Arjun Singh was an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress,who served twice as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in the 1980s. He also served twice as the Union Minister of Human Resource Development,in the Manmohan Singh and P. V. Narasimha Rao ministries.
Satya Pal Singh Baghel is an Indian politician and Memeber of Parliament (Loksabha). A member of Bharatiya Janata Party,he got elected to 17th Lok Sabha from Agra and again to 18th Lok Sabha from the same constituency. He previously was a member of Samajwadi Party,in which he got elected to Lok Sabha thrice and to Rajya Sabha once as a member of Bahujan Samajwadi Party.
Ganesh Singh is an Indian politician belonging to BJP and a member of parliament from Satna,Madhya Pradesh. He is elected 4 times in a row from this constituency.
Govind Narayan Singh,was an Indian politician. He was Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh from 30 July 1967 to 12 March 1969. He was also Governor of Bihar state from 26 February 1988 to 24 January 1989.
Kushwaha is a community of the Indo-Gangetic Plain that has traditionally been involved in agriculture,including beekeeping. The term has been used to represent different sub-castes of the Kachhis,Kachhvahas,Koeris and Muraos. Under the Indian government's system of positive discrimination,the Kushwahas are classified as a "Backward" or Other backward class. The Kushwaha had worshipped Shiva and Shakta,but beginning in the 20th century,they claim descent from the Suryavansh (Solar) dynasty via Kusha,one of the twin sons of Rama and Sita. At present,it is a broad community formed by coming together of several caste groups with similar occupational backgrounds and socio-economic status,who,over the time,started inter-marrying among themselves and created all India caste network for caste solidarity. The communities which merged into this caste cluster includes Kachhi,Kachhwaha,Kushwaha,Mali,Marrar,Saini,Sonkar,Murai,Shakya,Maurya,Koeri and Panara.
Satna (सतना) Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency presently covers the entire Satna district of the state.
Loknath Mahato was a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the state of Jharkhand,India,elected from constituency Barkagaon which is in the Hazaribagh district of the state. He was first elected in 1995. Since then he has been re-elected three times,representing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),one of the main national parties of India. He was one of the contenders in the 12 December 2019 Jharkhand state assembly elections from Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). In 2014,Mahto had left BJP to join All Jharkhand Students Union,when denied ticket to contest from Hazaribagh Lok Sabha constituency. He participated in 2014 Lok Sabha elections and finished at third position.
Rampur-Baghelan Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951,as one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh state. This constituency was abolished in 1961 but came into existence again in 1966.
Kurwai is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1957,as one of the Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state. This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes since 1977,following the delimitation of the Legislative Assembly constituencies.
Rao Uday Pratap Singh Indolia is an Indian politician and current Minister for Transport and School Education,Government of Madhya Pradesh. He was elected in the Indian Lok Sabha from Narmadapuram for 3 consecutive terms from 2009 to 2023. He is the current Member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Gadarwara. He won the 2014 and 2019 elections for Member of Parliament as a member of the BJP. He won 2019 Lok Sabha Polls from Narmadapuram Lok Sabha constituency with the record margin of 5,53,682 votes.
Keshav Prasad Maurya is an Indian politician,currently serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Maurya was associated with a right-wing Hindu organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,before entering active politics through BJP. He was also involved in cow protectionism in his early life. Before 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections,he was made state president of the BJP,and after the victory of BJP,he was appointed as Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in the first Yogi Adityanath Government. Maurya again contested the legislative assembly elections in 2022 from Sirathu Assembly constituency,losing to Pallavi Patel of Samajwadi Party. However,he was given a second term as Deputy CM in the second Yogi Adityanath government.
Maihar is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951. It is one of the 7 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Satna district. The constituency is part of Satna Lok Sabha constituency. As of 2023,its representative is Srikant Chaturvedi of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Narayan Singh Kushwah alternatively spelt as Narayan Singh Kushwaha,is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Kushwah was a member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Gwalior South constituency in Gwalior district. He was the former Minister of State for Home Affairs in the Shivraj Singh Chauhan cabinet. Kushwah has also served as the state president of Bhartiya Janata Party's Other Backward Class wing for the state of Madhya Pradesh.
Hina Kawre is an Indian politician and a member of the INC. She has served as the deputy speaker of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
Sabhakunwar Kushawaha is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. He is a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for Bhatpar Rani constituency number 340. He became an M.L.A. in the May 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election representing Bharatiya Janata Party.
Kushwaha is a surname used by people of Koeri caste in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The Kushwahas are also known as Maurya,Shakya,Saini in various parts of north India. As per one opinion,the Kushwaha surname is also common among members of Kachhi caste,who later merged with the Koeris to become a single homogeneous community. They are a dominant OBC community in the state of Bihar.
Shakya is an Indian surname and is part of the broader Kushwaha community including other surnames like Maurya,Kachhi,Saini,Koeri etc,who collectively assert descent from Kusha,a son of the avatar of Vishnu,Rama. This caste group is considered as one of the most numerous OBC castes in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. It is estimated that they are distributed across the states,in almost all assembly constituencies. In Uttar Pradesh,they have preponderance in Etah Lok Sabha constituency.
Sukhlal Kushwaha was an Indian politician from Madhya Pradesh,who served as Member of Indian Parliament from Satna Lok Sabha constituency. He was a member of Bahujan Samaj Party and in his first ever Lok Sabha elections in 1996,he defeated veteran leader and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh,Arjun Singh. In later part of his political career,he joined Samajwadi Party. His son Siddarth Sukhlal Kushwaha was elected as Member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Satna Assembly constituency,which comes under his Lok Sabha constituency.
Bharat Singh Kushwah,alternatively spelt as Bharat Singh Kushwaha,is an Indian politician from Madhya Pradesh,who was elected to Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Gwalior Rural Assembly constituency in 2013 Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections. Kushwah is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party and has served as Minister of State in the Ministry of Horticulture and Food Processing of Madhya Pradesh. He is a two term MLA from Gwalior Rural Assembly constituency. In 2024 Indian general election,he was elected to Lok Sabha from Gwalior Lok Sabha constituency.
Pratima Bagri is an Indian politician from Madhya Pradesh. She is an MLA of Bharatiya Janata Party from Raigaon Assembly Constituency,which is reserved for SC community,in Satna District. She won the 2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election.
