The Rashtriya Janata Dal is an Indian political party,based in the states of Bihar and Jharkhand. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Tariq Anwar is an Indian politician as member of the Indian National Congress (INC). He served as the Minister of State of Agriculture and Food Processing Industries between 2012 and 2014.
Ram Vilas Paswan was an Indian politician from Bihar and the Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Distribution in the first and second Modi ministries. Paswan was also the president of the Lok Janshakti Party,nine-times Lok Sabha member and two-time Rajya Sabha MP. He started his political career as member of Samyukta Socialist Party and was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1969. Later,Paswan joined Lok Dal upon its formation in 1974,and became its general secretary. He opposed the emergency,and was arrested during this period. He first entered the Lok Sabha in 1977,as a Janata Party member from Hajipur constituency,and was elected again in 1980,1989,1991,1996,1998,1999,2004 and 2014.
Buta Singh was an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. He was the Union Home Minister of India,Governor of Bihar and was chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes from 2007 to 2010.
Akhilesh Prasad Singh is an Indian politician from Bihar,India. He is a member of the Indian National Congress. In 2018,he was elected to Rajya Sabha from Bihar as member of Congress. He was appointed Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee President on 5th December 2022.
Meira Kumar is an Indian politician and former diplomat. A member of the Indian National Congress,she was the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment from 2004 to 2009,the Minister of Water Resources for a brief period in 2009. She served as the 15th Speaker of Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014,being the first woman to hold the post. Kumar became just the second woman to be nominated for president of India by a major political block when she secured the United Progressive Alliance's nomination in 2017.
Dev Kant Barooah was an Indian politician from Assam,who served as the 83rd President of the Indian National Congress during the Emergency from 1975 to 1978 and the 7th Governor of Bihar from 1971 to 1973. He also served as union cabinet minister for Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in Second Indira Gandhi ministry from 5th February 1973 to 10 th October 1974.He was a member of the 1st Lok Sabha and 6th Lok Sabha. the elder brother of famous assamese poet,Navakanta Barua and the first Assamese person to become the President of the Indian National Congress.
Uday Singh is an Indian politician and was a member of the 14th and 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Purnia constituency of Bihar as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).He is the son of Smt. Madhuri Singh,who was also a two-term member of parliament from the same constituency. Before 2019 election he switched to Indian National Congress. He belongs from a richest and powerful family of bihar owned more than 18000 acres of land and Air craft. He is a businessman and very close to the BJP and Congress as well.
Punjala Shiv Shankar was an Indian politician. He served as the Minister of External Affairs,Law,and Petroleum. He was a very influential minister in Indira Gandhi's and Rajiv Gandhi's cabinets and was one of the most senior politicians in India. He also served as Governor of Sikkim from 1994 to 1995 and Governor of Kerala from 1995 to 1996.
Nandi Yellaiah was an Indian politician from Indian National Congress party who served as a member of the Parliament of India from Nagarkurnool constituency of Telangana state in the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian Parliament.
Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India. It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee.
Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar was the first Deputy Speaker and then Speaker of the Lok Sabha in the Indian Parliament. He also served as the 5th Governor of Bihar.
Chandrashekhar Singh was a member of the Indian National Congress and served as the 16th Chief Minister of Bihar from August 1983 to March 1985. He also held a number of Union State Minister positions in the Ministry of Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. He was elected to Bihar Vidhan Sabha four times,and also to the Parliament a few times. He also the first minister for Ministry of Textiles.
Ram Sundar Das was an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Bihar state. He was a two-time Member of Parliament from Hajipur constituency.
Ram Subhag Singh was an Indian politician who was a member of the Indian National Congress. He served as a member of the 3rd and 4th Lok Sabha for Bikramganj and Buxar in the Bihar state of India in 1962 and 1967,respectively. After the split in the Congress party in 1969,he stayed with the Indian National Congress (Organisation). He was first leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha in 1969. He participated in the Indian independence movement. He was a cabinet minister in the Union Government led by the Congress party.
C. L. Ruala is an Indian politician from Mizoram and member of the Indian National Congress. He was a Member of Parliament of the 16th Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian Parliament. He was elected from the only one-seat Mizoram constituency. He won over Robert Romawia,IND candidate,and M. Lalmanzuala,Aam Aadmi Party candidate,by getting a total vote 210,485 (48.7%). He was also elected member in the previous term during 2009-2014.
Gangasandra Siddappa Basavaraj is an Indian politician. He is a member of Lok Sabha (2019–present),elected from Tumkur constituency in 2019. He started his political career with Congress,and is now a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He defeated former prime minister Sri H. D. Deve Gowda in the 2019 Indian general elections by a margin of nearly 15,000 votes in Tumkur Lok Sabha Constituency. He has been elected to Lok Sabha from Tumkur five times,in 1984,1989 and 1999 as member of Indian National Congress,and in 2009 and 2019 as member of BJP. In 2004 elections,he finished third as Congress candidate behind BJP and JD-S candidates in Tumkur. He joined BJP after this defeat. In 2014 he was the losing candidate for BJP. However,he defeated the political think-tank HD Deve Gowda in the same constituency in the 2019 Indian general election
Satya Narayan Sinha was an Indian National Congress politician who served as the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs. He was the first Leader of the House in Lok Sabha not to be a prime minister.
The next Indian general election is expected to be held in India between April and May 2024 to elect the members of the 18th Lok Sabha.
