Lal Krishna Advani is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. He is one of the co-founders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a right-wing Hindu nationalist volunteer organization. He is the longest serving Minister of Home Affairs serving from 1998 to 2004. He is also the longest serving Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. He was the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP during the 2009 general election.
Leh district is a district in Indian-administered Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir-region. Ladakh is an Indian-administered union territory. With an area of 45,110 km2,it is the second largest district in the country,second only to Kutch. It is bounded on the north by Gilgit-Baltistan's Kharmang and Ghanche districts and Xinjiang's Kashgar Prefecture and Hotan Prefecture,to which it connects via the historic Karakoram Pass. Aksai Chin and Tibet are to the east,Kargil district to the west,and Lahul and Spiti to the south. The district headquarters is in Leh. It lies between 32 and 36 degree north latitude and 75 to 80 degree east longitude.
The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council,Leh is one among the two Autonomous District Council of Ladakh Union Territory. LAHDC Leh administers the Leh district of Ladakh,India.
Ladakh Union Territory Front (LUTF) was formed in 2002 as a conglomerate of political parties in Ladakh in India.
Thupstan Chhewang is an Indian politician who was a member of the 14th and 16th Lok Sabha representing the Ladakh constituency in the former state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council,Kargil,is one among the two Autonomous District Councils of the union territory of Ladakh,India. LAHDC Kargil administers the Kargil District of Ladakh.
Qamar Ali Akhoon is an Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir. He is a senior member of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference.
Haji Asgar Ali Karbalai is an Indian political and social leader from Kargil,Ladakh. He has been the Chief Executive Councillor of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council,Kargil twice. As of December 2014,he is a member of the Legislative assembly of Jammu and Kashmir. He is an influential member of the socio-religious organisation Imam Khomeini Memorial.
Francisco Casimiro Jerónimo Agnelo Pinto de Souza,better known as Francis D'Souza,was an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Goa. He had first unsuccessfully contested in the 1989 Goa Legislative Assembly election from the Mapusa Assembly constituency as an Independent candidate.
Chering Dorjay is an Indian politician and was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Dorjay was a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council from the Assembly Kashmir (Ladakh). He was Minister for Cooperatives and Ladakh Affairs in Jammu and Kashmir till 19 June 2018.
Ganapathi P. Rajkumar is an Indian politician active in the state of Tamil Nadu. He served as the 5th mayor of Coimbatore from 2014 to 2016. He contested in the 2024 Indian general election from the Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency as a candidate of the DMK.
Jamyang Tsering Namgyal,also known by his initials JTN,is an Indian politician who served as a Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha for Ladakh,India's largest parliamentary seat geographically. Namgyal was elected,on 9 November 2018,to be the youngest and 8th Chief Executive Councillor (CEC) of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council,Leh. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The Administration of Union Territory of Ladakh(sic) is the governing authority of the Indian union territory of Ladakh and its two districts. The Administration is led by a Lieutenant Governor appointed by the President of India who acts on behalf of the central Government of India. Ladakh does not have an elected legislative assembly. The two districts of Ladakh both elect their own autonomous district council-the Leh Autonomous Hill development council and the Kargil Autonomous Hill development Council,which have competence over a range of domestic affairs.
Politics of Ladakh is exercised within democratic setup of the Indian-administered union territory of Ladakh. Major power centres are Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council,Leh and Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council,Kargil alongside Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency. Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party are major political parties. Ladakhi religious organisations like Ladakh Buddhist Association,Imam Khomeni Memorial Trust and Anjuman-e-Jamiat-ul-Ulama Asna Asharia have major influences as well.
Elections were held in October 2020 for the 26 seats of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council,Leh. The Bharatiya Janata Party won 15 and the Indian National Congress won 9 seats respectively out of the 26 seats. The other 2 seats were won by 2 independent candidates.
Elections in India in 2023 were held in the Rajya Sabha,state legislative assemblies of nine states and several local bodies.
Tashi Rabstan is an Indian Judge. Presently,he is the Chief Justice of Jammu &Kashmir and Ladakh High Court. He has also served as Acting Chief Justice of Jammu &Kashmir and Ladakh High Court.
Jagadish Debbarma is an Indian politician and current Chairman of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC).
Elections were held in October 2023 for the 26 seats of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council,Kargil. This was also the first election conducted in the union territory of Ladakh since its split from Jammu and Kashmir in 2019.
Haji Mohmad Haneefa Jan is an Indian politician from Kargil serving as a member of the Lok Sabha representing the only constituency of the union territory of Ladakh.
