Politics of India works within the framework of the country's Constitution. India is a parliamentary secular democratic republic in which the president of India is the head of state &first citizen of India and the Prime Minister of India is the head of government. It is based on the federal structure of government,although the word is not used in the Constitution itself. India follows the dual polity system,i.e. federal in nature,that consists of the central authority at the centre and states at the periphery. The Constitution defines the organizational powers and limitations of both central and state governments;it is well recognised,fluid and considered supreme,i.e. the laws of the nation must conform to it.
Thalikkottai Rajuthevar Baalu,better known as T. R. Baalu,is an Indian politician. He is currently the MP of Lok Sabha of the Sriperumbudur constituency,elected five times since 1996 from Chennai South and Sriperumbudur. He is a leader of the DMK party and is known for his political loyalty,having been in the party since 1957. He is now the Treasurer of DMK,elected unopposed on 3 September 2020. He earlier served as the Principal Secretary of the DMK Party from August 2018 to January 2020.
Sidhi District is one of the tribal districts of Madhya Pradesh state of India. The town of Sidhi is the district headquarters. The district is part of Rewa Division.
K. Jana Krishnamurthi was an Indian political leader who rose to be the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2001. A former Union Law Minister and a member of the Parliament of India,Krishnamurthi was the second person from Tamil Nadu to head a national party in India after Kamaraj.
Murasoli Maran was an Indian politician and an important leader of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party which was headed by his maternal uncle and mentor,M. Karunanidhi. A Member of Parliament for 36 years,he was made a Union Minister in three separate central governments,in charge of Urban Development in the V.P. Singh government,Industry in the Gowda and Gujral governments,and finally Commerce and Industry under Vajpayee. Apart from being a politician,Maran was a journalist and scriptwriter for films too.
Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh is an Indian politician from the Allahabad Lok Sabha Constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He played a major role in the establishment of the Samajwadi Party with SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav,Beni Prasad Verma and Azam Khan.
Kantilal Bhuria is an Indian politician and a member of Indian National Congress and was till July 2011 the Minister of Tribal Affairs of the Republic of India. He had been promoted to the rank of cabinet minister in the United Progressive Alliance-2 government,led by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2009. Earlier,he was the Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Distribution. His successor,the new Minister of Tribal Affairs is V Kishore Chandra Deo,another Congressman.
Kurupam is a village in Parvathipuram Manyam district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Kotha Raghuramaiah (1912–1979) was a veteran Indian politician and barrister who served as the Union Cabinet minister of Defence,Civil Aviation,Petroleum &Chemicals,Tourism and Parliamentary Affairs. He is one of the longest-serving cabinet minister in the History of India. The Members of Parliament from the Lok sabha and Rajya Sabha participate in a friendly Cricket competition annually for the honor of lifting the Raghuramaiah Trophy named after him.
Kancherla Keshava Rao,popularly known as KK,is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress party. He is a member of the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Rao was first elected to Rajya Sabha in 2006,serving until 2012,and was re-elected in 2014 representing Andhra Pradesh. Despite being from Telangana he was assigned to Andhra Pradesh because of the lot method used to assign Rajya Sabha members for the newly created Telangana and residual Andhra Pradesh. In 2020,he was again re-elected for a six-year term representing Telangana.
Kanimozhi Karunanidhi is an Indian politician,poet and journalist. She is a Member of Parliament,representing Thoothukkudi constituency in the Lok Sabha. She was also a former MP who represented Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha. Kanimozhi is the daughter of the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M. Karunanidhi and his third wife Rajathi Ammal.
Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge is an Indian lawyer and politician serving as the President of the Indian National Congress since 2022,and Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha since 2021. He has been a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 2020.
Botcha Satyanarayana is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He belonged to the Indian National Congress until 2015 and he joined the YSR Congress on 7 June 2015. He is a former cabinet minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development in Andhra Pradesh.
Renuka Chowdhury is an Indian politician and a member of the Rajya Sabha representing Indian National Congress. she represented the political party in the Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh and currently in Telangana. She has also served as the Union minister of State for Ministry of Women and Child Development and Tourism in the Government of India.
Pandit Ram Kishore Shukla was an Indian politician and an activist for Indian independence.
Jagat Prakash "J.P." Nadda is an Indian lawyer and politician serving as the 11th national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2020 and the member of the Rajya Sabha representing Gujarat since 2024. A key decision maker of the BJP,he is a close aide to Narendra Modi. He was the BJP's working president from 2019 to 2020. Nadda also served as the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare,Government of India in the 1st Modi ministry from 2014 to 2019 and Parliamentary Board Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party.
Although a parliamentary democracy,Indian politics has increasingly become dynastic,possibly due to the absence of a party organization,independent civil society associations that mobilize support for the party,and centralized financing of elections. Family members have also led the Congress party for most of the period since 1978 when Indira Gandhi floated the then Congress(I) faction of the party. It also is fairly common in many political parties in Maharashtra. The dynastic phenomenon is seen from national level down to district level and even village level.The three-tier structure of Panchayati Raj established in the 1960s also helped to create and consolidate the dynastic phenomenon in rural areas. Apart from government,political families also control cooperative institutions,mainly cooperative sugar factories,district cooperative banks in the state,and since the 1980s private for profit colleges. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party also features several senior leaders who are dynasts. In Maharashtra,the NCP has particularly high level of dynasticism.
P.V. Midhun Reddy / Peddireddy Venkata Midhun Reddy is an Indian politician who is the current Member of Parliament in the 16th Lok Sabha and 17th Lok Sabha from Rajampet constituency. He acts as the panel speaker of Lok Sabha representing the YSR Congress Party and Lok Sabha floor leader.
Satya Prakash Malviya was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1984 and 1990 from Uttar Pradesh. He served as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals in Chandra Shekhar cabinet from 1990 to 1991.
Venumbaka Vijayasai Reddy is a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha;Parliamentary Party Leader for the YSR Congress Party;The National General Secretary of YSR Congress Party. He is a Chartered Accountant by profession. Until 2022,he was the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce. Currently,he is the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport,Tourism and Culture. He has been thrice nominated for the Panel of Vice-Chairpersons,Rajya Sabha and is a Member of the Business Advisory Committee,Rajya Sabha. He currently serves as the YSRCP Regional Coordinator for the districts of Joint Prakasam,Joint Nellore,Bapatla,and Narasa Raopet.
