Uma Bharti is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. She became involved with the Bharatiya Janata Party at a young age,unsuccessfully contesting her first parliamentary elections in 1984. In 1989,she successfully contested the Khajuraho seat,and retained it in elections conducted in 1991,1996 and 1998. In 1999,she switched constituencies and won the Bhopal seat.
The National Democratic Alliance is a centre-right to right-wing conservative Indian political alliance led by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It was founded on 15 May 1998 and currently controls the government of India as well as the government of 19 Indian states and one Union territory.
Babulal Gaur was an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who served as the 16th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. He was elected ten times to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly,twice from Bhopal South and eight times from Govindpura. He retired from electoral politics in 2018 due to old age.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan is an Indian politician who is serving as the 32nd Minister of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare and 23rd Minister of Rural Development since 11 June 2024. He was the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh from 2020 to 2023 and previously from 2005 to 2018 and a Member of Legislative Assembly in Madhya Pradesh from Budhni since 2006 to 2024 and previously from 1990 to 1991. Chouhan is the longest serving Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
Digvijaya Singh is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He is Ex-General Secretary of the Indian National Congress party's All India Congress Committee. Previously,he had served as the 14th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh,a central Indian state,for two terms from 1993 to 2003. Prior to that he was a minister in Chief Minister Arjun Singh's cabinet between 1980 and 1984. In 2019 Lok Sabha elections he was defeated by Pragya Singh Thakur for Bhopal Lok Sabha seat.
Vikram Verma is an Indian politician and a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Dhar,Madhya Pradesh. He formerly served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Rajya Sabha. He also served as a Minister in the Government of India for Youth and Sports Affairs from 2002 to 2004.
Faggan Singh Kulaste is an Indian politician. He served as the Minister of State for Rural Development and Steel of India in the Government of India. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was sworn in as Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel on 30 May 2019 under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kulaste is elected as a member of the 17th Lok Sabha (2019–2024). He represents the Mandla constituency of Madhya Pradesh. He was also Minister of State in Modi government. He has previously been a member of the 11th,12th,13th,14th,16th and 17th Lok Sabha.
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia is an Indian politician who is the 43rd Union Minister of Communications and the 10th Minister of Development of North Eastern Region since 2024. He was a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing the state of Madhya Pradesh from 2020 till his win in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He is a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha,representing the Guna constituency in Madhya Pradesh from 2002 until his defeat in the 2019 Indian general election,and then since 4 June 2024. He is a former member of the Indian National Congress (INC) from 2001 to 2020 and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2020. While a member of the INC,he was the Minister of State for Power and Corporate in the second Manmohan Singh ministry from 2012 to 2014.
Anurag Singh Thakur is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Hamirpur,Himachal Pradesh. He was former Minister of Sports,Youth Affairs and Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the Second Modi ministry. His father,Prem Kumar Dhumal was a former Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh.
Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian economist,politician and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) serving as the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs of the Government of India since 2019. She is a member of the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament,representing Karnataka since 2016 and previously represented Andhra Pradesh from 2014 to 2016. Sitharaman previously served as the 28th Defence Minister from 2017 to 2019,thereby becoming India's second female defence minister and the second female finance minister after Indira Gandhi,and the first full-time female minister to hold each of those portfolios. She served as junior minister in the Modi ministry between 2014 and 2017,holding successive positions,first for her dual appointment as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and the Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs from May to November 2014,and then as the Minister of State for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry from May 2014 to September 2017,before being elevated to senior posts within the Union Cabinet.
Neena Vikram Verma is an Indian politician from Madhya Pradesh state. She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a Member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly for Dhar Vidhan Sabha Constituency. Her husband is Vikram Verma,a senior BJP politician and former Union Minister.
Narendra Singh Tomar is an Indian politician and a member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He is the former Minister of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare. He has been Minister of Rural Development,Minister of Panchayati Raj,Minister of Mines and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in the Government of India during different periods of the First and Second Modi ministry. He is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was also a member of Fifteenth Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014 from Morena;Sixteenth Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2019 from Gwalior and 17th Lok Sabha from 2019 to 2023 from Morena. In 2019,he changed his constituency and was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from Morena.
A Legislative Assembly election was held on 25 November 2013 in Madhya Pradesh,India,with the result announced on 8 December. Along with four other state assembly elections,these were the first elections in which the Election Commission of India (ECI) implemented a "None of the above" (NOTA) voting option,allowing the electorate to register a neutral vote but not to outright reject candidates. In a first,the Election Commission of India also appointed Central Awareness Observers,whose main task was to oversee voter awareness and facilitation.
The Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha or the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Madhya Pradesh state in India.
Beti Bachao,Beti Padhao is a campaign launched by the Government of India. It mainly targets the clusters in Uttar Pradesh,Haryana,Uttarakhand,Punjab,Bihar and Delhi.
Vellamvelly Muraleedharan is an Indian politician from Kerala and former Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs of India from 2019 to 2024. He was the eighth State President of BJP in Kerala. He was also a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He was sworn in as a Union Minister on 30 May 2019. On 12 June 2019,Muraleedharan was appointed Government Deputy Chief Whip in the Rajya Sabha. He contested in the 2024 Indian general election from Attingal constituency,but lost.
Sarita Bhadauria is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh and one of the most influential Thakur community leaders in the State. She is also a member of 18th Legislative Assembly,Uttar Pradesh of India. She hails from the Etawah constituency in Uttar Pradesh which is considered to be the stronghold of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav. She defeated the Samajwadi party's candidate by 17234 votes in the 2017 Assembly and by 4277 votes in 2022 Assembly elections.
Chowkidar Chor Hai is a Hindi slogan used by the Indian National Congress (INC) in its election campaign for the 2019 Indian general election. The slogan was coined by the then INC president,Rahul Gandhi,against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) affiliated sitting Prime Minister Narendra Modi,after raising allegations of favouritism and price escalation in the Dassault Rafale deal. The slogan was coined with the intention of conveying that the person who was entrusted with safeguarding public money was in fact a thief;context being that PM Modi had in past claimed to be a "chowkidar" of the country.
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Madhya Pradesh on 17 November 2023 to elect all 230 members of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The results were declared on 3 December 2023.
