Rahul Rajiv Gandhi is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian Parliament who represents the constituency of Wayanad,Kerala,in the Lok Sabha. He previously represented the constituency of Amethi,Uttar Pradesh. He is a member of the main opposition party,the Indian National Congress,and was the party president from December 2017 to July 2019. Gandhi 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. He is the son of the former Prime Minister of India,Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi.
Smriti Zubin Irani is an Indian politician and former actress,fashion model and television producer. She has been Minister of Women and Child Development since 2019,and also Minister of Minority Affairs since 2022. She previously served as Minister of Human Resource Development,Minister of Textiles,and Minister of Information and Broadcasting. She was the youngest minister in prime minister Narendra Modi's second ministry in 2019.
The Chief Election Commissioner of India (CEC) heads the Election Commission of India,a body constitutionally empowered to conduct free and fair elections. An election commissioner is appointed by the President of India on the recommendation of a three member selection committee headed by the Prime Minister of India and senior most election commissioner is appointed as chief election commissioner. The term of a CEC can be a maximum of six years or till he/she attains sixty five years of age. The Chief Election Commissioner is usually a member of the Indian Civil Service and mostly from the Indian Administrative Service.
Navin Chawla is a retired Indian civil servant and writer,who served as 16th Chief Election Commissioner of India. Four phases of the Indian general election to the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian Parliament,were executed under his supervision in April and May 2009.
General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters,they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 elections. Around 23.1 million or 2.7% of the total eligible voters were aged 18–19 years. A total of 8,251 candidates contested the 543 elected Lok Sabha seats. The average election turnout over all nine phases was around 66.40%,the highest ever in the history of Indian general elections.
N. Gopalaswami,served as 15th Chief Election Commissioner of India (CEC) and has been awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2015. He is a 1966 batch Indian Administrative Services officer belonging to the Gujarat cadre. He took over the charge of CEC on 30 June 2006 and retired in April 2009. He is currently the president of Vivekananda Educational Society which runs a group of schools in and around Chennai. He was appointed as the Chairman of Kalakshetra for a term of five years starting from 22 October 2014,until 2019.
The organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is based upon the Constitution of the BJP. The organisation of the BJP is strictly hierarchical,with the president being the highest authority in the party. The party is considered to be a cadre-based party that draws from the Hindutva-based ideology of its parent organisation,the RSS.
All India Mahila Congress (AIMC),also referred to as Mahila Congress,is the women's wing of the Indian National Congress (INC). It was founded in 1940 to promote the political and social empowerment of women in India. Currently Alka Lamba heads the All India Mahila Congress as its president appointed on 5 January 2024
The Indian general election of 2014 were held to constitute the 16th Lok Sabha in India. Voting took place in all 543 parliamentary constituencies of India to elect members of parliament in the Lok Sabha. The result of this election was declared on 16 May. The 15th Lok Sabha completed its constitutional mandate on 31 May 2014. Since the last general election in 2009,the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement by Anna Hazare,and other similar moves by Baba Ramdev,have gathered momentum and political interest. Issues such as Inflation,price rise and corruption were some of the chief issues.
Om Prakash Rawat is a retired 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre who served as 22nd Chief Election Commissioner of India. He has also served as one of the two Election Commissioners of India and the Public Enterprise Secretary of India.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) is a constitutional body established by the Constitution of India empowered to conduct free and fair elections in India. The Election commission is headed by a Chief Election Commissioner and consists of two other Election Commissioners.
2017 in India highlights the national/Daily level events during the year.
Sunil Arora was the 23rd Chief Election Commissioner of India. He is also the chairman for Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB). He is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Rajasthan cadre. He also served as a secretary to the Government of India in two ministries.
Ashok Lavasa is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Haryana cadre and was one of the two Election Commissioners of India. He has also served as the Finance Secretary of India,Environment,Forests and Climate Change Secretary of India and Civil Aviation Secretary of India. He served as the Vice President of Asian Development Bank (ADB) from August 2020 to August 2023.
Jamyang Tsering Namgyal is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from 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 2024 elections in India includes the general election and elections to the Rajya Sabha,to state legislative assemblies,to Panchayats and urban local bodies.
Events in the year 2022 in India.
Rajiv Kumar is a former Indian Administrative Service officer. On 15 May 2022,he assumed the charge as the 25th Chief Election Commissioner of India,succeeding Sushil Chandra.
Bharat Jodo Yatra was a mass movement which was held by the Indian National Congress. Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi orchestrated the movement by encouraging the party cadre and the public to walk from Kanyakumari at the southern tip of India to the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir,a journey of 4,080 kilometres over almost 150 days.
Rahul Gandhi,the leader of Indian National Congress,was disqualified as member of the Lower House of the Indian Parliament on 24 March 2023. The disqualifiaction followed a conviction by an Indian court,which sentenced Gandhi with two-year imprisonment,on the accusation of defaming prime minister Narendra Modi's surname. The conviction and defamation raised an alarm about the state of democracy in India and were seen as a move to silence dissent and political opposition before the upcoming 2024 general elections. In August 2023,the Supreme Court of India stayed his conviction. This would allow him to contest the next election. On 7 August a notification from Lok Sabha secretariat reinstated Rahul Gandhi to the parliament.
