Kamal Nath is an Indian politician who served as the 18th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh for approximately 15 months and resigned after a political crisis. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from March 2020 to April 2022.
Although India is a parliamentary democracy, the country's politics has become dynastic or with high level of nepotism, possibly due to the absence of party organizations, independent civil-society associations which mobilize support for a party, or centralized financing of elections. The dynastic phenomenon is present at the national, state, regional, and district level. The Nehru–Gandhi family has produced three Indian prime ministers, and family members have largely led the Congress party since 1978. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also has several dynastic leaders. In addition to the major national parties, other national and regional parties such as Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Shiromani Akali Dal, Shiv Sena, Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal Secular, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Kerala Congress, Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, Indian Union Muslim League, AIMIM, and the Nationalist Congress Party are all dominated by families, mostly those of the party founders.
Kamal Patel is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He has served as a minister three times in Government of Madhya Pradesh and Member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly five times in 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, and 2018 representing the Harda Constituency). Agriculture in the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Arif Beg (1935–2016) was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader. He hailed from Indore in Madhya Pradesh state. His father, Qaramat ‘Pahalwan’ Baig, had reached Indore from Afghanistan.
Sunder Lal Patwa was an Indian politician, who served as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and a cabinet minister in the Government of India. He was Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh twice, from 20 January 1980 to 17 February 1980 and from 5 March 1990 to 15 December 1992.
Umrao Singh was an Indian freedom fighter and political activist from Sehore district, Madhya Pradesh. He served as a Deputy Minister and Cabinet Minister in the former Bhopal state, and a member of the First Cabinet of the state of Madhya Pradesh. He served as an MLA in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th Vidhan Sabha of the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Ajay Singh, also known as Rahul Bhaiya, is an Indian politician from the state of Madhya Pradesh. He is MLA representing Churhat Assembly constituency.
Dr. Sitasharan Sharma is an Indian politician, lawyer, and doctor. He served as the Speaker of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He is the incumbent MLA from Narmadapuram. He is a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. It is his 6th term as MLA from the same constituency. He also served as the Chief Whip of the Bharatiya Janata Party Vidhaayak Dal in Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 1998 to 2003.
Jitendra Patwari is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress. He was the Cabinet Minister for Higher Education, Sports and Youth Affairs of Madhya Pradesh. He is the current president of Madhya Pradesh Congress.
The Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha or the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Madhya Pradesh state in India.
Omkar Singh Markam is a politician from Madhya Pradesh and a member of the Indian National Congress. He is currently appointed the state president of Adivasi Congress and general secretary of Madhya Pradesh Congress. He is four term MLA from Dindori having won the elections in 2008, 2013, 2018 and 2023, and he was the Cabinet Minister for Tribal Affairs Department in the Government of Madhya Pradesh from 2018 to 2020. In the 2024 election for the Lok Sabha, he was announced as the candidate of Indian National Congress from Mandla (ST). He was also the candidate in the 2014 election. He has done his MA in Sociology and is a farmer by profession, with interest in cultural programmes, social reform and poverty eradication programmes.
Dr Vijaylaxmi Sadho is an Indian social worker, politician and a former member of parliament elected from Madhya Pradesh, being an Indian National Congress candidate. Sadho represents Maheshwar in the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. She took oath as a cabinet minister of new MP government on 25 December 2018.
Elections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held on 28 November 2018 to elect members of the 230 constituencies in Madhya Pradesh. The election was a direct political battle between the BJP and the INC. One of the main centers of attraction was the contest between Congress heavy-weight Arun Yadav and the then Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. While the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government had tried to win for consecutive 4th term, the INC fought for winning the state after 2003. The election led to a hung assembly, with the INC emerging as the single largest party and the BJP winning the popular vote. After the results, Congress and BSP formed the government with Kamal Nath becoming the chief minister.
Tulsi Ram Silawat is an Indian politician serving as a cabinet minister in the Madhya Pradesh state government and a two-time representative of the Sanwer constituency in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He took the oath as a cabinet minister in the new Madhya Pradesh government on 25 December, 2018. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 21 March, 2020, and took oath as the Water Resources Minister under Shivraj Singh Chouhan's cabinet on 21 April, 2020. On 20 October, 2020, he resigned from the post of Water Resources Minister. Because, as per Article 164 (4) of the Indian Constitution, a minister who is not a member of the House must be elected to an assembly within 6 months of being appointed minister.
Vasant Rao Uikey was an Indian politician and a Cabinet Minister from the state of Madhya Pradesh. He served as an MLA in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Vidhan Sabha of the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Ramnivas Rawat is an Indian politician serving as Madhya Pradesh Working President of the Indian National Congress . He started his political career in Indian Youth Congress and had been the five-time legislator from Vijaypur constituency in Madhya Pradesh Vijaypur and cabinet minister in the Government of Madhya Pradesh in Digvijaya Singh cabinet. He unsuccessfully contested for Indian parliament in 2019 against BJP leader Narendra Singh Tomar.
Arif Aqueel was an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress party. He was the Muslim MLA from Bhopal Uttar in the state of Madhya Pradesh. He served as a Cabinet Minister, Ministry of Minority Affairs and Backward Classes, Ministry of Bhopal Gas Relief and Distribution, Ministry of Medium and Small Enterprises, Government of Madhya Pradesh. He is the only Muslim minister in Madhya Pradesh to hold this post after a gap of 15 years.
Sachin Yadav is an Indian politician and member of Indian National Congress. He is a third-time MLA from Kasrawad Constituency of Khargone District (M.P.) and a former cabinet minister in the Madhya Pradesh Government from 2018 to 2020. He is the son of the late Congress leader Shri Subhash Yadav, who was former Deputy Chief Minister of MP, and the brother of former Union Minister of State and Former MP Congress Chief Arun Yadav.
In March 2020, a political crisis took place in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, due to the resignation of 22 sitting MLAs of the Indian National Congress party from the state's Legislative Assembly. It eventually led to the fall of the Kamal Nath government and the subsequent formation of the fourth Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh.
Priyavrat Singh is an Indian politician who is a member of the Indian National Congress, and the Formar Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Madhya Pradhesh, He was the Ex. MLA from Khilchipur Assembly constituency, He is very Popular in his constituency. Hailing from the erstwhile royal family of Khilchipur State, he is also known as Raja Rao Bahadur Priyavrat Singh. He also served as the state President of the Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress.
