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 Hindutva 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.
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.
The Liberhan Commission was a long-running inquiry commissioned by the Government of India to investigate the destruction of the disputed structure Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992. Led by retired High Court Judge M. S. Liberhan,it was formed on 16 December 1992 by an order of the Indian Home Union Ministry after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on 6 December and the subsequent riots there. The commission was originally mandated to submit its report within three months. Extensions were given 48 times,and after a delay of 17 years,the one-man commission submitted the report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 30 June 2009. In November 2009,a day after a newspaper published the allegedly leaked contents of the report,the report was tabled in Parliament by the Home Minister P. Chidambaram.
Surendra Kumar Jain is the international Joint General Secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). He has retired from Principal,Hindu College Rohtak (Haryana) in India in 2013. He was the third president of the Bajrang Dal after Vinay Katiyar and Jaibhan Singh Pawaiya. He was succeeded as president of Bajrang Dal by Prakash Sharma on 12 June 2002. He graduated from the Shri Ram College of commerce in New Delhi and obtained a post graduate degree from the Delhi School of Economics.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan is an Indian politician who is serving as the 32nd Minister of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare and 23rd Minister of Rural Development since 11 June 2024. He was the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh from 2020 to 2023 and previously from 2005 to 2018 and a Member of Legislative Assembly in Madhya Pradesh from Budhni since 2006 to 2024 and previously from 1990 to 1991. Chouhan is the longest serving Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
Kamal Patel is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He has served as a minister three times in Government of Madhya Pradesh and Member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly five times in 1993,1998,2003,2008,and 2018 representing the Harda Constituency). Agriculture in the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) is an Indian right-wing Hindu organisation 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.
Gauri Shankar Shejwar is a senior political leader of Bharatiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh and was a senior Cabinet Minister in the state government from 2013-18. He was a Cabinet Minister in-charge of multiple portfolios such as Forests,Planning,Economics &Statistics in the Madhya Pradesh State Government headed by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from 2013-2018. He was also the Minister in-charge of the Narmada Seva Yatra - a unique river conservation and development programme led by Shivraj Singh Chouhan. In the past,he has been cabinet minister in different BJP governments that have governed Madhya Pradesh. He has held important portfolios such as Forests,Home Affairs,Power &Energy,Health,and Education during his different tenures as Cabinet Minister.
Narendra Singh Tomar is an Indian politician and a member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He is the former Minister of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare. He has been Minister of Rural Development,Minister of Panchayati Raj,Minister of Mines and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in the Government of India during different periods of the First and Second Modi ministry. He is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was also a member of Fifteenth Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014 from Morena;Sixteenth Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2019 from Gwalior and 17th Lok Sabha from 2019 to 2023 from Morena. In 2019,he changed his constituency and was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from Morena.
Dr. Narottam Mishra is the former 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.
Kailash Vijayvargiya is an Indian politician serving as Cabinet Minister Madhya Pradesh of Bharatiya Janata Party. He started his political career in the Indore Bharatiya Janata Party,and was the mayor of Indore,a six-time legislator and a state government cabinet minister for over 12 years before being elevated to the party's central leadership.
Archana Chitnis is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Madhya Pradesh. She is a member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly representing Burhanpur and has served as Minister of Education of the state. She returned to Shivraj Singh Chouhan's Cabinet as Minister of Women and Child Development. She won the 2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election against Thakur Surendra Singh from Burhanpur.
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 election against the candidate of Indian National Congress.
Tulsi Ram Silawat is an Indian politician serving as a cabinet minister in the Madhya Pradesh state government and a two-time representative of the Sanwer constituency in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He took the oath as a cabinet minister in the new Madhya Pradesh government on 25 December,2018. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 21 March,2020,and took oath as the Water Resources Minister under Shivraj Singh Chouhan's cabinet on 21 April,2020. On 20 October,2020,he resigned from the post of Water Resources Minister. Because,as per Article 164 (4) of the Indian Constitution,a minister who is not a member of the House must be elected to an assembly within 6 months of being appointed minister.
Pradhuman Singh Tomar is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is currently the Energy minister of Madhya Pradesh in Shivraj Singh Chouhan's 2020 Cabinet. He was a Member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Gwalior in Gwalior from December 2018 to March 2020. And he also served as a Member of legislative assembly in 2008 from Gwalior. Shri Tomar comes from Scindia Circle and is known as Scindia samarthak.
Chaudhary Mukesh Singh Chaturvedi is an Indian politician belonging to the Bhartiya Janta Party predominantly working in Madhya Pradesh. He is currently serving as the state vice president for Bharatiya Janata Party,Madhya Pradesh since January 2021 and is in-charge of Sagar Division,comprising six districts. Chaudhary,a prominent figure in the Chambal division,represented Mehgaon Constituency in the 14th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly and prior to that,he had served as the Chairman of Bhind Nagar Palika Parishad between the years 1999–2004.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),one of the major political parties in India,announced that Narendra Modi,the then chief minister of Gujarat state,would be their prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Indian general election. The announcement was made by the then BJP president Rajnath Singh on 12 September 2013.
