Murli Manohar Joshi is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of which he was the President between 1991 and 1993. Joshi is the former Member of Parliament from Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency. He is a former professor of physics in University of Allahabad. He is one of the senior most leaders of the BJP and one of the founding members. Joshi later became the Union Human Resources &Development Minister in the National Democratic Alliance government. Joshi was awarded Padma Vibhushan,the second-highest civilian award,in 2017 by the Government of India. Joshi has been a member of RSS since his college days.
Meira Kumar is an Indian politician and former diplomat. A member of the Indian National Congress,she was the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment from 2004 to 2009,the Minister of Water Resources for a brief period in 2009. She served as the 15th Speaker of Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014,being the first woman to hold the post. Kumar became just the second woman to be nominated for president of India by a major political block when she secured the United Progressive Alliance's nomination in 2017.
South Delhi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in the Indian National Capital Territory of Delhi. This constituency came into existence in 1966.
Kannoth Muraleedharan is an Indian National Congress (INC) politician from Kerala,the son of eminent congress leader K. Karunakaran. He was elected as member of the Lok Sabha thrice from the Kozhikode constituency,subsequently leaving the party in 2005. For a while he had joined NCP of Sharad Pawar. Then he rejoined Congress. He was elected as the Chairman of KPCC Campaign committee in September 2018. He entered 17th Lok Sabha by winning from the Vatakara in 2019 general elections.
General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters,they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 elections. Around 23.1 million or 2.7% of the total eligible voters were aged 18–19 years. A total of 8,251 candidates contested the 543 elected Lok Sabha seats. The average election turnout over all nine phases was around 66.40%,the highest ever in the history of Indian general elections.
Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India. It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee.
Amethi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. It covers the entirety of the Amethi district and was created in 1967. The seat is considered to be one of the bastions of the Indian National Congress (INC). Rahul Gandhi held the seat for the longest period,from 2004 to 2019,but lost to Smriti Irani,resulting in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seizing the prestigious seat from the scion of Congress. The seat has also been held by his mother,father and uncle.
Baidyanath Prasad Mahto was an Indian Politician and a Member of Indian Parliament to the 15th and 17th Lok Sabha. He won the 2009 and 2019 Indian general election from Valmiki Nagar constituency being a Janata Dal (United) candidate. He was earlier elected three times to the Bihar Legislative Assembly from Nautan. He was also Minister of Rural Development Department From 2005 to 2008 in Bihar Government.
Rameshwar Prasad is an Indian politician,belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. He is a Central Committee member of CPI (ML) Liberation and the president of All India Agricultural Labourers Association (AIALA).
Sikkim Krantikari Morcha is a political party in the Indian state of Sikkim which is the ruling party of Sikkim since 2019.
Chhedi Paswan is a former member of 16th Lok Sabha and a former member of Bihar Legislative Assembly. He represents the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2014. At various points,he has been with Janata Party,then its Charan Singh faction,then the reunited Janata Dal,Bahujan Samaj Party,Nationalist Congress Party,Lalu Prasad Yadav's RJD and Nitish Kumar's JD(U).
Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma is an Indian politician and a Member of parliament (MP) from West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency. As a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),he is serving his second term as an MP for West Delhi. In 2014 he was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha,and re-elected in 2019 for the 17th Lok Sabha with the highest ever margin of victory in the history of Delhi,a margin of 578,486 votes.
K. Gopal is an Indian doctor and politician. He obtained a M.B.B.S degree from Thanjavur Medical College. Gopal was a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Nannilam 1991 to 1996. In 2014 he was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Nagapattinam as an Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in the 2014 election. He won the seat with 46.06% and was elected Member of Parliament for Nagapattinam for 16th Lok Sabha.
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.
The 17th Lok Sabha was formed by the members elected in the 2019 Indian general election. Elections,all across India,were conducted in seven phases from 11 April 2019 to 19 May 2019 by the Election Commission of India. Counting started officially on the morning of 23 May 2019 and the results were declared on the same day.
Kanumuru Raghu Rama Krishna Raju is an Indian industrialist and politician who is serving as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 17th Lok Sabha from Narasapuram constituency,Andhra Pradesh. He won the 2019 Indian general election as a Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party(YSRCP) candidate.
P. Ravindhranath Kumar is an Indian politician,popularly Known as O.P.R.. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from Theni Lok Sabha constituency,Tamil Nadu in the 2019 Indian general election as member of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. He is the son of O. Panneerselvam.
Bandi Sanjay Kumar is an Indian politician who is a Member of the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India,representing the Karimnagar constituency since 2019. he is the former state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Telangana from 11 March 2020 to 4 July 2023. He is a board member of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences,Bibinagar,Hyderabad,Telangana. He was named as National General Secretary on 29 July 2023 by the BJP National President.
