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.
Digvijaya Singh is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 2014. He is a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and Ex-General Secretary of the Indian National Congress party's All India Congress Committee. Previously,he had served as the 14th and 15th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh,a central Indian state,in two terms from 1993 to 1998 and from 1998 to 2003. Prior to that he was a minister in Chief Minister Arjun Singh's cabinet between 1980 and 1984. In 2019 Indian general election he was defeated by Pragya Singh Thakur for Bhopal Lok Sabha seat.
Sunder Singh Bhandari was an Indian politician,a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak and politician belonging to the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
K. Jana Krishnamurthi was an Indian political leader who rose to be the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2001. A former Union Law Minister and a member of the Parliament of India,Krishnamurthi was the second person from Tamil Nadu to head a national party in India after Kamaraj.
Bhai Mahavir was an Indian politician who was governor of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh between April 1998 and March 2003. He was a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and served as a leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party. He has authored many books and had served two terms prior to his governorship as a member of the Rajya Sabha. He had an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics and studied Law (LLB) from the University of Delhi.
Kalraj Mishra is an Indian politician who served as the governor of Rajasthan from 2019 to 2024. He is the former governor of Himachal Pradesh and cabinet minister of Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises in the BJP-led NDA government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Being affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),he was a member of Parliament from Deoria constituency in Uttar Pradesh from 2014 to 2019.
Kushabhau Thakre was an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of Parliament.
Bhagat Singh Koshyari is an Indian politician who served as the 22nd governor of Maharashtra from 2019 to 2023. An RSS veteran,Koshyari served as National Vice-President of BJP and party's 3rd State president for Uttarakhand. He also served as 2nd Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2001 to 2002 and thereafter,was the leader of the opposition in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2003. He also served as an MLC in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council and MLA in Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. He later served as an MP in Rajya Sabha from 2008 to 2014 from Uttarakhand and then the MP in the 16th Lok Sabha from Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar constituency,earning him the distinction of being elected in both houses of State Legislature and both houses of National Parliament respectively.
Pyarelal Khandelwal was a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak and Bharatiya Janata Party politician in India.
Anusuiya Uikey is a politician currently serving as the governor of Manipur and formerly of Chhattisgarh. She was elected to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Damua in the 1985 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Indian National Congress. She became Minister for Women and Child Development in Arjun Singh cabinet. By 1998,she had crossed over to the BJP and was its losing candidate in the 1998 Vidhan Sabha election from Damua. She became a member of Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh in 2006.
Dr Vasudevan Maitreyan is an Indian oncologist and politician from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,He was a member of the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Parliament of India for 3 terms from January 2002 to June 2004 and again from July 2007 to July 2019.
Vinay Prabhakar Sahasrabuddhe is an Indian politician. He was a Member of the Parliament of India and represented the state of Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha from 2016-22. He has also served as National Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party from August 2014 –September 2020. Dr. Sahasrabuddhe,since 2018 has been appointed as President of Indian Council for Cultural Relations. He is known as a political scholar and an occasional columnist. He is the Vice Chairman of Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini,a research and training academy for elected representatives &social activists. As Member of Parliament,he has also served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education,Women,Children and Youth &Sports. He is regarded as one of the foremost intellectuals from the BJP,the ruling party in the Central Government and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a Hindu Nationalist organization.
Meghraj Jain is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician and former RSS Pracharak. He is a Member of Parliament,representing Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of Indian Parliament. He was elected in a Rajya Sabha bye election in 2014 to replace Kaptan Singh Solanki who resigned to become the Governor of Haryana.
Member of Parliament (MP) in India refers to persons who serve in the Parliament of India. These include:
The 2016 Rajya Sabha elections were held as part of a routine six-year cycle among certain of the State Legislatures in India on March 14 and June 11,2016,to elect 13 and 57 of its 245 members,of which the states through their legislators elect 233,and the remaining 12 are appointed by the President. Being even-numbered,2016 was a year in which about 30% of the State Legislature-elected 233-seat component of the body is elected.
Jagdeep Dhankhar is an Indian politician and lawyer serving as the 14th and current vice president of India since 2022. He previously served as the Governor of West Bengal from 2019 to 2022. He also served as a Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the Chandra Shekhar ministry from 1990 to 1991,and served as a member of Lok Sabha from 1989 to 1991. Between 1993 and 1998,he was a Member of Rajasthan's Legislative Assembly. He has been affiliated with multiple political parties in India,including the Bharatiya Janata Party,Indian National Congress and Janata Dal.
2020 Rajya Sabha elections were the set of indirect elections by the members of State legislatures of India,to elect new members to fill vacancies in the Rajya Sabha –the upper house of the Parliament of India. The elections are held annually and throughout the year on an ad hoc basis. The elections in 2020 are for a total of 73 seats of which 55 of them were to be elected by March 26. The remaining were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Election Commission of India later announced all the elections for the remaining 24 Rajya Sabha seats were to be held on 19 June 2020.
Loganathan Murugan is an Indian politician and advocate currently serving as minister of state in the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs,Ministry of Fisheries,Animal Husbandry and Dairying and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. On 7 July 2021,he was made a union minister of state prior to which he was the state president of the Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
