Rahul Rajiv Gandhi is an Indian politician. A member of the Indian National Congress (INC),he is currently serving as the 12th Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and as the member of the Lok Sabha for Rae Bareli,Uttar Pradesh,since June 2024. He previously represented the constituency of Wayanad,Kerala,from 2019 to 2024,and Amethi,Uttar Pradesh,from 2004 to 2019. Gandhi served as the party president of the Indian National Congress from December 2017 to July 2019 and is the chairperson of the Indian Youth Congress,the National Students Union of India,and a trustee of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust. He is a member of the Nehru–Gandhi political family.
Uma Bharti is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. She became involved with the Bharatiya Janata Party at a young age,unsuccessfully contesting her first parliamentary elections in 1984. In 1989,she successfully contested the Khajuraho seat,and retained it in elections conducted in 1991,1996 and 1998. In 1999,she switched constituencies and won the Bhopal seat.
The 14th Lok Sabha was convened after the 2004 Indian general election held in four phases during 20 April –10 May 2004,which led to the formation of first Manmohan Singh ministry (2004–2009). Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance won 62 more seats than previous 13th Lok Sabha. The Lok Sabha is the lower house in the Parliament of India. 8 sitting members from Rajya Sabha,the Upper House of Indian Parliament,were elected to 14th Lok Sabha after the 2004 Indian general election.
Raj Babbar is an Indian Hindi and Punjabi film actor and politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He is a three-time member of the Lok Sabha and a two-time member of the Rajya Sabha. He was the state President of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee.
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).
Sushil Kumar Modi was an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party who was a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Bihar. He was a Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar as well as the Finance Minister of Bihar from 2005 to 2013 and 2017 to 2020. He was a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He was appointed the Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers for the Implementation of Goods and Service Tax in July 2011.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is an Indian politician and was the Union Minister of Minority Affairs. He had served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from 2002 to 2022 and was Deputy Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha between 2021 and 2022.
Sushma Swaraj was an Indian lawyer,politician and diplomat who served as the Minister of External Affairs of India in the first Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. She was the second person to complete a 5-year term as the Minister of External Affairs,after Jawaharlal Nehru. A senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),Swaraj was the second woman to hold the office of Minister of External Affairs,after Indira Gandhi. She was elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. At the age of 25 in 1977,she became the youngest cabinet minister of the Indian state of Haryana. She also served as Chief Minister of Delhi for a short duration in 1998 and became the first female Chief Minister of Delhi.
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.
Beni Prasad Verma was an Indian politician and a founding member of the Samajwadi Party. A prominent member of the Samajwadi Party,he later joined Indian National Congress and was elected on its ticket to Lok Sabha in 2009. In 2016 he rejoined the Samajwadi Party.
Anuradha Choudhary is a politician in Uttar Pradesh,India. She has been a minister in Uttar Pradesh,and also a member of Lok Sabha. She started her career with Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal,joined Samajwadi Party in 2012 and joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2015.
Yogi Adityanath is an Indian Hindu monk and politician,belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party who has been serving as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh since 19 March 2017. He is the longest serving chief minister of Uttar Pradesh,being in office for 7 years,and the only UP chief minister to have two consecutive terms.
Anurag Singh Thakur is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Hamirpur,Himachal Pradesh. He was former Minister of Sports,Youth Affairs and Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the Second Modi ministry. His father,Prem Kumar Dhumal was a former Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh.
Dimple Yadav is an Indian politician and the incumbent member of parliament from Mainpuri of Uttar Pradesh since June 2024. She has earlier served as member of the Lok Sabha for two terms from Kannauj and for one term from Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency.
Anupriya Singh Patel is an Indian politician,teacher and social worker from the state of Uttar Pradesh who is the President of Apna Dal (Soneylal) party since 2016 and the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry of India since 7 July 2021 till 4 June 2024. She has represented Mirzapur in the Lok Sabha since 2014. She was the Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,Government of India from 2016 to 2019. She was previously elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Rohaniya constituency of the Legislature of Uttar Pradesh in Varanasi,where she had fought campaigns in alliance with the Peace Party of India and the Bundelkhand Congress from 2012 to 2014.
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 2014 Indian general election polls in Uttar Pradesh for 80 Lok Sabha seats was held in six phases on 10,17,24,30 April and 7,12 May 2014. The total voter strength of Uttar Pradesh was 134,351,297.
Krishna Raj is an Indian politician and having affiliations with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who is the former Union Minister of State of Agriculture &Farmers Welfare,India. She was elected to Uttar Pradesh assembly in 1996 &2007 from Mohammadi seat. She contested 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Shahjahanpur seat of Uttar Pradesh as BJP / NDA candidate and elected to 16th Lok Sabha.
Arun Singh is an Indian politician who holds the positions of National General Secretary and Head Quarter In-charge of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Singh is currently serving his second term as a member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha. Over the period,Singh has discharged the responsibility as BJP's State Incharge of various states,including Andhra Pradesh,Rajasthan,Karnataka,Odisha,Jharkhand and Ladakh.
The 2024 Indian general election was held in Uttar Pradesh in seven phases from 19 April to 1 June to elect 80 members of the 18th Lok Sabha,with the results declared on 4 June. Bypolls for Dadraul,Lucknow East,Gainsari,and Duddhi assembly constituencies were held alongside this election.
