Rahul Rajiv Gandhi is an Indian politician and a former member of the Indian Parliament,who represented the constituencies of Amethi,Uttar Pradesh and Wayanad,Kerala in the Lok Sabha. He is a member of the main opposition party,the Indian National Congress and was the party president from December 2017 to July 2019. He is the chairperson of the Indian Youth Congress,the National Students Union of India and a trustee of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust. On 23 March 2023,he was convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment by a court in Gujarat for a 2019 speech made against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on defamation allegations related to his surname;the conviction resulted in his disqualification from the Parliament.
The Indian Youth Congress is the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party. The Indian Youth Congress was a department of the Indian National Congress from the period just after the Partition of India in 1947 until the late 1960s. While prime minister,Indira Gandhi gave the Youth Congress a new dimension by establishing it as a frontal organisation of the Congress Party,with the objective of doing social work and arguing against right-wing parties. Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi was the first elected president of the Indian Youth Congress;
Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa,often referred as BSY,is an Indian politician. He is currently serving as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary board committee since 17 August 2022,termed as the highest office of authority in the party. He served as the 13th Chief Minister of Karnataka,and he was former Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly between 1983 - 2022 in different timelines. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is also the only politician so far in Karnataka to have served four times as the Chief Minister and three times as the Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He is the longest serving BJP Chief Minister of Karnataka. He is former MLA from Shikaripura constituency in Shimoga district,from where he has been elected eight times.
Suresh Channabasappa Angadi was an Indian politician who served as the Union Minister of State for Railways of India from 30 May 2019 to 23 September 2020. He was Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha from 2004 to September 2020. He was a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Karnataka.
Sarbananda Sonowal is an Indian politician of Bharatiya Janata Party from Assam who is serving as the current Cabinet Minister of Ports,Shipping and Waterways and Cabinet Minister of AYUSH,Government of India and the member of the Rajya Sabha representing Assam since 2021and also a member of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs since 2021. He is the 14th Chief Minister of Assam from 2016 to 2021 and the former of Assam Legislative Assembly from Majuli from 2016 until he resigned in 2021 and from Moran constituency from 2001 to 2004. Sonowal earlier served as the Assam state unit President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2012 to 2014 and again from 2015 to 2016. He has also served as the Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs,Government of India,from 2014 to 2016 and the Minister of State for Entrepreneurship and Skill Development from 2014 to 2014 and the member of the Lok Sabha from Lakhimpur from 2014 to 2016 and from Dibrugarh from 2004 to 2009. He was also the member of the Asom Gana Parishad from 2001 to 2011.
The Sri Ram Sena,or Sri Ram Sene,is a right-wing Hindutva group founded &headed by Pramod Muthalik. It has received media attention for its acts of moral policing,including the 2009 Mangalore pub attack.
Pramod Muthalik is the chief of the Rashtriya Hindu Sena,the parent organisation of the Sri Ram Sena.
Social Democratic Party of India,popularly known as SDPI,is an Indian political party which was founded on 21 June 2009 in New Delhi. The party is considered the political wing of the banned Islamic organization Popular Front of India (PFI).
Himanta Biswa Sarma is an Indian politician and lawyer serving as the 15th and current Chief Minister of Assam since 2021. A former member of the Indian National Congress,Sarma joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 23 August 2015. He is a five time Member of the Assam Legislative Assembly from Jalukbari,having been elected since 2001. He also served as Minister in the Government of Assam from 2016 to 2021,2011 to 2014,2006 to 2011,2002 to 2004 and from 2004 to 2006. The BJP appointed him the convener (leader) of the North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) since 2016. Sports Activities - Sarma was also the President of the Badminton Association of India since 2017,President of Assam Cricket Association in 2016 and vice president from 2002 to 2016. Sarma studied at Cotton College and later obtained a bachelor of laws from Government Law College in Guwahati. He later became a solicitor and practised law at Gauhati High Court before his entry to politics. Himanta has also worked in a movie called "Koka Deuta Hati Aru Nati".
Harsh Vardhan is an Indian otorhinolaryngologist. He had served as the Minister of Health and Family Welfare,Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences in the BJP-led NDA government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from 30 May 2019 to 7 July 2021. He represents Chandni Chowk in Delhi as a Member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha. He was elected to the office of chairperson of executive board of the World Health Organization from May 22,2020. Vardhan has been prominent in the Indian government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He later resigned from his cabinet post ahead of the cabinet reshuffle in July 2021.
The Indian National Congress (INC) is one of the two major political parties in India. The prominent members of the party are the president Sonia Gandhi,vice-president Rahul Gandhi,former prime minister Manmohan Singh and Priyanka Gandhi. INC took part in the elections alongside other members of the United Progressive Alliance. On the fourth anniversary of the second United Progressive Alliance government,the INC announced that its campaign for the election would be led by Prime minister Manmohan Singh,party chairperson Sonia Gandhi,and general secretary Rahul Gandhi.
Lakya SuryanarayanaTejasvi Surya is an Indian politician,RSS swayamsevak and lawyer serving as the Member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party,representing the Bangalore South constituency. He is also the president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha since 26 September 2020.
Events in the year 2020 in India.
On the evening of 24 March 2020,the Government of India ordered a nationwide lockdown for 21 days,limiting the movement of the entire 1.38 billion population of India as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 pandemic in India. It was ordered after a 14-hour voluntary public curfew on 22 March,followed by enforcement of a series of regulations in the countries COVID-19 affected regions. The lockdown was placed when the number of confirmed positive coronavirus cases in India was approximately 500. Upon its announcement,a mass movement of people across the country was described as the largest since the partition of India in 1947. Observers stated that the lockdown had slowed the growth rate of the pandemic by 6 April to a rate of doubling every six days,and by 18 April,to a rate of doubling every eight days. As the end of the first lockdown period approached,state governments and other advisory committees recommended extending the lockdown. The governments of Odisha and Punjab extended the state lockdowns to 1 May. Maharashtra,Karnataka,West Bengal,and Telangana followed suit. On 14 April,Prime minister Narendra Modi extended the nationwide lockdown until 3 May,on the written recommendation of governors and lieutenant governors of all the states,with conditional relaxations after 20 April for the regions where the spread had been contained or was minimal.
The Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund was created on 27 March 2020,following the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Although it is named for the Prime Minister of India,and uses the State Emblem of India,it is a private fund,used at the discretion of the Prime Minister and the Fund's trustees,and does not form a part of the Government of India's accounts. The Fund was established for the purpose of redressing the Covid-19 pandemic in India,in 2020. While complete documentation for the Fund's establishment has not been made public,the Government of India has stated that the Prime Minister of India,Narendra Modi,is the chairman of the fund,and that trustees include the Minister of Defence,Rajnath Singh;the Minister of Home Affairs,Amit Shah,the Minister of Finance,Nirmala Sitharaman,and several corporate leaders and industrialists,including Ratan Tata,and Sudha Murty.
A Tablighi Jamaat religious congregation that took place in Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz Mosque in early March 2020 was a COVID-19 super-spreader event,with more than 4,000 confirmed cases and at least 27 deaths linked to the event reported across the country. Over 9,000 missionaries may have attended the congregation,with the majority being from various states of India,and 960 attendees from 40 foreign countries. On 18 April,4,291 confirmed cases of COVID-19 linked to this event by the Union Health Ministry represented a third of all the confirmed cases of India. Around 40,000 people,including Tablighi Jamaat attendees and their contacts,were quarantined across the country.
The first responses of the government of India to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country involved thermal screenings of passengers arriving from China,the country from which the coronavirus disease 2019 originated,as well as of passengers arriving from other countries. As the pandemic spread worldwide,the Indian government recommended social distancing measures and also initiated travel and entry restrictions. Throughout March 2020,several shutdowns and business closures were initiated,and by the end of the month,the Indian government ordered a widespread lockdown. An economic package was announced in May 2020.
On 9 August 2020,a major fire broke out in early morning hours at a COVID-19 facility located at the Hotel Swarna Palace in the city of Vijayawada,in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The fire blaze killed 11 people and wounded a further 22. The hotel was used as a temporary COVID-19 facility as it was leased out by the private hospital Ramesh Hospitals Vijayawada for the purpose of treating infected COVID-19 patients. An electrical short circuit was described as the ultimate reason for the incident. The fire had been brought under control by the firefighters within a space of 30 minutes. The patients who survived from the fire blaze were transferred to another quarantine centre.
Events in the year 2021 in India
Events in the year 2022 in India.
