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. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. 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.
This is a partial listing of prominent political families of Rajasthan.
Suraj Bhan was a former Governor,Member of Parliament and an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party.
Sunder Lal Patwa was an Indian politician,who served as the 11th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and a cabinet minister in the Government of India. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the only politician who defeated congress strong man Kamal Nath in 1997 from Chhindwara constituency for member of parliament. He was born in the village of Kukreshwar located between Manasa and Rampura in the Neemuch District of Madhya Pradesh.
Colonel Manvendra Singh Jasol is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Indian National Congress. He joined Congress on 17 October 2018. He was the member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India from 2004-2009 representing the Barmer-Jaisalmer constituency of Rajasthan and was considered an upcoming leader for BJP.
Gulab Chand Kataria is an Indian politician who is serving as the 29th Governor of Assam since 2023. He was a minister in the Government of Rajasthan from 2013 till 2018,2003 to 2008 and from 1993 to 1998. 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 from Udaipur from 1989 to 1991. He was booked by the C.B.I. in the Sheikh fake encounter killing. He was also the Leader of Opposition in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 2019 till 2023,2013 to 2013 and from 2002 to 2003. He was the President of Bharatiya Janata Party,Rajasthan state unit from 1999 to 2000.He was also the member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Udaipur from 2003 to 2023 and from 1977 to 1986 and from Bari Sadri from 1993 to 2003.
Politics of Rajasthan is mainly dominated by two parties,the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress. The current government in Rajasthan is that of the Indian National Congress and Ashok Gehlot is the Chief Minister.
Pushpendra Singh is an Indian politician who was a Minister in the BJP led Rajasthan Government. He is a member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly elected from Bali in Pali district in Rajasthan state. He has won all of the assembly elections in this district since 2003,winning his fourth term in 2018. He has been elected on the ticket of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Ganganagar,also called Sri Ganganagar,Vidhan Sabha seat is one of the constituencies of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly,in India. It is a segment of Ganganagar.
Otaram Dewasi is member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. He was elected to the assembly from Sirohi in 2008 and again in 2013 as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party. He has served as the chairman of Rajasthan Livestock Board and has served as the first cow minister of India.
Krishan Pal Gurjar is an Indian politician and is the present Minister of State of Power and Heavy Industries. As a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha,he represents the Faridabad constituency in the state of Haryana. He won this seat in the 2014 Indian general election as a BJP candidate by a margin of 4,66,873 votes and he won election with margin of over 6 lakh in 2019 from Faridabad constituency.
Bharatiya Janata Party,Rajasthan is a state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Rajasthan. Chandra Prakash Joshi is the current president of the BJP Rajasthan. Vasundhara Raje was the previous Chief Minister of Rajasthan during 2013–2018,previously she served in the same post from 2003 to 2008. She was the first female Chief Minister of Rajasthan. And the former president of the BJP Rajasthan.
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat became Chief Minister of Rajasthan,India for second time in 1990 as leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal alliance. In 1990 election to Rajasthan Legislative Assembly out of total 200 seats Bharatiya Janata Party won 85 and Janata Dal won 50 seats. Shekhawat was sworn in as chief minister on 4 March 1990. Here are the names of the ministers:
Pratap Singh Khachariyawas is an Indian National Congress politician,who is presently the Cabinet Minister in the Government of Rajasthan. He is also one of the Cabinet Ministers in the government,which is headed by Ashok Gehlot. Pratap Singh has held the post of the spokesperson of Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee and president of Jaipur Congress since 2015,previously he served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Civil Lines Vidhan Sabha from 2008 to 2013.
Amber is one of the 200 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Rajasthan state in India. It is in Jaipur district and is one of the eight assembly segments of Jaipur Rural.
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.
Dholpur is one of the 200 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Rajasthan state in India. It is in Dholpur district and is a segment of the Karauli-Dholpur.
Chhabra is one of the 200 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Rajasthan state in India. It is in Baran district and is a segment of Jhalawar–Baran.
Kishna Ram Nai is an Indian politician,elected member from the Dungargarh constituency of Rajasthan three times.
