Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) is a public state university at Summer Hill,Shimla,Himachal Pradesh. It was established on 22 July 1970 by The Himachal Pradesh University Act,1970 by the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly,before the emergence of Himachal Pradesh as a full state of India.
Shankersinh Vaghela is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Gujarat from. He was also the Leader of Opposition in 13th Gujarat Legislative Assembly.
Mandi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the four Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Himachal Pradesh state in northern India represented by Kangana Ranaut,a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party since 2024.
Suresh Chandel is an Indian politician. He was a member of the 12th,13th and 14th Lok Sabhas of India,representing the Hamirpur constituency of Himachal Pradesh as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party.
Colonel Dhani Ram Shandil (Retd.) is an Indian politician from Himachal Pradesh. He is a member of the Indian National Congress political party.
Shanta Kumar Sharma is an Indian politician who was the 3rd Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh and a Union Minister in the Government of India. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha from Kangra constituency in 1989. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998,1999 and 2014 from the same constituency. He has written a number of books. He is the first and only person not of a Rajput background who has served as the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh.
Prem Kumar Dhumal is an Indian politician who has twice served as the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh,from March 1998 to March 2003 and again from 1 January 2008 to 25 December 2012. He was the Bharatiya Janata Party's Chief Ministerial candidate for the 2017 Himachal Assembly Election,in which he lost his seat.
Kalraj Mishra is an Indian politician,serving as the governor of Rajasthan. He is the former governor of Himachal Pradesh and cabinet minister of Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises in the BJP-led NDA government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Being affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),he was a member of Parliament from Deoria constituency in Uttar Pradesh from 2014 to 2019.
Rajesh Verma is an Indian politician,a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and former Loksabha Member of Parliament. He was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha in 1999,the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004,the 16th Lok Sabha in 2014 and the 17th Lok Sabha in 2019 from Sitapur constituency in Uttar Pradesh state. In 2019 he won his fourth 4th election in Sitapur as a BJP candidate by 101,000 votes. He lost his Loksabha MP seats in 2024 Indian General Election from Sitapur.
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.
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.
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.
Virender Kashyap is an Indian politician,belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party. In the 2009 election he was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Shimla constituency in Himachal Pradesh.
Gangapuram Kishan Reddy is an Indian politician who serving as the 25th Minister of Coal &45th Minster of Mines since 2024. He also served as Minister of Tourism,Culture and Development of North Eastern Region of India from 2019 to 2024. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party since 1980. He is an MP representing Secunderabad since 2019. He served as the floor leader of the BJP in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 2009 and gave it up after being elected as the state BJP president of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. He was first state president of Telangana BJP from 2014 to 2016,appointed again as Telangana BJP president on 4 July 2023.
Om Birla is an Indian politician,agriculturist,and social worker who is serving as the 17th Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2019. He serves as a Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha from Kota-Bundi constituency in Rajasthan since 2014. In 2024 he became the first person in 20 years to be re-elected as an MP to the lower house,after serving as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. He was also a member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly representing Kota South Assembly constituency from 2003 to 2014. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Jai Ram Thakur is an Indian politician,and was the Chief Minister of the state of Himachal Pradesh from 2017 to 2022. He is serving his sixth term as MLA in the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly,winning continuously since 1998 and has previously served as a Cabinet Minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party Government of Himachal Pradesh. Thakur was the Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj from 2009 to 2012. He is serving as Leader of opposition in current legislative assembly of the state.He is elected to Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Seraj Assembly constituency of Mandi district. He won his first election in the year 1998 from now delimited constituency of Chachiot (Seraj).
Vinod Kumar Sonkar is an Indian politician,a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Member of Parliament from Kaushambi,Uttar Pradesh,from 2014 to 2024. During his tenure as Member of Parliament,he served as the chairperson of the Lok Sabha parliamentary committee on Ethics. He has also served as a National secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Reena Kashyap is an Indian politician. She was elected to the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Pachhad in the 2019 by election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. By-elections happen due to Suresh Kumar Kashyap elected to Parliament.
Vishal Nehria is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Dharamshala constituency in the 2019 by election as a member of the BJP as the then-incumbent member of the constituency,Kishan Kapoor,got elected to the Parliament of India.
Bharatiya Janata Party,Himachal Pradesh,or simply,BJP HP is the affiliate of Bharatiya Janata Party for the state of Himachal Pradesh. Its head office is situated at the Deep Kamal Chakkar,Shimla.
