The Rajya Sabha,constitutionally the Council of States,is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. As of 2023,it has a maximum membership of 250,of which 238 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using single transferable votes through open ballots,while the president can appoint 12 members for their contributions to art,literature,science,and social services. The potential seating capacity of the Rajya Sabha is 250,according to article 80 of the Indian Constitution. Members sit for staggered terms lasting six years,with about a third of the 238 designates up for election every two years,in even-numbered years. Unlike the Lok Sabha,the Rajya Sabha is a continuing chamber and hence not subject to dissolution. However,the Rajya Sabha,like the Lok Sabha,can be prorogued by the president.
Lal Krishna Advani is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. Advani is one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a long time member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,a volunteer organisation. He also served as Minister of Home Affairs in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government from 1998 to 2004. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the 10th Lok Sabha and 14th Lok Sabha and also the longest serving person of this post. He was the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP in 2009.
Najma Akbar Ali Heptulla is an Indian politician. She is the Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia since 2017. She was a six time member of the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian parliament,between 1980 and 2016,and Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha for sixteen years when she was a member of Congress. Later she was nominated vice-president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2012,and was a minister from 2014-2016 as a member of BJP in Narendra Modi's first government. From 2016 to 2021,she served as the 16th Governor of Manipur.
Sarbananda Sonowal is an Indian politician of Bharatiya Janata Party from Assam who is serving as the current Cabinet Minister of Ports,Shipping and Waterways and Cabinet Minister of AYUSH,Government of India and the member of the Rajya Sabha representing Assam since 2021and also a member of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs since 2021. He is the 14th Chief Minister of Assam from 2016 to 2021 and the former of Assam Legislative Assembly from Majuli from 2016 until he resigned in 2021 and from Moran constituency from 2001 to 2004. Sonowal earlier served as the Assam state unit President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2012 to 2014 and again from 2015 to 2016. He has also served as the Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs,Government of India,from 2014 to 2016 and the Minister of State for Entrepreneurship and Skill Development from 2014 to 2014 and the member of the Lok Sabha from Lakhimpur from 2014 to 2016 and from Dibrugarh from 2004 to 2009. He was also the member of the Asom Gana Parishad from 2001 to 2011.
Lilabari Airport,also known as North Lakhimpur Airport,is a domestic airport serving the city of North Lakhimpur in Assam,India. It is located at Lilabari,8 km (5.0 mi) north from the city centre.
Bijoya Chakravarty,is an Indian politician of Bharatiya Janata Party. She served as the Member of the Lok Sabha from Gauhati from 2009 to 2019 and from 1999 to 2004. She was the Union Minister of State for Water Resources from 1999 to 2004. She was also the Member of the Rajya Sabha from 1986 to 1992 as a member of the Asom Gana Parishad. She was one of the first members of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2021.
Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge is an Indian politician,who is the current president of the Indian National Congress,and Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 16 February 2021. He became the first person outside the Nehru–Gandhi family to be the president of the party after 24 years. He currently serving as Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha from 17 December 2022. He was formerly the Minister of Railways and Minister of Labour and Employment in the Government of India. Kharge was a Member of Parliament for Gulbarga,Karnataka from 2009 to 2019.
Chandra Shekhar was an Indian politician who served as the 8th Prime Minister of India,between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal with outside support from the Indian National Congress. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who had never held any prior government office.
Sanjaya Sinh is an Indian politician and a former member of the Rajya Sabha. He was twice elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh during the 1980s and held state ministerial posts. In 1990,he became a member of the upper house of the Parliament of India,which is known as the Rajya Sabha,and in 1998 he was elected to the lower house,called the Lok Sabha. His term in the 12th Lok Sabha session lasted until the following year. Subsequently,in 2009,he was successful in obtaining a second term in that house as a member of the 15th Lok Sabha representing the Sultanpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh. He represented the state of Assam in the Rajya Sabha. He resigned from Rajya Sabha and Indian National Congress to join Bharatiya Janata Party on 30 July 2019.
Banwarilal Purohit is an Indian politician who is the current and 29th Governor of Punjab,India and Administrator of Chandigarh as of 29 August 2021. He was the former Governor of Tamil Nadu from 2017 to 2021,and former Governor of Assam from 2016 to 2017. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a Member of Parliament from the Nagpur three times,twice as an Indian National Congress member,once as a BJP member.
Maniben Patel was an Indian independence movement activist and a Member of the Indian parliament. She was the daughter of freedom fighter and post-Independence Indian leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Educated in Bombay,Patel adopted the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi in 1918,and started working regularly at his ashram in Ahmedabad.
Narendra Kumar Prasadrao Salve was a veteran Indian politician from Indian National Congress,parliamentarian and a cricket administrator. Former Union minister and president of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) (1982–1985),he was instrumental in bringing the Cricket World Cup outside England and to the Indian subcontinent in 1987. Salve was a staunch advocate for the separate statehood of Vidarbha.
Chandresh Kumari Katoch is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress party. She is a former Minister of Culture in India's central government. She was a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha,representing Jodhpur constituency. Katoch was sworn in as Cabinet Minister in the Government of India on 28 October 2012,and was given the portfolio of the Ministry of Culture. She is daughter of Maharaja Hanwant Singh of Jodhpur and Maharani Krishna Kumari and is married into the royal family of Kangra with Raja Aditya Dev Chand Katoch,in Himachal Pradesh. She contested but lost in the 2014 Indian general election.
Premala Chavan,also known as Premalabai and Premalakaki,was an Indian politician and was a member of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. The Founder-President of the All India Women's Cricket Association,she was involved in various other activities that contributed to the welfare of women in Indian society. Chavan is notable for holding the record for the most number of representations (four) in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha,by a female M.P. from Maharashtra.
Dinesh Goswami was an Indian politician. He was the Law and Justice Minister under the V.P.Singh government in 1989. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from the Gauhati constituency in 1985.He was also a member of the Rajya Sabha from Assam.
Lakhimpur Assembly constituency is one of the 126 assembly constituencies of Assam a north east state of India. Lakhimpur is also part of Lakhimpur Lok Sabha constituency.
Naoboicha Assembly constituency is one of the 126 assembly constituencies of Assam a north east state of India. Naoboicha is also part of Lakhimpur Lok Sabha constituency.
Pradan Baruah is an Indian politician who is member of Parliament and elected to 16th Lok Sabha from Lakhimpur seat since November 2016. He won the by-election in November 2016,after the seating member Sarbananda Sonowal resigned from the seat in May 2016 after becoming the Chief Minister of Assam. He was earlier the member of Assam Legislative Assembly from Dhemaji Assembly constituency in Dhemaji district.
Dhakuakhana Assembly constituency is one of the 126 assembly constituencies of Assam Legislative Assembly. Dhakuakhana forms part of the Lakhimpur Lok Sabha constituency.
Bharat Chandra Narah is an Indian National Congress politician from Assam and MLA serving his sixth term from Naoboicha constituency since 2021. He was previously a five-term MLA of Dhakuakhana constituency,1985-2011,and a cabinet minister in the Assam government,1985-1987,1988-1990,and 2001-2011. He was the Chief Minister's Press Advisor with cabinet rank,2012-2016. Before joining the Congress,Narah was a member of the Asom Gana Parishad. He was also a leader of the All Assam Students' Union. His wife,Ranee Narah,is a former Union Minister of India and four-term Member of Parliament.
