Purno Agitok Sangma was an Indian politician who has served as the 4th Chief Minister of Meghalaya from 1988 to 1990 and the 11th Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998. He served as a member of the Lok Sabha from Tura in Meghalaya from 2014 to 2016,1991 to 2008 and from 1977 to 1989 and the minister of Information and Broadcasting in the Rao ministry from 1995 to 1996. He was the founder of National People's Party and co-founder of Nationalist Congress Party.
Angul district;also known as Anugul,is one of the thirty districts of Odisha in eastern India. The city of Angul is the district headquarters of Angul district. A major industrial hub of the state,the district hosts numerous industries relating to coal,bauxite and steel apart from extensive forests including the Satkosia Tiger Reserve.
Bandaru Dattatreya is an Indian politician serving as the current governor of the State of Haryana since 2021. He was also the 20th governor of Himachal Pradesh and was the member of Lok Sabha for Secunderabad from 2014 to 2019. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi is an Indian politician from Karnataka and currently a member of Lok Sabha. He was Union Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation in 2016. He was member of the Twelfth,Thirteenth,Fourteenth,Fifteenth and Sixteenth Lok Sabha. He was inducted into PM,Narendra Modi's government as a Minister of State for Drinking Water &Sanitation on July 5,2016. He represents the Bijapur constituency (2019-2024) and is currently a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party which he joined in 2002. He has also been a member of Janata Dal and Ramakrishna Hegde's Vedike Party and Ram Vilas Paswan's Jan Shakti Party in 2001 when Hegde was planning to retire.
Kashiram Rana was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of India. In 1989,he was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha from Surat constituency in Gujarat. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991,1996,1998,1999 and 2004 from the same constituency. He served as a union cabinet minister in the department of textiles,twice,in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee led NDA govt during 1998–2004. He died on 31 August 2012.
Bachi Singh Rawat,was an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India and a 4 time MP. He represented the Almora constituency of Uttarakhand.
Bhartruhari Mahtab is an Indian politician from Odisha and is nominated to serve as the pro tem speaker of the Lok Sabha in June 2024. He has been a member of Lok Sabha from 1998 to 2024. Before 2024 election,he joined BJP. He was inducted to the party by Vinod Tawde,Dharmendra Pradhan and Baijayant Panda.
Dharmendra Pradhan is an Indian politician who serving as Union Minister of Education since 2021. He also served as Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in the Government of India from 2021 to 2024. An alumnus of Talcher College and Utkal University,he has also been the Minister of Petroleum &Natural Gas and the Minister of Steel.
Jual Oram is an Indian Politician who serving as Minister of Tribal Affairs since 2024. He also Member of the 17th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Sundargarh constituency of Odisha. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Faggan Singh Kulaste is an Indian politician. He served as the Minister of State for Rural Development and Steel of India in the Government of India. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was sworn in as Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel on 30 May 2019 under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kulaste is elected as a member of the 17th Lok Sabha (2019–2024). He represents the Mandla constituency of Madhya Pradesh. He was also Minister of State in Modi government. He has previously been a member of the 11th,12th,13th,14th,16th and 17th Lok Sabha.
Chaman Lal Gupta was an Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir,belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party. He was union minister of state of defence from 2002 to 2004. Earlier,he held a portfolio of food processing and civil aviation.
Bhavna Chikhalia was a Minister of State of Parliamentary Affairs and of Tourism and Culture in Government of India from 2003 to 2004. She was also a member of Lok Sabha and the first lady of Gujarat who won four consecutive term of Lok Sabha from Junagadh constituency,Gujarat. She was executive secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Wing from 1993 to 1996,and party Whip and Party Vice President in 1998. She was Chairperson of the Railway Convention Committee during 1999–2002.
Phanindranath Rangarajan Kumaramangalam was a prominent politician of the Indian National Congress and later the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of parliament,Lok Sabha from the Salem constituency from 1984 to 1996 and Tiruchirapalli constituency from 1998 to 2000. He served as the Minister of State for Law,Justice and Company Affairs in the P. V. Narasimha Rao government from July 1991 to December 1993 and as the Union Minister for Power in the Vajpayee Government from 1998 to 2000. He was the grandson of former Chief Minister of Madras,P. Subbarayan and the nephew of former Indian Chief of Army,General P. P. Kumaramangalam.
Pon Radhakrishnan is an Indian politician representing the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Shipping between May 2014 and May 2019. Earlier,he served as the Union Minister of State for Road Transport &Highways in the NDA government. He has also served as the Minister of State for Youth affairs and Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation in Third Vajpayee Ministry. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu in 2014. He lost in the recent 2019 and 2021 (by-election) parliamentary elections.
Sambalpur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Odisha state in eastern India. This constituency covers the whole Sambalpur district and parts of Deogarh and Angul districts.
Deogarh Lok Sabha constituency was a Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency in Orissa state in eastern India till 2008. Assembly constituencies which constituted this parliamentary constituency were:Pallahara,Talcher,Brajarajnagar,Jharsuguda,Laikera,Kuchinda and Deogarh. After 2008,some of the constituencies went into Bargarh and some into Dhenkanal.
Dilipkumar Mansukhlal Gandhi was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party. He was the member of the 15th Lok Sabha &16th Lok Sabha of India.
Sriballav Panigrahi was an Indian politician,a leader of the Indian National Congress party in Odisha and was a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC). He was elected to the Parliament of India from the Deogarh Lok Sabha constituency,three times,1984,1991 and 1996.
Prasanna Pattnaik is an Indian politician and the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA of Odisha. He has been elected three times to the Odisha Legislative Assembly from Kamakhyanagar constituency.
Nitesh Ganga Deb is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from Sambalpur,Odisha in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is also the current titular King of the former princely state of Bamra(modern Deogarh district) and head of Bamanda branch of Eastern Ganga Dynasty.
