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.
Babulal Gaur Yadav was an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who served as the 16th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. He was elected ten times to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly,twice from Bhopal South and eight times from Govindpura. He retired from electoral politics in 2018 due to old age.
Although India is a parliamentary democracy,the country's politics has become dynastic or with high level of nepotism,possibly due to the absence of party organizations,independent civil-society associations which mobilize support for a party,or centralized financing of elections. The dynastic phenomenon is present at the national,state,regional,and district level. The Nehru–Gandhi family has produced three Indian prime ministers,and family members have largely led the Congress party since 1978. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also has several dynastic leaders. In addition to the major national parties,other national and regional parties such as Shiromani Akali Dal,Shiv Sena,Samajwadi Party,Rashtriya Janata Dal,Janata Dal Secular,Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,Kerala Congress,Jammu &Kashmir National Conference,Indian Union Muslim League,AIMIM,and the Nationalist Congress Party are all dominated by families,mostly those of the party founders.
Kamal Patel is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He has served as a Member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly five times in 1993,1998,2003,2008,and 2018 representing the Harda Constituency. On 21 April 2020,he was appointed as the Cabinet Minister and currently serves as the Minister of Agriculture in the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Sunder Lal Patwa was an Indian politician,who served as the 11th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and a cabinet minister in the Government of India. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the only politician who defeated congress strong man Kamal Nath in 1997 from Chhindwara constituency for member of parliament. He was born in the village of Kukreshwar located between Manasa and Rampura in the Neemuch District of Madhya Pradesh.
Sushma Swaraj was an Indian lawyer,politician,and diplomat who served as the Minister of External Affairs of India in the first Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. She was the second person to complete a 5-year term as the Minister of External Affairs,after Jawaharlal Nehru. A senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),Swaraj was the second woman to hold the office of Minister of External Affairs,after Indira Gandhi. She was elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. At the age of 25 in 1977,she became the youngest cabinet minister of the Indian state of Haryana. She also served as 5th Chief Minister of Delhi for a short duration in 1998 and became the first female Chief Minister of Delhi.
Brajesh Pathak is an Indian politician and a member of the 18th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. Presently he is serving as one of the Deputy Chief Minister and Cabinet Minister of Medical Education,Medical and Health and Family Welfare in the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
Satya Pal Singh Baghel is an Indian politician. A member of Bharatiya Janata Party,he got elected to 17th Lok Sabha from Agra. 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.
Nand Kumar Sai is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Indian National Congress and is a former member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,1989–1991 and 1996–1998,from Raigarh when it was in Madhya Pradesh. In 2004 he was elected a member of the 14th Lok Sabha representing Surguja constituency of Chhattisgarh. He was elected a Rajya Sabha MP from Chhattisgarh in 2009 and 2010. He remained an MP until 2016.
Motilal Vora was an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress (INC). He served as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. He was born in Nimbi Jodha,Jodhpur State,British India. He was also Governor of Uttar Pradesh from 1993 to 1996.
Laxminarayan Sharma was an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party and was a member of the Parliament of India representing Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He was a former cabinet minister of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He began his legislative career in 1967 and was an MLA for 35 years.
Anusuiya Uikey is a politician and currently serving as the governor of Manipur &formerly of Chhattisgarh. She was elected to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Damua in the 1985 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Indian National Congress. She became Minister for Women and Child Development in Arjun Singh cabinet. By 1998,she had crossed over to BJP and was its losing candidate in 1998 Vidhan Sabha election from Damua. She became a member of Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh in 2006.
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.
Govind Singh is an Indian politician from the INC. On 28 April 2022 Kamal Nath has resigned as the Leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly. All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Sonia Gandhi appointed former minister and senior party MLA from Lahar,India Govind Singh as Leader of Opposition. He served as the Minister of Cooperatives,Parliamentary affairs and General administration in Government of Madhya Pradesh under Chief Minister Kamal Nath between December 2018 and March 2020.
Pandit Ram Kishore Shukla was an Indian politician and an activist for Indian independence.
Kunwar Singh Tekam is the Bharatiya Janata Party Member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly for Dhauhani constituency in Sidhi district. He gained 60704 (54.58%) votes in the 2008 election. He gained 60130 votes in the 2013 election and was reelected in the 2018 election.
Kumari Vimla Verma popularly known as "BUA JI" (बुआजी) sister of father born 1 July 1929) was a political and social worker and a Member of Parliament elected from the Seoni constituency in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh being an Indian National Congress candidate.
Nagendra Singh is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and has won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Khajuraho. He was previously a minister in the Government of Madhya Pradesh before becoming Member of Parliament.
Tulsi Ram Silawat is an Indian politician serving as a cabinet minister in the Madhya Pradesh state government and a two-time representative of the Sanwer constituency in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He took the oath as a cabinet minister in the new Madhya Pradesh government on 25 December,2018. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 21 March,2020,and took oath as the Water Resources Minister under Shivraj Singh Chouhan's cabinet on 21 April,2020. On 20 October,2020,he resigned from the post of Water Resources Minister. Because,as per Article 164 (4) of the Indian Constitution,a minister who is not a member of the House must be elected to an assembly within 6 months of being appointed minister.
Maheshwar Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. Dr. Vijayalaxmi Sadho represents the constituency in the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha.
