Related Research Articles
The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses:the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha. The president in his role as head of the legislature has full powers to summon and prorogue either house of Parliament or to dissolve the Lok Sabha. The president can exercise these powers only upon the advice of the prime minister and his Union Council of Ministers.
Ram Boolchand Jethmalani was an Indian lawyer and politician. He served as India's Union minister of law and justice,as chairman of the Indian Bar Council,and as the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association. He was noted in the Indian legal fraternity for his forte in criminal law and high-profile civil cases.
Manohar Gaju Joshi is a prominent politician from the state of Maharashtra. He was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1995 to 1999 and Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2002 to 2004. He is one of the prominent leaders of the Shiv Sena. He is also second Indian to be elected to all of the four legislatures.
Kapil Sibal is an Indian lawyer and politician. Sibal has represented several high-profile cases in the Supreme Court of India and is widely regarded as one of the famous lawyers of India. He is a Member of Parliament,in Rajya Sabha.
Selja Kumari is an Indian politician and former parliamentarian. A member of the Indian National Congress,she has been the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment and Tourism in the Government of India during Manmohan Singh's premiership.
Bhagat Singh Koshyari is an Indian politician serving as the 22nd and current Governor of Maharashtra from 5 September 2019. An RSS veteran,Koshyari served as National Vice-President of BJP and party's 1st 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.
Shantaram Laxman Naik was an Indian politician from Indian National Congress party and a former Member of the Parliament of India representing Goa in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He was the President of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee and the whip of the Indian National Congress in the Rajya Sabha.
Abhishek Manu Singhvi is an Indian lawyer and politician. As politician,he is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) and a current Member of the Parliament of India representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha,the Upper House of the Indian Parliament. He is also a spokesperson for the INC. He is one of the senior advocates of the Supreme Court of India.
E. M. Sudarsana Natchiappan is a politician from Indian National Congress party and a Member of Parliament representing Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha.
Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),and a senior Member of Parliament in his 32nd year as a Parliamentarian.
Balavant Apte,also called Bal Apte and Balasaheb Apte was a lawyer,politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He was a MA LLM. He died on 17 July 2012 at Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai.
Sanjay Rajaram Raut is an Indian politician from Shiv Sena party. He is a member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is the Executive Editor of Marathi newspaper Saamana,published by Uddhav Thackeray,the Shiv Sena party leader.
Tarun Vijay is an Indian author,social worker and journalist. He was the editor of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) weekly in Hindi,Panchajanya,from 1986 to February 2008. He also writes for the Daily Pioneer.
Ranganath Mishra was the 21st Chief Justice of India,serving from 25 September 1990 to 24 November 1991. He was also the first chairman of the National Human Rights Commission of India. He also served as Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from the Congress Party between 1998 and 2004. He is the second Supreme court judge to become a Rajya Sabha member after Baharul Islam who was also elected as Indian National Congress member.
Husain Dalwai,is a politician from Indian National Congress party.
Shahid Azmi was an Indian lawyer,best known for defending cases of persons accused of terrorism. Azmi was accused of crime at a young age;in 1992,aged 15,he was arrested for violence during the 1992 Bombay riots. Let off lightly as a juvenile,and due to lack of any proper evidence against him. As a young adult,he was again arrested,this time under Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act,for plotting against the state. He spent seven years in Delhi's Tihar Jail. In jail,he was encouraged to resume his education,and by the time he was released,he had taken a degree in law. In 2003,he began practising as a criminal defense lawyer in Mumbai. The cases handled by him were almost exclusively of defending cases for those accused of terrorism,who he believed had been jailed as scapegoats. He was shot dead by four assailants in his office in Kurla,Mumbai on 11 February 2010 at the age of 32.
Adhik Shirodkar was an Indian lawyer and politician. A prominent criminal lawyer from Mumbai,Shirodkar represented the Shiv Sena party in the Srikrishna Commission. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha. Shirodkar died on 19 April 2014.
Appasamy Navaneethakrishnan is an Indian politician and lawyer. He is a Member of Parliament,representing Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament.He is the leader of the AIADMK party in the Rajya Sabha. He was the earlier the Advocate General of Tamil Nadu.He was the defence lawyer for Jayalalithaa in various corruption cases.
The Transgender Persons Act,2019 is an act of the Parliament of India with the objective to provide for protection of rights of transgender people,their welfare,and other related matters. The act was introduced in the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament,on 19 July 2019 by the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment,Thawar Chand Gehlot,in light of the lapse of the Transgender Persons Bill,2018. The 2019 act and the immediately preceding 2018 bill,were both preceded by a 2016 version. They were met with protests and criticism by some transgender people,lawyers,and activists in India. The 2016 bill was sent to a standing committee which submitted its report in July 2017. Following this,the Lok Sabha tabled and passed a newer version of the bill in December 2018. However,it did not incorporate many of the committee's recommendations. Although members of the opposition criticised the 2019 act and assured activists that they would not vote in favour of it,it was passed by the Lok Sabha on 5 August 2019 and by the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Parliament,on 26 November 2019. The president assented to it on 5 December 2019,upon which the act was published in the Gazette of India. It has been in effect since 10 January 2020 following a notification of the same in the Gazette on the same day.
Mahesh Jethmalani is an Indian lawyer and a politician. He is currently a nominated Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He was also a member of the National Executive of the Bharatiya Janata Party up to 2012.
References
- ↑ "Bio-Profile of Member of Parliament". NIC. 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ↑ "news". Mid-day. 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ↑ "news". TOI. 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ↑ "rich stories new nawabs". TOI. 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ↑ "news". TribuneIndia. 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- ↑ "news". TOI. 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
 | This article about a Nationalist Congress Party politician from Maharashtra is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |