Sushilkumar Sambhaji Shinde is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He was the Minister of Home Affairs,Minister of Power in the Manmohan Singh government,and the Leader of the House in Lok Sabha until 26 May 2014. He previously served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 18 January 2003 to 4 November 2004.
The 14th Lok Sabha was convened after the 2004 Indian general election held in four phases during 20 April –10 May 2004,which led to the formation of first Manmohan Singh ministry (2004–2009). Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance won 62 more seats than previous 13th Lok Sabha. The Lok Sabha is the lower house in the Parliament of India. 8 sitting members from Rajya Sabha,the Upper House of Indian Parliament,were elected to 14th Lok Sabha after the 2004 Indian general election.
Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi is a regional political party in the Vasai-Virar region of Maharashtra. It was originally known as Vasai Vikas Aaghadi. The party is led and founded by Hitendra Thakur who was a one-time member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on an Indian National Congress ticket and two time independent MLA before founding the party.
Meira Kumar is an Indian politician and former diplomat. A member of the Indian National Congress,she was the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment from 2004 to 2009,the Minister of Water Resources for a brief period in 2009. She served as the 15th Speaker of Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014,being the first woman to hold the post. Kumar became just the second woman to be nominated for president of India by a major political block when she secured the United Progressive Alliance's nomination in 2017.
Sushma Swaraj was an Indian lawyer,politician and diplomat who served as the Minister of External Affairs of India in the first Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. She was the second person to complete a 5-year term as the Minister of External Affairs,after Jawaharlal Nehru. A senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),Swaraj was the second woman to hold the office of Minister of External Affairs,after Indira Gandhi. She was elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. At the age of 25 in 1977,she became the youngest cabinet minister of the Indian state of Haryana. She also served as Chief Minister of Delhi for a short duration in 1998 and became the first female Chief Minister of Delhi.
Manikrao Hodlya Gavit was an Indian politician from Nandurbar district of Maharashtra,India. A member of the Indian National Congress (INC),he represented the Nandurbar constituency from 1980 to 2014,winning the Indian general elections consecutive nine times,marking a record.
Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil is a former Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Shirur and member of the Nationalist Congress Party. Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil won the Shirur Lok Sabha seat by margin of 301,814 votes. He is also a member of the 14th Lok Sabha and 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Shirur constituency in Pune District of Maharashtra.
Kambadahalli Hanumappa Muniyappa is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is a seven time Member of the Parliament from Kolar Lok Sabha constituency and also served as a Cabinet Minister.
Ranjeet Ranjan also known as Ranjeeta is an Indian politician serving as Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from Chhattisgarh. She was member of the 14th Lok Sabha as a Member of Parliament from Supaul,Bihar from the Indian National Congress party.
Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India. It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee.
Navsari is one of the 26 Lok Sabha constituencies in Gujarat,a state in western India. This constituency was created as a part of the implementation of delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in 2008. It first held elections in 2009 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Chandrakant Raghunath Patil of the Bharatiya Janata Party. As of the latest elections in 2024,Patil represents this constituency.
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar is an Indian physician and politician from West Bengal. She is Chairperson of Banga Janani Bahini,a women's wing of Trinamool Congress. She is a member of 15th,16th and 17th Lok Sabha,re-elected in 2014 Indian general election and 2019.
Rajeev Shankarrao Satav was an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress. At the time of his death,he was the member of the Rajya Sabha the upper house of Indian Parliament from Maharashtra.
Mausam Benazir Noor is an Indian politician serving as Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from West Bengal and Vice Chairperson of West Bengal Commission for Women. She has served as President of Malda district TMC. She has also served as a Member of Lok Sabha for Maldaha Uttar from 2009 until 2019.
Chandrakant Raghunath Patil,better known as C. R. Patil,is an Indian Politician who is serving as the 2nd Minister of Jal Shakti since 2024. He is member of the current 18th Lok Sabha of India. Since 2020,he is also the President of BJP Gujarat State unit. He is the first non-Gujarati to hold this position. His name is also spelled C. R. Paatil at times. He is a three-time Member of Parliament elected from Navsari in Gujarat.
Rangaswamy Dhruvanarayana was an Indian politician and member of Parliament of Lok Sabha. He was a member of the 15th and 16th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Chamarajanagar constituency of Karnataka and was a member of the Indian National Congress.
Members of the 16th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2014 Indian general election. The elections were conducted in 9 phases from 7 April 2014 to 12 May 2014 by the Election Commission of India. The results of the election were declared on 16 May 2014.
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.
Amarsinh Vasanthrao Patil is an Indian politician,and member of 13th Lok Sabha. He was runner up for 13th Lok Sabha election and 15th Lok Sabha elections from Belgaum. Before being elected to Lok Sabha,he was the President Belgaum district Zila Parishad. He is the son of V.L. Patil,a politician and freedom fighter. His brother Vivekrao Vasanthrao Patil is an elected member of the legislative council and was elected independently with a record victory margin that was the highest in the state since independence. He was elected director of the Karnataka Milk Federation and then elected as the chairman. Vivekrao is a member of the Belgaum Chamber of Commerce,a chairman of the Raibag Sugar Factory and a chairman of the Belgaum District Co-operative bank. He runs a chain of over 50 educational institutions in Karnataka,Maharashtra and Goa. He is also a writer and among other things has written several novels. One of them,Dawn to Dust,was a best selling romantic tragedy novel in Europe and India. A Bollywood movie (Dhadkan) was based on it.
Vishal Prakashbapu Patil is an Indian politician and Lok Sabha MP representing Sangli since 2024. He is a member of the Indian National Congress and was elected as an Independent from Sangli.
