Virbhadra Singh ( ) was an Indian politician who served 6 terms and 21 years as the 4th Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. A leader of the Indian National Congress party, he was elected 9 times as a Member of Legislative Assembly to the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha and 5 times as Member of Parliament to the Lok Sabha. Virbhadra Singh was popularly known by the honorific Raja Sahib. Singh holds the distinction of being the longest serving Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, holding the office from 1983 to 1990, from 1993 to 1998, from 2003 to 2007 and finally from 2012 to 2017, when he was succeeded by the BJP's Jai Ram Thakur. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1962, 1967, 1971, 1980 and 2009. Singh served as a Union Minister in the governments of Indira Gandhi and Manmohan Singh. At the time of his demise, he was serving as an MLA from Arki constituency.
Pratapgarh, also called Belha or Bela Pratapgarh, is a town and municipality in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Pratapgarh district, part of the Prayagraj division.
Basti district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state, India, and a part of Basti Division. Basti city is the district headquarters.
Bahraich district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and Bahraich town is the district headquarters. Bahraich District is a part of Devipatan Division.
Rajgarh district is a district of Madhya Pradesh in central India. The city of Rajgarh is the administrative headquarters of the district. The old name of Rajgarh was Jhanjhanipur. Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh is one of the aspirational districts selected by Government of India. The district has an area of 6,154 km² and the population is 1,545,814. The district lies on the northern edge of the Malwa plateau, and the Parbati River forms the eastern boundary of the district, while the Kali Sindh River forms the western boundary. The district has seven tehsils, Rajgarh, Khilchipur, Jirapur, Biaora, Narsinghgarh, Sarangpur and Pachore. The district is bounded by Rajasthan state to the north, and by the districts of Guna to the northeast, Bhopal to the east, Sehore to the southeast, and Shajapur to the south and west. It is part of Bhopal Division. There are 1728 villages in Rajgarh.
Unnao district is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The city of Unnao is the district headquarters. The district is part of Lucknow Division.
Gursarai is a city and municipal board in the Jhansi district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Gursarai is situated in the Garautha Tehsil. An emerging city in Jhansi District With having an old and established market, it's a lifeline for the nearby village people who come and sell their farm produces.
Haidergarh is a town and a nagar panchayat in the Barabanki district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Musafirkhana is a town and tehsil in Amethi district in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The word "Musafirkhana" means "Sarai," or "Dharamshala". Musafirkhana is located 32 km northwest of Amethi, 20 km from Jagdishpur. Gauriganj and Amethi are accessible from Musafirkhana via roadways; the nearest railway station is the Musafirkhana railway station on the Lucknow–Varanasi rail route via Sultanpur, and the nearest airport is the Amausi airport. It is surrounded by more than 100 villages. The town is between 26.37° north latitude and 81.8° east longitude at a height of 102 metres (434 feet) above mean sea level.
Balrampur district is one of the district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and is a part of Devipatan division as well as the historic Awadh regions. It has been cut from the adjacent district Gonda in 1997. Located on the banks of the West Rapti River. Balrampur is known for the temple of Pateshwari Devi, a Shakti Pitha, and for the ruins of the nearby ancient city of Sravasti, now a pilgrimage site for Buddhists and Jains. The nearest airport is Shravasti airport 23.3 kilometres (14.5 mi) from the town but it is not an international and regular airport; the nearest international and regular airport is Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in Lucknow, 235 kilometres (146 mi) away. Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh and is 220 kilometres (140 mi) from Balrampur district headquarters.
Bahraich Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. Bahraich is reserved for the SC category.
Bakshi Ka Talab is a nagar panchayat town in Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is also the headquarters of a corresponding tehsil, as well as a community development block of the same name. As of 2011, its population was 49,166, in 8,728 households. It consists of both residential and business settlements. Bakshi Ka Talab is an organised settlement developed by Lucknow Development Authority (LDA). It is connected to Lucknow via National Highway 24.
Katghara is a village in Ram Nagar Block of Mariahu Tehsil of Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Its Postal Zip Code is 222161
Kanpur Dehat district is a district in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The administrative headquarters of the district are at Mati-Akbarpur. This district is part of Kanpur division. Kanpur was formerly spelled Cawnpore.
Jai Ram Thakur is an Indian politician, and was the Chief Minister of the state of Himachal Pradesh from 2017 to 2022. He is serving his sixth term as MLA in the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly, winning continuously since 1998 and has previously served as a Cabinet Minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party Government of Himachal Pradesh. Thakur was the Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj from 2009 to 2012. He is serving as Leader of opposition in current legislative assembly of the state.He is elected to Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Seraj Assembly constituency of Mandi district. He won his first election in the year 1998 from now delimited constituency of Chachiot (Seraj).
Suhaldev or Suheldev was a legendary king from Shravasti. Persian Hagiography Mirat-i-Masudi, written in 17th century, popularly mentions him to have defeated and killed the Ghaznavid general Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud at Bahraich in 1034 CE.
Khiwai is a town and nagar panchayat situated in the Saroorurpur khurda Block of sardhana tehsil Meerut District in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located at a distance of 7.916 kilometres from the Mandal headquarters at Sarurpur Khurd, and is 26.16 kilometres from the district headquarters at Meerut. The population, according to the 2011 Census of India was 21,049 and the village is largely Muslim.
Barhan is a town in Etmadpur tehsil, Agra district, Uttar Pradesh, India, located at 30 km from the city of Agra. It's primarily populated by Brahmins,Thakurs, Jain, Gautam, Baghel, Barbar, Kushwaha, Ahirs, Scheduled Castes and a few other communities.
Gothawn is a town located in the Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It comes under the Martinganj subdistrict There are three main religions Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. International Buddhist Temple is the most important place here. It was founded by Venerable Chandrajeet Gautam.
Akshaibar Lal is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He defeated his nearest rival, Shabbir Balmiki of Samajwadi Party by 1,28,752 votes. He was a member of the 17th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Balha from 2017 to 2019. Lal served as an MLA for five terms.
