Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament from Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a right-wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest serving prime minister from outside the Indian National Congress.
Keshubhai Patel was an Indian politician who was the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 1995 and from 1998 to 2001. He was a six-time member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly. He was a member of RSS since 1940s,of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1960s,Janata Party in 1970s,and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 1980. He subsequently left the BJP in 2012 and formed the Gujarat Parivartan Party. He was elected from Visavadar in the 2012 state assembly election but later resigned in 2014 due to ill health and merged his party with BJP. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan posthumously in 2021.
Shankersinh Laxmansinhji Vaghela is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Gujarat. He was the Leader of Opposition in 13th Gujarat Legislative Assembly.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is an Indian politician and was the Union Minister of Minority Affairs. He had served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from 2002 to 2022 and was Deputy Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha between 2021 and 2022.
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.
Aruvanpalli Puthiyapurakkal Abdullakkutty(born 8 May 1967) is an Indian politician. He was elected as the National Vice President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on 26 September 2020. He has also served as the BJP Vice President of Kerala state. He is also a former member of Lok Sabha from Kannur and ex-MLA from Kannur constituency of Kerala state.
Suresh Mehta is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Gujarat from 1995 to 1996.
Vijaybhai Ramniklalbhai Rupani is an Indian politician who served as the 16th Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2016 to 2021 for two terms. He is a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly,representing Rajkot West. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party.
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 are mostly dominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress.
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.
Amit Anil Chandra Shah is an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister of Home Affairs since 2019 and the first Minister of Co-operation of India since 2021. He served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020. He has also served as chairman of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) since 2014. He was elected to the lower house of Parliament,Lok Sabha,in the 2019 Indian general elections from Gandhinagar. Earlier,he had been elected as a member of the upper house of Parliament,Rajya Sabha,from Gujarat in 2017. A chief strategist of the BJP,he is a close aide to Narendra Modi.
Liladhar Vaghela was a Member of Parliament or Lok Sabha from Patan constituency in Gujarat,India.
The 2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of Gujarat in December 2012 for all 182 members of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly. Incumbent Chief Minister Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP),in power since 2002,was running for his fourth term. The leader of the opposition was Shaktisinh Gohil of the Indian National Congress (INC).
The 2002 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections were held in December 2002;they necessitated by the resignation of Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the dissolution of the legislative assembly in July 2002,8 months before its term was due to expire. Modi resigned due to widespread allegations that he had taken insufficient action to prevent the riots that took place a few months earlier. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party was led by Modi,with the Indian National Congress being the chief opposition.
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.
Maninagar is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Ahmedabad district and is one of the 7 assembly constituencies which make up Ahmedabad West Lok Sabha seat.
Kamlesh Patel is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Patel was member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 2002 from the Maninagar constituency in Eastern side of city Ahmedabad. He vacated his for Narendra Modi who reigned from the seat to become Chief Minister of Gujarat. Currently,he is Chairman of Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Limited.
Yatin Narendrabhai Oza is an Indian politician. Oza was twice Member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Sabarmati from 1995 to 2001 as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. He resigned from Bharatiya Janata Party and contested election against Narendra Modi from Maninagar as Indian National Congress where he lost. He returned to Bharatiya Janata Party in 2012. Later,he joined Aam Aadmi Party in presence of Arvind Kejriwal in New Delhi and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi promoting corruption in the country. Oza is a practising lawyer at Gujarat High Court. He was considered a mentor of Amit Shah who later became Home Minister in the Narendra Modi cabinet. He is a former designated senior advocate and serving President of Gujarat High court Bar Association since 14 consecutive terms. Gujarat High Court has recently stripped of his designation of Senior Advocate in contempt proceeding initiated after his controversial allegations of preferential treatment to senior advocates and law firms in case listing against the registry of the Gujarat High Court. However,his Senior Advocate's designation has been given back by the Supreme Court of India for 2 years from January 2022. [7]
This is a summary of the electoral history of Narendra Modi,who is the incumbent Prime Minister of India since 2014 and served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014. He currently represents Varanasi as a Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian parliament.
Gujarat Legislative Assembly or Gujarat Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Gujarat,in the state capital Gandhinagar. Presently,182 members of the Legislative Assembly are directly elected from single-member constituencies (seats). It has a term of 5 years unless it is dissolved sooner. 13 constituencies are reserved for scheduled castes and 27 constituencies for scheduled tribes. From its majority party group or by way of a grand coalition cabinet of its prominent members,the state's Executive namely the Government of Gujarat is formed.
