The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans,referring to Scheduled Castes,Scheduled Tribes,and Other Backward Classes (OBC),along with religious minorities. According to Kanshi Ram,when he founded the party in 1984,the Bahujans comprised 85 percent of India's population,but were divided into 6,000 different castes. The party claims to be inspired by the philosophy of Gautama Buddha,B. R. Ambedkar,Mahatma Jyotiba Phule,Narayana Guru,Periyar E. V. Ramasamy and Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj. Kanshi Ram named his protégée,Mayawati,as his successor in 2001. The BSP has its main base in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh where it was the second-largest party in the 2019 Indian general election with 19.3% of votes and third-largest in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election with 12.88% of votes. Its election symbol is an elephant which is the same symbol historically used by Dr. Ambedkar's Scheduled Castes Federation.
The Research and Analysis Wing is the foreign intelligence agency of India. The agency's primary function is gathering foreign intelligence,counter-terrorism,counter-proliferation,advising Indian policymakers,and advancing India's foreign strategic interests. It is also involved in the security of India's nuclear programme.
The All India Trinamool Congress,colloquially the Trinamool Congress is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in West Bengal. The party is led by Mamata Banerjee,the current Chief Minister of West Bengal,who has led the state since 2011. It is currently the fifth-largest party in the Lok Sabha with 22 seats and the fourth largest party by Number of MLAs. In 2016 the Election Commission recognized TMC as a national political party.
C. D. Sahay was chief of Research and Analysis Wing,India's external intelligence agency,from 1 April 2003 to 31 January 2005. He is a Karnataka cadre IPS officer of the 1967 batch.
The Aviation Research Centre (ARC) is India’s imaging-intelligence organisation,a part of the Directorate General of Security,run by the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). It started functioning in November 1962,in the wake of the Sino-Indian War,as an extension of the Intelligence Bureau,but placed under the Ministry of External Affairs. It was formally created on 7 September 1963,with R. N. Kao as Director and Acting Group Captain Lal Singh Grewal as Operations Manager at Charbatia air base. It was later moved to the Prime Minister's Secretariat,and in February 1965,along with Special Frontier Force and Special Service Bureau,was brought under the Directorate General of Security in the Cabinet Secretariat. ARC was initially a temporary and ad hoc organisation,but was made permanent in 1971. Over the years,ARC had grown into a large operation and flies a large and varied fleet that until recently included the high-flying Mach 3 capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25.
Ashok Chaturvedi,IPS was the chief of India's external intelligence agency the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) from 1 February 2007 to 31 January 2009. Chaturvedi succeeded P.K.H. Tharakan,a 1968 batch officer of the IPS Kerala cadre who retired on 31 January 2007.
The Electronics and Technical Services (ETS) is the Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) arm of India's external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW).
Dr Ramapati Ram Tripathi is the 17th Lok Sabha Member of Parliament in 2019 elections,he won the election from the Deoria seat of Uttar Pradesh,Dr Ramapati Ram Tripathi is a former president of Bharatiya Janata Party Uttar Pradesh state unit in India. He held the post of UP BJP General Secretary before being appointed as BJP's UP chief in September 2007.
Tripathi or Tripathy திரிபாதிis an Indian Hindu Brahmin family name. Tripathi and Tiwari both are synonymous.
Krishan Chander Verma was the Director of Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW),the external intelligence agency of India,his official designation was Secretary (R). He did his schooling from Mayo College,Ajmer. He belongs to the 1971 Jharkhand IPS cadre. He started his career at the Intelligence Bureau,was appointed as head of the Narcotics Control Bureau in 2005,and was later elevated to the position of Secretary (Security) and also served as Internal Security Adviser to Home Minister. He was laterally transferred to head R&AW after Ashok Chaturvedi retired from the post on 31 January 2009. One of the major challenges for K. C. Verma had been professionalise and streamline the agency,which has been in news in recent times for various scandals and controversies.
Keki N. Daruwalla is an Indian poet and short story writer in English. He is also a former Indian Police Service officer. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award,in 1984 for his poetry collection,The Keeper of the Dead,by the Sahitya Akademi,India's National Academy of Letters. He was awarded Padma Shri,the fourth highest civilian award in India,in 2014.
Vikram Sood is the former head of India's foreign intelligence agency,the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW),and an advisor to the Observer Research Foundation,an independent public policy think tank in New Delhi. Sood was an officer of the Indian Postal Service (IPoS) before he joined the intelligence organisation R&AW and later served as its spymaster from 2000 to 2003. He retired as a career intelligence officer with 31 years of service on 31 March 2003. He was trained under the mentorship of B. Raman and interviewed by R&AW's founding secretary R.N. Kao during induction. He is the author of the book The Unending Game:A Former R&AW Chief's Insights into Espionage published in 2018,which according to Sood is not a memoir but a beginner's guide to intelligence and espionage.
Alok Joshi was the former Secretary of Research and Analysis Wing.
Brij Lal is a 1977-batch IPS officer and an Indian politician. He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Director General of Police of Uttar Pradesh during the Mayawati Government. he belong to the Koli community of Uttar Pradesh.
Anil Dhasmana is the Current Chief of National Technical Research Organisation(NTRO). He was also the Chief of the Research and Analysis Wing(R&AW),India's foreign intelligence service. He was appointed as the Chief of R&AW as the post fell vacant on 31 January 2017 following the retirement of the incumbent.
Nagendra Nath Tripathi is an Indian politician currently serving as the Regional General Secretary (Organization) of the Bhartiya Janata Party Bihar-Jharkhand region. He has been a pracharak for the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh. He forms a bridge between Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Bhartiya Janata Party.
Om Prakash Singh is a 1983 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. He was the Director General of Uttar Pradesh Police,and had previously served as the Director General of CISF and Director General of NDRF.
Provincial Police Service,often abbreviated to as PPS,is the Group A state civil service for policing of Uttar Pradesh Police. It is also the feeder service for Indian Police Service in the state.
Arvind Kumar Sharma or A K Sharma is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh,Former IAS officer and Bureaucrat. He is currently the Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh. Before joining politics,Sharma was an Indian Administrative Service officer from Gujarat Cadre of the 1988 batch. Sharma is considered a close aide of Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi with whom he had worked for 20 years. He was also CEO,Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board and has also managed multiple Vibrant Gujarat summits. He joined the Prime Minister's Office as a Joint Secretary in 2014 and was elevated to the Additional Secretary rank in 2017. In 2019,he moved out of the PMO to become a secretary in the Ministry of Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises but took voluntary retirement in January 2021.
The Directorate General of Security is an organisation of covert operations under India's Cabinet Secretariat. It is one of the four legally defined intelligence organisations of India and listed in the Schedule of the Intelligence Organisations Act,1985,the other three being I.B.,R&AW and NTRO. Since 1971,the Secretary,Research and Analysis Wing has usually held the post of Director General. This organisation used to be composed of Special Service Bureau,Aviation Research Centre,Special Frontier Force and Chief Inspectorate of Armaments. Since the shifting of SSB and CIOA to the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2001,DGS consists of ARC and SFF only.
