Kanshi Ram,also known as Bahujan Nayak or Manyavar or Saheb,was an Indian politician and social reformer who worked for the upliftment and political mobilisation of the Bahujans,the backward or lower caste people including untouchable groups at the bottom of the caste system in India. Towards this end,Kanshi Ram founded Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti (DS-4),the All India Backwards (SC/ST/OBC) and Minorities Communities Employees' Federation (BAMCEF) in 1971 and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 1984. He ceded leadership of the BSP to his protégéMayawati who has served four terms as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Hoshiarpur is a city and a municipal corporation in Hoshiarpur district in the Doaba region of the Indian state of Punjab. It was founded,according to tradition,during the early part of the fourteenth century. In 1809,it was occupied by the forces of Maharaja Karanvir Singh and was united into the greater state of Punjab in 1849.
Hoshiarpur district is a district of Punjab state in northern India. Hoshiarpur,one of the oldest districts of Punjab,is located in the North-east part of the Punjab state and shares common boundaries with Gurdaspur district in the north-west,Jalandhar district and Kapurthala district in south-west,Kangra district and Una district of Himachal Pradesh in the north-east. Hoshiarpur district comprises 4 sub-divisions,10 community development blocks,9 urban local bodies and 1417 villages. The district has an area of 3365 km2. and a population of 1,586,625 persons as per census 2011.
Ravidassia or the Ravidas Panth is a religion based on the teachings of Ravidass,who is revered as a satguru.
Thawar Chand Gehlot is an Indian politician who is the current and 13th Governor of Karnataka,being the first person serving as the Governor of Karnataka from Madhya Pradesh. He assumed office of the Governor of Karnataka on July 11,2021. He also served as the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment from 2014 to 2021. He was also the Leader of the House in the upper house of Indian Parliament. He was a member of the Parliamentary Board and the Central Election Committee of the BJP.
The Indian state of Gujarat was created out of the 17 northern districts of former State of Bombay. The Mahagujarat movement was instrumental in the formation of a separate state,Gujarat. Politics in Gujarat is mostly dominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress. The state has been governed by the BJP since 1998,and is considered a stronghold of the party.
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 is the current 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.
The politics of Bihar,an eastern state of India,is dominated by regional political parties. As of 2021,the main political parties are Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD),Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),Janata Dal (United) (JDU),and Indian National Congress (INC). There are also some smaller regional parties,including Samata Party,Hindustani Awam Morcha,Rashtriya Lok Janata Dal,Jan Adhikar Party and Vikassheel Insaan Party,Lok Janshakti Party and Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party,which play a vital role in politics of state. As of 2022,Bihar is currently ruled by Mahagatbandhan (Grandalliance) coalition.
Banwarilal Purohit is an Indian politician who is the current and 29th Governor of Punjab,India and Administrator of Chandigarh as of 29 August 2021. He was the former Governor of Tamil Nadu from 2017 to 2021,and former Governor of Assam from 2016 to 2017. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a Member of Parliament from the Nagpur three times,twice as an Indian National Congress member,once as a BJP member.
The elections in 2012 were scheduled for seven Vidhan Sabhas and several local elections were also conducted. The 14th presidential election to elect the 13th president of the republic was also held in 2012. The tenure of the legislative assemblies of Goa,Gujarat,Himachal Pradesh,Manipur,Punjab,Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand were to expire during the year. The Election Commission of India issued the dates for the elections in Manipur,Punjab,Uttarakhand,Uttar Pradesh and Goa to take place in the first quarter of the year. Whereas the elections were held in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat in the last quarter of the year.
Mohinder Singh Kaypee,is an Indian politician and member of Indian National Congress.
Som Parkash is a politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry,Government of India. He is a Member of Parliament from Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha Constituency and an Ex-MLA from Phagwara. He is also a former Deputy Commissioner of Jalandhar and former IAS officer of 1988 batch in Punjab cadre. Som Parkash,who was born on 3 April 1949,is an MA (Economics) from the Punjab University,Chandigarh. He had started his career as a research officer in the Punjab State Planning Board in 1972. Thereafter,he became an excise and taxation officer in the Punjab Excise Department. Som Parkash has served as the deputy commissioner of Faridkot,Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar and has also held posts like the Labour Commissioner,Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) chief administrator,managing director of the Punjab Financial Corporation and director of the Social Security Department.
Kamal Sharma was an Indian political activist for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and former political secretary to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. In 2013,he was elected head of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for Punjab. He was replaced by Vijay Sampla on 8 April 2016 after having completed the mandated three-year term in January.
Jitan Ram Manjhi is an Indian politician from the eastern state of Bihar who served as its 23rd Chief Minister from 20 May 2014 to 20 February 2015. He was President of Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM). Previously,he had served as minister for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes welfare in Nitish Kumar's cabinet. He has been a minister in several Bihar state governments,under multiple chief ministers like Chandrashekhar Singh,Bindeshwari Dubey,Satyendra Narayan Sinha,Jagannath Mishra,Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi.
Dinanath Bhaskar is an Indian politician active in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Once a close associate of Kanshi Ram,he was a founding member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and was Minister for Health during the state's coalition government of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and BSP in 1993. He quit the BSP to join the SP in 1996,rejoined the BSP around 2009 and in 2015 joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Vijay Bahadur Yadav is an Indian politician and a member in 15th and 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. Since 2012,he represents Gorakhpur Rural as a member of Samajwadi Party. Earlier he represented Maniram in 2007–2012 as Bharatiya Janata Party.
Atti is a village in Phillaur tehsil of Jalandhar District of Punjab State,India. It is located 2 km away from national highway 1 and 3.5 km away from postal head office Bara Pind. The village is 7 km away from Goraya,12 km from Phillaur,40 km from Jalandhar,and 121 km from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch who is elected representative of village.
A Legislative Assembly election was held in the Indian state of Punjab on 4 February 2017 to elect the 117 members of the Fifteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly. The counting of votes was done on 11 March 2017. The ruling pre-election coalition was the alliance comprising the political parties Shiromani Akali Dal and Bharatiya Janata Party and led by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. The voter turnout for the Punjab Assembly election was 77.2% The Indian National Congress led by former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh defeated the ruling alliance and the newcomer Aam Aadmi Party.
Gurkanwal Kaur is an Indian Politician from the state of Punjab. Kaur represented the Jalandhar Cantt Assembly Constituency from 2002 to 2007. Kaur was from the Indian National Congress but in 2017 she joined Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Union finance minister Arun Jaitley and Punjab BJP president,Vijay Sampla.
Bharatiya Janata Party,Punjab,is the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Punjab. Its head office is situated at the Amar Sahid Dr. Syama Prasad,Mukherjee Smarak Bhawan,Dakshin Marg,Sector-37-A,Chandigarh,Punjab-160036,India. The current president of BJP Punjab is Ashwani Kumar Sharma.
