The Bajrang Dal is a Hindu nationalist militant organisation that forms the youth wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP). It is a member of the right-wing Sangh Parivar. The ideology of the organisation is based on Hindutva. It was founded on 1 October 1984 in Uttar Pradesh,and began spreading more in the 2010s throughout India,although its most significant base remains the northern and central portions of the country.
The Sangh Parivar refers,as an umbrella term,to the collection of Hindu nationalist organisations spawned by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),which remain affiliated to it. These include the political party Bharatiya Janata Party,religious organisation Vishva Hindu Parishad,students union Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP),religious militant organisation Bajrang Dal that forms the youth wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP),and the worker's union Bharatiya Kisan Sangh. It is also often taken to include allied organisations such as the Shiv Sena,which share the ideology of the RSS. The Sangh Parivar represents the Hindu nationalist movement of India. Members of the Sangh Parivar or the supporters of its ideology are called Sanghis.
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.
Pravin Togadia is an Indian doctor,cancer surgeon and an advocate for Hindu nationalism,coming from the state of Gujarat. He was the former International Working President of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and a cancer surgeon by qualification. He is Current President of Antarashtriya Hindu Parishad. He had a falling out with the Sangh Parivar and is a vocal critic of Narendra Modi.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is serving as the 17th and current Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh since 2020 and again from 2005 to 2018 and a Member of Legislative Assembly in Madhya Pradesh from Budhni since 2006 and again from 1990 to 1991. He is the longest serving Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. He was also the former National Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party from 2019 to 2020,a member of the Parliamentary Board and a member of the Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the National President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha from 2000 to 2002. He was also Member of Lok Sabha representing Vidisha from 1991 to 2005. As a leader of the BJP,Chouhan served as General Secretary and President of Madhya Pradesh state unit. He joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1972,as a 13-year-old. He is known for launching the schemes Ladli Lakshmi Yojana and Beti Bachao Abhiyan.
Digvijaya Singh is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He is Ex-General Secretary of the Indian National Congress party's All India Congress Committee. Previously,he had served as the 14th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh,a central Indian state,for two terms from 1993 to 2003. Prior to that he was a minister in Chief Minister Arjun Singh's cabinet between 1980–84. In 2019 Lok Sabha elections he was defeated by Pragya Singh Thakur for Bhopal Lok Sabha seat.
Kamal Patel is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He has served as a Member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly five times in 1993,1998,2003,2008,and 2018 representing the Harda Constituency. On 21 April 2020,he was appointed as the Cabinet Minister and currently serves as the Minister of Agriculture in the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Ramsevak Singh is an Indian politician and is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India,where he represented the Gwalior constituency of Madhya Pradesh.
Gwalior Lok Sabha seat is one of the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh state. This constituency covers the entire Gwalior district and part of Shivpuri district.
The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) is an Indian right-wing Hindu organization based on Hindu nationalism. The VHP was founded in 1964 by M. S. Golwalkar and S. S. Apte in collaboration with Swami Chinmayananda. Its stated objective is "to organise,consolidate the Hindu society and to serve and protect the Hindu Dharma". It was established to construct and renovate Hindu temples,and deal with matters of cow slaughter and religious conversion. The VHP is a member of the Sangh Parivar group,the family of Hindu nationalist organisations led by the RSS.
Subash Chouhan was the national President of the Bajrang Dal,a Hindutva organization in India that is the youth wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).
Gopal Bhargava is an Indian politician and a senior cabinet minister in the Government of Madhya Pradesh. He was sworn in as a cabinet minister on July 2,2020,for his sixth term,which is the highest number of terms any minister can complete in the government. He has also been the leader of opposition in the 15th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He is the only person who has served as a cabinet minister for 15 consecutive years in the Government of Madhya Pradesh,India. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party,and has been the member of the Legislative Assembly eight times consecutively,representing Rehli since 1985.
Dr. Narottam Mishra is the incumbent Minister for Home Affairs,Law and Legislative Affairs,Prisons,and Parliamentary Affairs in Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Paras Chandra Jain is a former Cabinet Minister of Energy and New &Renewable Energy in Government. He represents Ujjain North constituency in Madhya Pradesh Assembly,He is a Member of the Legislative Assembly from same constituency since 1990 to 1998 &2003 to present.
The Ram Rath Yatra was a political and religious rally that lasted from September to October 1990. It was organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its Hindu nationalist affiliates,and led by the then-president of the BJP,L. K. Advani. The purpose of the yatra was to support the agitation,led by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and its affiliates in the Sangh Parivar,to erect a temple to the Hindu deity Rama on the site of the Babri Masjid.
Archana Chitnis is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Madhya Pradesh. She was a member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly representing Burhanpur and has served as education minister of the state. She returned to Shivraj Singh Chouhan's Cabinet as Minister of Women and Child Development. She lost the 2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election against Thakur Surendra Singh from Burhanpur.
The Ratlam Lok Sabha constituency by-election of 2015 was caused by the death from brain haemorrhage and myocardial infarction of the sitting Member of Parliament,Dileep Singh Bhuria of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The by-election was won by Kantilal Bhuria of the Indian National Congress (INC) by 88,800 votes.
Om Prakash Dhurve in Rusa village,Dindori district is an Indian politician from Madhya Pradesh. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party and a member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly at Shahpura constituency from 2013 to December 2018. He lost the 2018 Madhya Pradesh Assembly election from Shahpura against the candidate of Congress.
Pradhuman Singh Tomar is an Indian politician. He is the member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He is currently Energy minister of Madhya Pradesh in Shivraj Singh Chouhan's 2020 Cabinet. He was a Member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Gwalior in Gwalior from December 2018 to March 2020. And he also served as Member of legislative assembly in 2008 from Gwalior. Shri Tomar comes from Scindia Circle and known as Scindia samarthak.
O. P. S. Bhadoria is an Indian politician. He is a current MLA of Mehgaon constituency in Madhya Pradesh and a leader of the Scindia squad,currently serving as a Minister of State in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan led government.
