Lal Krishna Advani is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. He is one of the co-founders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a right-wing Hindu nationalist volunteer organization. He is the longest serving Minister of Home Affairs serving from 1998 to 2004. He is also the longest serving Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. He was the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP during the 2009 general election.
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the 4th Prime Minister of India between 1977 and 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party. During his long career in politics,he held many important posts in government such as Chief Minister of Bombay State,Home Minister,Finance Minister and 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of India.
Events in the year 2002 in the Republic of India.
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.
Amarsinh Bhilabhai Chaudhary was an Indian politician. He became the first adivasi to serve as the Chief Minister of Gujarat when he took office in 1985.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was an Indian politician who served as the sixth president of India,serving from 1977 to 1982. Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress Party in the independence movement,he went on to hold several key offices in independent India —as Deputy Chief minister of Andhra state and the first chief minister of Andhra Pradesh,a two-time Speaker of the Lok Sabha and a Union Minister—before becoming the Indian president.
Krishan Kant was an Indian politician who served as the tenth vice president of India from 1997 until his death in 2002. Prior to his vice presidency,Kant was the governor of Andhra Pradesh from 1990 to 1997. He was a member of both houses of the Indian Parliament,representing Chandigarh in the Lok Sabha from 1977 to 1980,and Haryana in the Rajya Sabha from 1966 to 1977.
Bandaru Dattatreya is an Indian politician serving as the current governor of the State of Haryana since 2021. He was also the 20th governor of Himachal Pradesh and was the member of Lok Sabha for Secunderabad from 2014 to 2019. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Vyricherla Kishore Chandra Suryanarayana Deo is an Indian politician and a member of the Telugu Desam Party political party. He has been elected to the Lok Sabha for five times and has also held one term in the Rajya Sabha. From July 2011 to May 2014,he was the Union Cabinet Minister for Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj.
Punjala Shiv Shankar was an Indian politician. He served as the Minister of External Affairs,Law,and Petroleum. He was a very influential minister in Indira Gandhi's and Rajiv Gandhi's cabinets and was one of the most senior politicians in India. He also served as Governor of Sikkim from 1994 to 1995 and Governor of Kerala from 1995 to 1996.
General elections were held in India between 16 and 20 March 1977 to elect the members of the sixth Lok Sabha. The elections took place during the Emergency period,which expired on 21 March 1977,shortly before the final results were announced.
Kotha Raghuramaiah was a veteran Indian politician and barrister who served as the Union Cabinet minister of Defence,Civil Aviation,Petroleum &Chemicals,Tourism and Parliamentary Affairs. He is one of the longest-serving cabinet minister in the History of India. The Members of Parliament from the Lok sabha and Rajya Sabha participate in a friendly Cricket competition annually for the honor of lifting the Raghuramaiah Trophy named after him.
Mohan Dharia was a Union minister,a lawyer and social worker. During his last days he stayed in Pune. Dharia was an environmentalist and ran a non-government organisation Vanarai. He was elected to the Lok Sabha twice from Pune Lok Sabha constituency,first in 1971 as an Indian National Congress (INC) member and became a Minister of State,and later in 1977 as a Bharatiya Lok Dal member,and joined the Morarji Desai Ministry as Union Minister of Commerce. Prior to it,he remained member of the Rajya Sabha twice from INC,first 1964-1970 and then 1970- 1971
Maniben Patel was an Indian independence movement activist and a Member of the Indian parliament. She was the daughter of freedom fighter and post-Independence Indian leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Educated in Bombay,Patel adopted the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi in 1918,and started working regularly at his ashram in Ahmedabad.
Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare (1916-1988) was an Indian politician,jurist and Ambedkarite activist. He was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party,who was twice elected to Lok Sabha. He was elected to the fourth Lok Sabha from the Mumbai Central constituency of Maharashtra in 1967. He was re-elected in 1971 but resigned in 1973 when he was appointed Governor of Bihar. He was a colleague and follower of human rights leader B. R. Ambedkar.
Kirit Premjibhai Solanki is an Indian Politician and medical practitioner who has been elected Member of Parliament of India for three consecutive terms. He represents the Ahmedabad West constituency of Gujarat and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party. Currently,he has been appointed as the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. He is also part of the panel of chairpersons who preside over the House in the absence of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker. He is one of the most active members in the parliament and had nearly 100% attendance in the 15th and 16th Lok Sabha. He has been awarded the Shreshth Sansad Award consecutively twice in 2018 and 2019 for his active work in the parliament and constituency.
Kambhampati Hari Babu is an Indian politician and the current Governor of Mizoram,being the first person from divided Andhra Pradesh and first Telugu person serving as Governor of Mizoram in North East India. He was a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Visakhapatnam,Andhra Pradesh. He won the 2014 Indian general election being a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. He is former state unit President of Bharatiya Janata Party for Andhra Pradesh.
Parimal Dhirajlal Nathwani is an Indian politician and industrialist. He is a M.P,Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh since the 2020 Rajya Sabha elections,previously serving as a Rajya Sabha MP for Jharkhand from 2008-2020.
Vellamvelly Muraleedharan is an Indian politician from Kerala and current Union Minister of State for External Affairs &Parliamentary Affairs of India since 30 May 2019. He was the eighth State President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala. He is also a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament representing the state of Maharashtra.He was sworn in as a Union Minister on 30 May 2019. On 12 June 2019,Muraleedharan was appointed Government Deputy Chief Whip in the Rajya Sabha.
Nand Kishore Bhatt (1919-2013) was an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament representing Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament as member of the Indian National Congress. In his tribute read out in Rajya Sabha by the then vice president,Dr. Hamid Ansari,he was described as a distinguished parliamentarian,a veteran freedom fighter and a distinguished trade unionist.
