Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was the 11th vice president of India. He served in that position from August 2002,when he was elected to a five-year term by the electoral college following the death of Krishan Kant,until he resigned on 21 July 2007,after losing the presidential election to Pratibha Patil. Shekhawat was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),a leading member of the National Democratic Alliance at the time of election. He served as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan three times,from 1977 to 1980,1990 to 1992 and 1993 to 1998. He represented several constituencies in Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha from 1952 to 2002. He was also awarded Padma Bhushan in the year 2003.
The Jammu &Kashmir National Panthers Party is a state political party in the state of Jammu and Kashmir,India. The party was founded on 23 March 1982 by Prof. Bhim Singh and a few prominent youth political personalities of the time including Jay Mala,former President of the Indian Students Congress. Its aim is to "demolish corruption,communalism,criminalization,drug menace" and to establish a real democracy through ultimate revolution. Panthers Party had campaigned for over three decades for the abolition of Article 370 and Article 35A,demanding that the special status of the State of Jammu and Kashmir be revoked,and for it to be fully assimilated into the Republic of India. These demands were finally met by a presidential order in August 2019 that revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special status. Panthers Party campaigns for a further division of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir,with the recognition of Hindu-majority Jammu Division as a new and separate state of India. In 2017,Ankit Love,the son of Bhim Singh and Jay Mala,announced his candidacy for Prime Minister of India for the 2019 Indian general election. He became the party's leader on 28 May 2017. On 23 June 2021,Panthers Party President Prof. Bhim Singh was reported in the media as a potential candidate for the 2022 Indian vice presidential election,as recommended for nomination by Ankit Love,just prior to meeting Prime Minister Modi at his residence for special dialogue in regards to the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir.
Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa,often referred to by his initials BSY,is an Indian politician who served as the 19th Chief Minister of Karnataka,and currently a Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He is also the only politician so far in Karnataka to have served four times as Chief Minister and three times as Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He is an MLA from Shikaripura constituency in Shimoga district,from where he has been elected eight times. He is popularly referred to as Raja Huli by the media.
Kiran Maheshwari was an Indian politician from Rajasthan state,belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Gulab Chand Kataria is an Indian politician belonging to the BJP. He was the Home minister in Government of Rajasthan from 2014 till 2018. He is a senior leader of BJP in Rajasthan and is also a member of central working committee of the party. He hails from Udaipur and has represented it in 9th Lok Sabha,the lower house of Indian Parliament. He was booked by the C.B.I. in the Sheikh fake encounter killing. He is the Leader of Opposition in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly.
Dr. Kirodi Lal Meena is an Indian Politician from the state of Rajasthan. Currently Meena is a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. Previously he has been elected as a Loksabha MP for Two terms and MLA for Rajasthan Legislative Assembly for Five terms.
Mukhtar Ansari is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. He has been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Mau constituency five times with a Bahujan Samaj Party ticket.
Samrath Lal Meena is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician in Rajasthan,India,and former Speaker of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 24 July 1998 to 4 January 1999.
Rajasthan Legislative Assembly elections,2013 was held in Indian state of Rajasthan on 1 December 2013. Results were announced on 8 December. The incumbent ruling party Indian National Congress,led by the Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot,lost the elections to Vasundhara Raje-led BJP,who was being touted as the next incumbent.
Thakur Sangeet Som is a BJP politician based in Sardhana,Meerut. He is former Member of Legislative Assembly from the Sardhana constituency.
Hanuman Beniwal is an Indian politician serving as the Member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha from Nagaur since 2019. He is founding member and National Convenor of the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party in 29 October 2018 in Jaipur. He is also former President of the University of Rajasthan Jaipur.
2017 in India highlights the national/Daily level events during the year.
Elections in the Republic of India in 2018 included by-elections to the Lok Sabha,elections to the Rajya Sabha,elections to of eight states and numerous other by-elections to state legislative assemblies,councils and local bodies.
Elections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held on 28 November 2018 to elect members of the 230 constituencies in Madhya Pradesh. It is believed that the election was a direct political battle between the BJP and the INC. One of the main centers of attraction was the contest between Congress heavy-weight Arun Yadav and the then Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. While the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government had tried to win for consecutive 4th term,the INC fought for winning the state after 2003. The election led to a hung assembly,with the INC emerging as the single largest party and the BJP winning the popular vote.
Kirti Kumari member of the erstwhile Royal Family of Bijolia,daughter of present Rao Saheb Shri Chandraveer Singh ji of Bijolia and Rani Saheb Manohar Kanwar of Auwa (Marwar). She was an alumnus of the Sophia Senior Secondary School,Ajmer &later the Sophia College where she completed her Bachelor of Arts. She worked for the Mayo College Girls School as a House Master in Jamila Singh House. Next she entered into politics and was a politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party and a member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly representing the Mandalgarh Vidhan Sabha constituency in Bhilwara district,Rajasthan. Kumari died of a swine flu infection on 28 August 2017. She was fifty years old.
Vikram Singh Saini is an Indian politician. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh representing the Khatauli assembly constituency.
In India,cow vigilante violence is the use of physical force in the name of "cow protection". Since 2014,mob attacks targeting mostly illegal cow smugglers,but in some cases even licensed cow traders,have become prominent. There is a debate on whether there has actually been any change in the number of such incidences,as Government Data points out to reduced communal tensions post 2014. Cattle slaughter is banned in most states of India. Recently emerged cow vigilante groups,claiming to be protecting cattle,have been violent leading to a number of deaths. Cow-protection groups see themselves as preventing theft,protecting the cow or upholding the law in an Indian state which bans cow slaughter. According to a Reuters report,a total of 63 cow vigilante attacks had occurred in India between 2010 and mid 2017,most after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014. In these attacks between 2010 and June 2017,"28 Indians –24 of them Muslims –were killed and 124 injured",states the Reuter's report.
Surendra Nath Singh is an Indian politician and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Bairia constituency in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Ramgarh is one of the 200 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Rajasthan state in India. It is in Alwar district and is a segment of Alwar.
On 12 July 2020,around 19 members of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly,as claimed by the then Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan Sachin Pilot,flew to Delhi after disputes over different offices between rival factions of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee,starting a governmental crisis in the state of Rajasthan.
