The Rashtriya Janata Dal is an Indian political party,mainly based in the state of Bihar. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Tariq Anwar is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress (INC),and a Member of Parliament representing Katihar in Bihar,India. He served as the Minister of State of Agriculture and Food Processing Industries between 2012 and 2014.
Sanjay Nirupam is a former member of the Indian Parliament from Indian National Congress party,and former President of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee. Nirupam served two terms as an MP in the Rajya Sabha first as a member of the Shiv Sena and then as a member of the Congress Party. He represented North Mumbai Lok Sabha constituency from 2009 to 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.
Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency covers the entire Union Territory of Puducherry. Pondicherry became a union territory after the implementation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India in 1962 and changed its name to Puducherry in 2006. This constituency first held elections in 1967 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Thirumudi N. Sethuraman of the Indian National Congress.
Dr. 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 belongs from a Bhumihar family. He was appointed Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee President on 5 December 2022. His wife belongs to Bhumihar Caste.
Giridhari Yadav is an Indian politician,Member of Parliament (Loksabha) and member of Janata Dal (United) political party. He represents Banka Lok Sabha Constituency,Bihar.
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 Madhuri Singh,who was also a two-term member of parliament from the same constituency. Before 2019 election he switched to Indian National Congress.
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.
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.
Elections in the state of Bihar,India are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India. The Assembly of Bihar creates laws regarding the conduct of local body elections unilaterally while any changes by the state legislature to the conduct of state level elections need to be approved by the Parliament of India.
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 from Karnataka. He is a five time MLA from Tumkur Lok Sabha constituency. He now represents Bharatiya Janata Party.
Chhedi Paswan is a former member of 16th Lok Sabha and a former member of Bihar Legislative Assembly. He represented the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2024. At various points,he has been with Janata Party,then its Charan Singh faction,then the reunited Janata Dal,Bahujan Samaj Party,Nationalist Congress Party,Lalu Prasad Yadav's RJD and Nitish Kumar's JD(U).
Satya Narayan Sinha was an Indian National Congress politician who served as the member of Constituent Assembly and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs. He was the first Leader of the House in Lok Sabha not to be a prime minister.
