation.
Kuldeep Singh Sengar is an Indian politician and former member of Legislative Assembly belonging to the Bhartiya Janta Party from Unnao district,Uttar Pradesh who has been convicted of rape,murder,attempt to murder,criminal conspiracy and criminal intimidation. He is the main defendant in the Unnao rape case and was booked under the POCSO Act. He is also accused of killing three people,including the victim's father in police custody and later her aunts by a conspired truck accident. A Delhi District and Sessions Court upheld an investigation conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that had ruled out any foul play in the Unnao rape survivor's accident in 2019.
Vijay Kumar Mishra is an Indian gangster and politician who has represented Gyanpur constituency on four terms as a member of Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. In November 2023,he was convivted for rape by a special MP/MLA court Bhadohi
Prajwal Revanna is an Indian politician who served as a member of the 17th Lok Sabha from Hassan Constituency. He is the third youngest member of parliament in India.
The Jasleen Kaur harassment controversy stemmed from the allegation of sexual harassment made by Jasleen Kaur against Sarvjeet Singh in 2015 and the events that followed. In August 2015,Jasleen Kaur,a woman from Delhi posted a photo of Sarvjeet Singh on Facebook,alleging that Singh had sexually harassed her. The post went viral on social media in India,garnering widespread attention. National celebrities and politicians provided Kaur with widespread support for raising her voice against eve-teasing and sexual harassment on social media.
