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.
Purno Agitok Sangma was an Indian politician who has served as the 4th Chief Minister of Meghalaya from 1988 to 1990 and the 11th Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998. He also served as a member of the Lok Sabha from Tura from 2014 to 2016,1991 to 2008 and from 1977 to 1989 and the minister of 21st Information and Broadcasting in the Rao ministry from 1995 to 1996,founder of NPP and Co- founder of NCP. He was the candidate for the 2012 Indian presidential election,supported by BJP and AIADMK,however he lost to Congress politician Shri Pranab Mukherjee. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan,India's second highest civilian award,posthumously in 2017 in the field of Public Affairs and was the first recipient of Padma Vibhushan from Meghalaya.
Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu is an Indian politician who served as the 13th vice president of India from 2017 to 2022. He is the first Indian vice president born in independent India. He has also served as the minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation,Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi Cabinet.
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.
Manohar Gajanan Joshi was an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra,who served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1995 to 1999,and Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2002 to 2004. He was one of the prominent leaders of the Shiv Sena,and also one of the Indians to be elected to all of the four legislatures.
Sunder Lal Patwa was an Indian politician,who served as the 11th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and a cabinet minister in the Government of India. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the only politician who defeated congress strong man Kamal Nath in 1997 from Chhindwara constituency for member of parliament. He was born in the village of Kukreshwar located between Manasa and Rampura in the Neemuch District of Madhya Pradesh.
Kalyan Singh was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He served twice as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and as a Member of Parliament. He was the Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh during the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992. He is considered an icon of Hindu nationalism,and of the agitation to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh is an Indian politician from the Allahabad Lok Sabha Constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He played a major role in the establishment of the Samajwadi Party with SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav,Beni Prasad Verma and Azam Khan.
Shyama Charan Gupta was an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party,entrepreneur,and Member of Parliament representing Allahabad in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. He was the founder of Shyama Group of companies,established in 1973.
General elections were held in India on 22 and 26 November 1989 to elect the members of the ninth Lok Sabha. The incumbent Indian National Congress (Indira) government under the premiership of Rajiv Gandhi lost its mandate,even though it was still the largest single party in the Lok Sabha. V. P. Singh,the leader of the second largest party Janata Dal was invited by the President of India to form the government. The government was formed with outside support from the Bharatiya Janata Party and Communist parties led by CPI(M). V. P. Singh was sworn in as the seventh Prime Minister of India on 2 December 1989.
Harish Singh Rawat is an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2014 to 2017. A five-time Member of Parliament,Rawat is a senior leader of the Indian National Congress party. As a member of 15th Lok Sabha,Rawat served as Union Minister of Water Resources in the cabinet of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from 2012 to 2014. He also worked as Minister of State at the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs,Ministry of Agriculture,Ministry of Food Processing Industries (2011–2012) and Ministry of Labour and Employment (2009–2011).
Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna was an Indian National Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh;he later joined Bharatiya Lok Dal and worked with Charan Singh.
Lal Chowk is a city square in Srinagar,in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Ashthabhuja Prasad Shukla is an Indian politician. He represented the Khalilabad constituency in the Lok Sabha during 1991-1996. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Ekta Yatra is the name of two political yatras or rallies led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India. The first began in 1991,following the 1990 Ram Rath Yatra. The second began in 2011. Each rally travelled through various Indian states and ended with the unfurling of the flag of India in what was then the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Ajay Rai is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress since 2012. He is a five-time MLA from Uttar Pradesh. He is the current Uttar Pradesh Congress chief.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is one of the major political parties in India and is the main opposition party during the 15th Lok Sabha. It contested the 2014 parliamentary election along with their supportive parties,to form National Democratic Alliance with Narendra Modi as its Prime Ministerial candidate and party president Rajnath Singh as the chief-of-election of campaign. The important issues during the campaign included price hikes,corruption,the economy,national security,basic infrastructure such as roads and railways,and supplying basic needs such as electricity and water. The party promised a vibrant and participatory democracy,inclusive and sustainable development,quality of life,productive youth,a globally competitive economy,open and transparent government,and pro-active and pro-people governance in its manifesto.
The Estimates Committee (India) is a committee of selected members of parliament,constituted by the Parliament of India (the Lok Sabha),for the purpose of scrutinising the functioning of government ministries and departments in terms of expenditure and utilisation of funds. It also suggests alternative policies in order to bring about efficiency and economy in administration. It also examines whether the finances are laid out within the limits of the policy implied in the estimates and also to suggest the form in which the estimates shall be presented to Parliament. This committee along with the Public Accounts committee(PAC) and Committee on Public Undertakings (COPU) are the three financial standing committees of the Parliament of India.
Sunil Deodhar is an Indian Politician. He was the National Secretary of the Bhartiya Janata Party. Currently,he is Co-incharge of BJP Andhra Pradesh. He is a former RSS Pracharak,and son of Marathi journalist V N Deodhar. He was campaign manager for Narendra Modi in Varanasi constituency in 2014. He founded an NGO My Home India of North-East India.
