Ranchi is the capital of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Ranchi was the centre of the Jharkhand movement,which called for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar,northern Orissa,western West Bengal and the eastern area of what is present-day Chhattisgarh. The Jharkhand state was formed on 15 November 2000 by carving out the Bihar divisions of Chota Nagpur and Santhal Parganas. Ranchi has been selected as one of the hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under PM Narendra Modi's flagship Smart Cities Mission.
National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is an Indian big tent political alliance led by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It was founded in 1998 and currently controls the government of India as well as the government of 17 Indian states,and 3 Union Territories.
Vasundhara Raje Scindia is an Indian politician and a former chief minister of Rajasthan. She was previously a minister in the Union Cabinet of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and is 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.
Arjun Munda is an Indian politician. He is the current Minister of Tribal Affairs in the Second Modi ministry. He was also Chief Minister of Indian state of Jharkhand. He has also served as a member of parliament having been elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from the Jamshedpur constituency in the 2009 parliamentary elections. BJP's central leadership also appointed him a National General Secretary of the party recognising his strong credentials as a popular mass leader and his significant contributions in strengthening the party in his state.
Kariya Munda is an Indian politician and the former Deputy Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha. He has been a former minister in the Government of India,in the Governments led by the Janata Party in 1977 and by Bhartiya Janata Party,from 1999 onwards.
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia is an Indian politician who serves as the Minister of Civil Aviation. He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing the State of Madhya Pradesh.
Babulal Marandi is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was the first Chief Minister of Jharkhand and current Leader of the Opposition in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. He was the founder and national President of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik). He was the Member of Parliament in 12th,13th 14th and 15th Lok Sabha from Jharkhand. He was the Union State Minister (MoS) for Forests &Environment of India in the BJP –led National Democratic Alliance Government in 1998 to 2000.
Syed Sibtey Razi is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress who has served as the Governor of the states of Assam and Jharkhand in addition to also serving as the deputy home minister of India.
Jagadambi Prasad Yadav was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and a minister of state Health and Family Welfare from 1977 to 1979 and then minister of state Commerce and Industry in the Morarji Desai Government of India. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Godda in Jharkhand. At the time of his death in 2002,he was Convenor of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Languages. He was President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in Bihar as well as Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party from 1981 to 1984.
Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) was a state political party in the Indian state of Jharkhand which was founded by former Union Minister and First Chief Minister of Jharkhand,Babulal Marandi.
Hemant Soren is an Indian politician from Jharkhand,who is the current Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Previously,he had also served as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand from July 2013 to December 2014. He is also the president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,a political party in Jharkhand.
Ajay Kumar Bhandary,a former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer,was elected as the MP in the 15th Lok Sabha,from the Jamshedpur Lok Sabha constituency. He is the AICC In-charge of 3 states namely Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee,Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee and Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee. He is a member of the CWC. He is also the National Spokesperson of Indian National Congress. He was also the Former President of Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee.
Raghubar Das is an Indian politician who served as the sixth Chief Minister of Jharkhand. He was sworn in as the 6th chief minister of Jharkhand on 28 December 2014. He belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party and have twice served as the president of Jharkhand BJP,Currently he is National Vice President of Bjp.
Ravindra Kumar Ray is an Indian politician and member of parliament from Koderma constituency,Jharkhand. He won in the Indian general election in 2014 as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. He was the Mines and Mineral minister of Jharkhand during Babu Lal Marandi’s government and later became the Cabinet minister of Industry and Labour during the Arjun Munda government. Dr. Ravindra Ray played an important role in the formation of Jharkhand and was the first person to propose the idea of having a CM of the MLA’s choice in the state.
The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election,2014 was held in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in five phases from 25 November –20 December 2014. Voters elected 87 members to the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly,which ends its six-year term on 19 January 2015. The results were declared on 23 December 2014. Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) along with EVMs were used in 3 assembly seats out of 87 in Jammu Kashmir elections.
Parimal Dhirajlal Nathwani is an Indian politician and industrialist. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha,upper house of the Parliament of India from Andhra Pradesh in the 2020 Rajyasabha elections for the third time earlier he was elected twice from Jharkhand. He was an entrepreneur and a trader until the mid-1990s. He joined Reliance Group in 1997. As of 2016,he was the Group President of Corporate Affairs at Reliance Industries Ltd.,a part of the headed by Mukesh Ambani. Nathwani closely worked with Dhirubhai Ambani and now has been working with RIL CMD Mukesh Ambani.He is a key member in the core leadership at RIL. Nathwani helped Dhirubhai Ambani in realizing his dream. He played a pivotal role in land acquisition and setting up the biggest grassroots crude oil refinery on the western coast near Jamnagar in Gujarat.
Mahesh Poddar is a member of Rajya Sabha from the Jharkhand constituency. He is currently the State Treasurer of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and also an industrialist from Jharkhand.
Annpurna Devi Yadav is an Indian politician,who is the current Minister of State for Education in the Second Modi ministry. She is also a Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha from Kodarma,Jharkhand in which she won the 2019 Indian general election as member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She is also one of the National Vice Presidents of BJP. Previously,she was elected to the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly,from Kodarma as a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal.
Deepak Prakash is an Indian politician and a member of the Rajya Sabha from Jharkhand. He is also the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Jharkhand Unit. He has also held the posts of vice-president and secretary in the past in BJP's Jharkhand unit.
