David Frawley,also known as Vamadeva Shastri is an American writer,astrologer,teacher (acharya) and a proponent of Hindutva.
Taruvai Subayya Krishnamurthy is a former Indian Revenue Service officer who served as 13th Chief Election Commissioner (C.E.C) of India. His main assignment as C.E.C was to oversee the 2004 elections to the Lok Sabha. He had earlier served in the Election Commission of India as a commissioner since January 2000.
Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan was an Indian civil servant and bureaucrat who served with the Indian Administrative Service. After serving in various positions in Madras and in various ministries of the Central Government,he served as the 18th Cabinet Secretary of India in 1989. He was appointed the 10th Chief Election Commissioner of India (1990–96) and became known for his electoral reforms. He won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for government service in 1996.
The Chief Election Commissioner of India heads the Election Commission of India,a body constitutionally empowered to conduct free and fair elections to the national and state legislatures and of President and Vice-President. This power of the Election Commission of India is derived from the Article 324 of the Constitution of India. Chief Election Commissioner of India is usually a member of the Indian Civil Service and mostly from the Indian Administrative Service. It is very difficult to remove the authority of the Chief Election Commissioner once appointed by the president,as two-thirds of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha need to present and vote against him for disorderly conduct or improper actions.
Navin Chawla is a retired Indian civil servant and writer,who served as 16th Chief Election Commissioner of India. Four phases of the Indian general election to the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian Parliament,were executed under his supervision in April and May 2009.
Jainism is considered to be a legally distinct religion in India. A section of scholars earlier considered it as a Hindu sect or a Buddhist heresy,but it is one of the three ancient Indian religions. On 27 January 2014,the Government of India explicitly awarded the status of a "minority religion" to the Jain community in India,as per Section 2(c) of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) Act (NCM),1992.
Mohammad Shahabuddin was a politician and former Member of Parliament from the Siwan constituency in the state of Bihar. He was a former member of the National Executive Committee of the Janata Dal and the Rashtriya Janata Dal. Shahabuddin was disqualified from contesting elections following his conviction for the kidnapping and disappearance of Chote Lal Gupta,an activist of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation for which he was serving a life sentence. He was also accused of killing 15 other Communist Party activists,including the former student leader Chandrashekhar Prasad.
Manohar Singh Gill was an Indian bureaucrat,politician,and writer. As a bureaucrat,he served as a member of the Indian Administrative Service from 1958 until his retirement in 2001 as Chief Election Commissioner of India. Upon his retirement,he joined the Indian National Congress and was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Punjab in 2004 and served as a member of the upper house until his retirement in 2016. He also served as Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports from 2008 to 2011 and as Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation in 2011.
The Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is a literary honour in India bestowed by the Sahitya Akademi,India's National Academy of Letters. It is the highest honour conferred by the Akademi on a living writer,the number of fellows at no time exceeding 21. Elected from among writers thought by the Akademi to be of acknowledged merit,the fellows are sometimes described as the "immortals of Indian literature."
N. Gopalaswami,served as 15th Chief Election Commissioner of India (CEC) and has been awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2015. He is a 1966 batch Indian Administrative Services officer belonging to the Gujarat cadre. He took over the charge of CEC on 30 June 2006 and retired in April 2009. He is currently the president of Vivekananda Educational Society which runs a group of schools in and around Chennai. He was appointed as the Chairman of Kalakshetra for a term of five years starting from 22 October 2014,until 2019.
Dr. Mohan Madhukar Rao Bhagwat is a political activist and veterinarian who is currently serving as the 6th and current Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in India since 2009.
Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath served as 18th Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of the Election Commission of India from 2012 to 2015. He succeeded S. Y. Quraishi as the Chief Election Commissioner on 11 June 2012. Born on 16 January 1950,Sampath retired on 15 January 2015 when he attained 65 years of age.
Syed Shahabuddin was an Indian politician and diplomat from Gaya,Bihar. He began as a diplomat working for the Indian Foreign Service,but later became well known as one of the most articulate Muslim politicians of independent India. He switched careers after the Emergency,at the time when the Congress began its decline and Hindu nationalism first started its ascent to power. He served three terms from 1979-1996 as a member of the Parliament of India. He was known for his leadership of the Muslim opposition to the Shah Bano case and the Demolition of Babri Masjid. He died in March 2017 of long-term asthma,at a hospital near his residence in Delhi,India.
Dr Satendra Singh is a medical doctor at the University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital,Delhi. A physiologist by profession,Singh contracted poliomyelitis at the age of nine months but went on to complete a Bachelor of Medicine,Bachelor of Surgery from Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College,Kanpur and later on Doctor of Medicine in Physiology. He is the first-ever Indian to win the prestigious Henry Viscardi Achievement Awards given to extraordinary leaders in the global disability community.
Vinay Prabhakar Sahasrabuddhe is an Indian politician. He was a Member of the Parliament of India and represented the state of Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha from 2016-22. He has also served as National Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party from August 2014 –September 2020. Dr. Sahasrabuddhe,since 2018 has been appointed as President of Indian Council for Cultural Relations. He is known as a political scholar and an occasional columnist. He is the Vice Chairman of Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini,a research and training academy for elected representatives &social activists. As Member of Parliament,he has also served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education,Women,Children and Youth &Sports. He is regarded as one of the foremost intellectuals from the BJP,the ruling party in the Central Government and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a Hindu Nationalist organization.
Achal Kumar Jyoti is a retired 1975 IAS officer of Gujarat cadre who served as 21st Chief Election Commissioner of India from 6 July 2017 to 23 January 2018.
Om Prakash Rawat is a retired 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre who served as 22nd Chief Election Commissioner of India. He has also served as one of the two Election Commissioners of India and the Public Enterprise Secretary of India.
Sushil Chandra is a 1980 batch IRS (IT) officer. He was the 24th Chief Election Commissioner of India. He previously served as the Chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes.
Rajiv Kumar is a former Indian Administrative Service officer. On 15 May 2022,he assumed the charge as the 25th Chief Election Commissioner of India,succeeding Sushil Chandra.
J. Sai Deepak is an Indian Hindutva activist,lawyer,and writer. As a counsel,he practices before the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi.
