Politics of India works within the framework of the country's Constitution. India is a parliamentary secular democratic republic in which the president of India is the head of state &first citizen of India and the Prime Minister of India is the head of government. It is based on the federal structure of government,although the word is not used in the Constitution itself. India follows the dual polity system,i.e. federal in nature,that consists of the central authority at the centre and states at the periphery. The Constitution defines the organizational powers and limitations of both central and state governments;it is well recognised,fluid and considered supreme,i.e. the laws of the nation must conform to it. India is officially declared a secular and socialist state as per the Constitution.
Sikander Bakht was an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who served as the 15th governor of Kerala from 2002 until his death. He was elected as the Vice President of the BJP,served as its leader in the Rajya Sabha,and as a cabinet minister in the NDA government headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. In 2000,he was awarded Padma Vibhushan,the second highest civilian honour of the Government of India.
New Friends Colony is a posh residential colony of South Delhi,India. It consists of A,B,C,D Blocks. It is situated near Uttar Pradesh border.
Mohammad Yunus Saleem was an Indian politician,scholar,and lawyer,who was also active in the religious field. He was also a poet who campaigned to make Urdu the second official language. He was also a devout Muslim,who regularly observed Namaz and never missed Roza. The Mohammad Yunus Saleem Memorial Education Trust was established by his son Junaid Abdul Rehman to promote the study of the Quran.
Afzal Ansari is an Indian politician of the Samajwadi Party and currently an incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) of India for Ghazipur constituency,Uttar Pradesh. He won the 2004 and 2019 Indian general election.
Prasanna Acharya is an Indian politician from Odisha,India. He is a former member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He is a member of the Biju Janata Dal.
The 11th Lok Sabha was constituted after April–May 1996 general elections. The result of the election was a hung parliament,which would see three Prime Ministers in two years and force the country back to the polls in 1998. Atal Bihari Vajpayee of Bharatiya Janata Party,the single largest party to win this election,winning 67 more seats than previous 10th Lok Sabha,formed the government which lasted for only 13 days.
Raashid Alvi is an Indian politician who served as a member of the Indian Parliament from both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. He is currently a member of the Indian National Congress party.
Ashwani Kumar is an Indian politician and lawyer who formerly served as Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha representing the state of Punjab. He formerly served as Union Minister of Law and Justice and Union Minister of State in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion and Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Abhishek Manu Singhvi is an Indian senior advocate and politician. As politician,he is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) and a member of the Parliament of India representing Telangana in the Rajya Sabha,the Upper House of the Indian Parliament,since August 2024. He is also a spokesperson for the INC. He is one of the senior advocates of the Supreme Court of India.
Professor Ram Deo Bhandary,a politician from the Rashtriya Janata Dal party,was a Member of the Parliament of India representing Bihar in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He was also a great leader,social worker and teacher. He is very well known in Bihar for his great works.
Shahid Siddiqui is a former member of the Rajya Sabha,the Upper House of the Indian Parliament representing the state of Uttar Pradesh from 2002 to 2008. He is a journalist and the chief editor of the Nai Duniya,an Urdu weekly published from New Delhi.
Shaktisinh Harishchandrasinhji Gohil is an Indian politician. He is a Member of Parliament and a member of the Indian National Congress. He was appointed president of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee in June 2023,in run up to 2024 general election.
Raghav Chadha is an Indian politician and a member of the Aam Aadmi Party,who is serving as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of Indian parliament. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha by the Punjab Legislative Assembly in 2022. He served as the former Vice Chairman of the Delhi Jal Board and a Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly from the Rajendra Nagar constituency from 2020 till 2022. He is also a working chartered accountant.
Gurdeep Singh Sappal is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress. He is a permanent member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC),which is the highest decision-making body of the party. He is also the administration in-charge at the All India Congress Committee (AICC),heading the party's administrative affairs.
Manoj Kumar Jha is an Indian politician who is a member of Rajya Sabha in Indian Parliament and a member of Rashtriya Janata Dal. He currently serves as the national spokesperson of the Rashtriya Janata Dal. On 15 March 2018,he was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from the state of Bihar. Jha completed his master's degree from Department of Social Work from Delhi University in 1992 and PhD in 2000. He has been a professor at the Department of Social Work University Of Delhi,and its head between 2014 and 2017.
Amar Patnaik is a former Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS) officer under the Comptroller &Auditor General (CAG) of India and former Principal Accountant General (PAG) of Sikkim,Odisha,West Bengal,and Kerala. He opted for voluntary retirement,nine years before completion of his service and joined Biju Janata Dal in the presence of party president and CM Naveen Patnaik on 29 August 2018. Since 28 June 2019,he is the member of the Parliament of India representing Odisha in the Rajya Sabha and general secretary of the BJD Parliamentary Party office,the upper house. He heads the IT-Wing and is also a spokesperson of Biju Janata Dal.
Subhash Chandra Singh is a social activist,people leader and policy maker from the State of Odisha,India. He is the first directly elected Mayor of Cuttack Municipal Corporation,acting Treasurer of Biju Janta Dal and General Secretary of Biju Sramika Samukhya. Previously he has also been member of Rajya Sabha from Odisha and has also served as National spokesperson for BJD. He was elected for Rajya Sabha on 24 March 2020. Being one of the most trusted senior leaders in BJD,he holds the position of Party Treasurer of Biju Janta Dal since 2016.
Syed Zafar Islam is an Indian Politician and former Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from the state of Uttar Pradesh. He is currently one of the national spokespersons of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Islam is a former investment banker and the former Managing director of the Indian subsidiary of Deutsche Bank. He is regarded as one of the prominent Muslim leaders of the party.
Syed Ahmad Hashmi was an Indian Muslim scholar and politician who served as the seventh general secretary of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind and the chairman of Passenger Amenities Committee. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha,upper house of the Parliament of India representing Uttar Pradesh for two terms.
