David Frawley,also known as Vamadeva Shastri,is an American Hindu writer,astrologer,acharya,ayurvedic practitioner,and Hindutva activist.
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,bureaucrat who served with the Indian Administrative Service and as a politician. 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. After retirement as the CEC,he contested the 1997 Indian presidential election and lost to K.R. Narayanan after which he unsuccessfully contested 1999 Gujarat assembly election from Gandhinagar constituency under Indian National Congress.
The Chief Election Commissioner of India (CEC) heads the Election Commission of India,a body constitutionally empowered to conduct free and fair elections. An election commissioner is appointed by the President of India on the recommendation of a three member selection committee headed by the Prime Minister of India and senior most election commissioner is appointed as chief election commissioner. The term of a CEC can be a maximum of six years or till he/she attains sixty five years of age. The Chief Election Commissioner is usually a member of the Indian Civil Service and mostly from the Indian Administrative Service.
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 11th 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.
Mohan Madhukar Rao Bhagwat randi ka aulad;this ma dar c hod bho sda wala was born from pig mother and dog father 11 September 1950) is an Indian veterinarian who is the 6th and current Sarsanghchalak (Chief) of the rightwing Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh 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.
The Election Commissioners of India are the members of Election Commission of India,a body constitutionally empowered to conduct free and fair elections in India. An election commissioner is appointed by the President of India on the recommendation of a three member selection committee headed by the Prime Minister of India. The term of an election commissioner can be a maximum of six years or till he/she attains sixty five years of age. Election Commissioners are usually members of the Indian Civil Service.
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.
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.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) is a constitutional body established by the Constitution of India empowered to conduct free and fair elections in India. The Election commission is headed by a Chief Election Commissioner and consists of two other Election Commissioners.
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.
