Related Research Articles
Ajit Pramod Kumar Jogi was an Indian politician,who served as the first chief minister of Chhattisgarh,India. He was a member of the political party named Janta Congress Chhattisgarh.
Purno Agitok Sangma was an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Meghalaya from 1988 to 1990 and Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998. 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.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was an Indian politician who served as the sixth president of India,serving from 1977 to 1982. Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress Party in the independence movement,he went on to hold several key offices in independent India —as Deputy Chief minister of Andhra state and the first Chief Minister of United Andhra Pradesh,a two-time Speaker of the Lok Sabha and a Union Minister—before becoming the Indian president.
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is a centre-left political alliance in India led by the Indian National Congress (INC). It was formed after the 2004 general election with support from left-leaning political parties when no single party got the majority. The UPA subsequently governed India from 2004 until 2014 before losing power to their main rivals,the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). The UPA currently rules six states of India.
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.
Feroze Varun Gandhi or Varun Gandhi(listen) is an Indian politician and a third-term member of Parliament for Lok Sabha from the Pilibhit constituency. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and was inducted into Rajnath Singh's team in March 2012 as General Secretary. He belongs to the Nehru–Gandhi family,which has occupied a prominent place in the politics of India since a time before the country's independence in 1947.
Operation Duryodhana (2005) was the code name of a sting operation,which captured on camera eleven members of Parliament of India accepting money to table questions on the floor of the Parliament.
Annasaheb M. K. Patil is an Indian politician with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a member of parliament in the 14th Lok Sabha of India,representing the Erandol constituency of Maharashtra. In the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government (1999–2004),he was Minister of State for Rural Development.
Yashwant Giridhar Mahajan was an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party. He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India,representing the Jalgaon constituency of Maharashtra.
Raja Ram Pal is an Indian politician with the Samajwadi Party,and was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha from Akbarpur. Earlier,as a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP),he had been a member of the 14th Lok Sabha from Bilhaur,before being expelled on 23 December 2005,along with ten others,after the sting Operation Duryodhana. The expulsion was sub judice when the 14th Lok Sabha finished its term.
Lalchandra or Lal Chandra Kol is an Indian politician. He stood for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections on the BSP ticket becoming a Member of Parliament from Robertsganj.
Chandrapratap Singh is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party. He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India,representing the Sidhi constituency of Madhya Pradesh.
Ramsevak Singh is an Indian politician and is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India,where he represented the Gwalior constituency of Madhya Pradesh.
Manoj Kumar was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Palamau constituency of Jharkhand and is a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) political party.
Ranjeet Ranjan also known as Ranjeeta is an Indian politician serving as Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from Chhattisgarh. She was member of the 14th Lok Sabha as a Member of Parliament from Supaul,Bihar from the Indian National Congress party.
Vidya Charan Shukla was an Indian politician whose political career spanned six decades. He was predominantly a member of the Indian National Congress,but also had spells in Jan Morcha,Janata Dal,Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya),Nationalist Congress Party and Bharatiya Janata Party. He was known as a close associate of Indira Gandhi.
Chhatrapal Singh Lodha is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party elected as Rajya Sabha MP from Orissa. He has also served 4 times as Lok Sabha MP of Bulandshahr from 1991 to 2004.
General elections were held in India between 1 and 10 March 1971 to elect members of the 5th Lok Sabha. They were the fifth general elections since independence in 1947. The 27 Indian states and union territories were represented by 518 constituencies,each with a single seat. Under the leadership of Indira Gandhi,the Indian National Congress (R) led a campaign which focused on reducing poverty and won a landslide victory,overcoming a split in the party and regaining many of the seats lost in the previous election.
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA),the governing alliance in India elected in 2004,faced its first confidence vote in the Lok Sabha on 22 July 2008 after the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front withdrew support over India approaching the IAEA for the Indo-US nuclear deal. The vote was so crucial that the UPA and the opposition parties summoned MPs from their sick beds and even from prison cells to take part in the vote,which was eventually won by the Government.
Cobrapost is a non-profit Indian news website that was founded in 2005 by Aniruddha Bahal –the co-founder of Tehelka. It is particularly known for its undercover investigative journalism.
References
- ↑ Home Page on the Parliament of India's Website
- ↑ Aniruddha Bahal. "Operation Duryodhana". Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Contains detailed description of the interaction with each MP.
- ↑ K.V. Prasad (24 December 2005). "11 MPs expelled for cash-for-questions scam". The Hindu . Archived from the original on 8 May 2010.
 | This article about a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Chhattisgarh is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |