Sushilkumar Sambhaji Shinde is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He was the Minister of Home Affairs,Minister of Power in the Manmohan Singh government,and the Leader of the House in Lok Sabha until 26 May 2014. He previously served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 18 January 2003 to 4 November 2004.
The Indian Youth Congress is the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party. The Indian Youth Congress was a department of the Indian National Congress from the period just after the Partition of India in 1947 until the late 1960s. While prime minister,Indira Gandhi gave the Youth Congress a new dimension by establishing it as a frontal organisation of the Congress Party,with the objective of doing social work and arguing against right-wing parties. Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi was the first elected president of the Indian Youth Congress;Chandy Oommen was the National outreach Chairman he later became Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Parliamentary affairs in the Indian cabinet. Narayan Dutt Tiwari was the first President. Jitin Prasada was also the president of the Indian youth congress.
Jairam Ramesh is an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He is a Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state in the Rajya Sabha. In July 2011,Jairam was elevated to the Union Council of Ministers of India and appointed Minister of Rural Development and Minister of the new Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. However,in the cabinet reshuffle in October 2012,he was divested of the portfolio of Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. He was previously the Indian Minister of State at the Ministry of Environment and Forests from May 2009 to July 2011.
Kollur Mallappa,also referred to as Malappa Lingappa Kollur was the first President of Hyderabad Pradesh Congress Committee,prior to the merger of Hyderabad state into Andhra Pradesh. He was a Member of Parliament from Raichur,now in Karnataka for several terms. He was a mentor of the late Indian Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao,several leaders like Virendra Patil,Shivraj Patil,S.B. Chavan and G. Venkataswamy,etc. He founded the Kuruba Sangham and the Kuruba hostel in Hyderabad.
Although India is a parliamentary democracy,the country's politics has become dynastic or with high level of nepotism,possibly due to the absence of party organizations,independent civil-society associations which mobilize support for a party,or centralized financing of elections. The dynastic phenomenon is present at the national,state,regional,and district level. The Nehru–Gandhi family has produced three Indian prime ministers,and family members have largely led the Congress party since 1978. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also has several dynastic leaders. In addition to the major national parties,other national and regional parties such as Shiromani Akali Dal,Shiv Sena,Samajwadi Party,Rashtriya Janata Dal,Janata Dal Secular,Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,Kerala Congress,Jammu &Kashmir National Conference,Indian Union Muslim League,AIMIM,and the Nationalist Congress Party are all dominated by families,mostly those of the party founders.
The Gokarnanatheshwara Temple,otherwise known as Kudroli Sri Gokarnanatha Kshetra,is in the Kudroli area of Mangalore in Karnataka,India. It was consecrated by Narayana Guru. It is dedicated to Gokarnanatha,a form of Lord Shiva. This temple was built in 1912 by Adhyaksha HoigeBazar Koragappa.
Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy was an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. A member of the Indian National Congress,he represented the Visakhapatnam constituency in the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian legislature. From 1990 to 1992,he served as 12th chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. His wife,Nedurumalli Rajyalakshmi,was a minister in the Government of Andhra Pradesh between 2004 and 2014.
Mohsina Kidwai is an Indian politician and former union minister and parliamentarian from the Indian National Congress party belonging from the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh. She served as an union minister under Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi holding several important portfolios.
Veerendra Basappa Patil was a senior Indian politician and was twice,the Chief Minister of Karnataka. He became Chief Minister for the first time from 1968–1971 and the second time was almost 18 years later,from 1989–1990.
Dr. Oscar Fernandes was an Indian politician,a senior Indian National Congress leader and was the Union Cabinet Minister for Transport,Road and Highways and Labour and Employment,Government of India in UPA government. He was one of the closest confidants of the former Congress President Rahul Gandhi and one of the major leaders involved in the decision making process related to Congress Party. He was closely associated with the late Mogaveera community leader Mr.Ananda Mendon and both together worked for the social upliftment of rural areas of coastal Karnataka.
Margaret Nazareth Alva is an Indian politician. She served as the 17th Governor of Goa,23rd Governor of Gujarat,19th Governor of Rajasthan and 4th Governor of Uttarakhand at various times between 2009 and 2014. She has formerly served as the Cabinet Minister. She took over in Rajasthan from the Punjab governor,Shivraj Patil,who had been holding an additional charge of that state. Before being appointed governor,she was a senior figure in the Indian National Congress and was Joint Secretary of the All India Congress Committee. Her mother-in-law,Violet Alva,was Second Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha in 1960s.
Venur Dhananjay Kumar Alva was a former Union and Cabinet minister of India and a former Member of Parliament from Mangalore. He was cabinet minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism in 1996,Union Minister of State for Finance from 1999 to 2000 and Union Minister of State for Textiles from 2000 to 2003. He was also one of the first few BJP MPs to be elected from south India,at a time when the Congress party's reach was at its peak.
Gali Janardhana Reddy is an Indian politician and businessman who is the Founder and President of Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha. He has been serving as a Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from the Gangawati Assembly constituency since 13 May 2023 being associated with the Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha.
Chandra Shekhar was an Indian politician who served as the 8th Prime Minister of India,between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal with outside support from the Indian National Congress. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who had never held any prior government office.
Sanjaya Sinh,also known as Sanjay Singh,is an Indian politician and a former member of the Rajya Sabha. He was twice elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh during the 1980s and held state ministerial posts. In 1990,he became a member of the upper house of the Parliament of India,which is known as the Rajya Sabha,and in 1998 he was elected to the lower house,called the Lok Sabha. His term in the 12th Lok Sabha session lasted until the following year. Subsequently,in 2009,he was successful in obtaining a second term in that house as a member of the 15th Lok Sabha representing the Sultanpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh. He represented the state of Assam in the Rajya Sabha. He resigned from Rajya Sabha and Indian National Congress to join Bharatiya Janata Party on 30 July 2019.
Renuka Chowdhury is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress,she represented the political party in the Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh. She has also served as the Union minister of State for Ministry of Women and Child Development and Tourism in the Government of India.
Mahendra Singh Mahra is an Indian politician and agriculturist who served as a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from Uttarakhand,served as Minister Agriculture,Agricultural Marketing &Watershed Management,Government of Uttarakhand and served as a four time MLA.
South Kanara (South) Lok Sabha constituency was a former Lok Sabha constituency in Madras State. This seat came into existence in 1951. With the implementation of States Reorganisation Act,1956,it ceased to exist.
Krishnapal Singh was an Indian activist,politician and a former Governor of Gujarat from Shahdol in Baghelkhand. His career began in the 1940s and ended in the 1990s.
Neeraj Dangi is an Indian politician from Rajasthan. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha,upper house of the Parliament of India from Rajasthan in the June 2020 Rajya sabha elections as an Indian National Congress candidate.
