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.
Hansraj Ahir is an Indian politician and current Chairman of the National Commission for Backward classes. He is a former Union Minister of State for Home Affairs and Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers in the First Modi Ministry. He was the former member of the 16th Lok Sabha in India. He was member of 11th Lok Sabha,14th Lok Sabha,15th Lok Sabha. He is famous for exposing Coal Mining Scam specially pouni-3 in WCL.
Rajesh Verma is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha in 1999,the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004,the 16th Lok Sabha in 2014 and the 17th Lok Sabha in 2019 from Sitapur constituency in Uttar Pradesh state. In 2019 he won his fourth 4th election in Sitapur as a BJP candidate by 101,000 votes.
Ashok Kumar Rawat is an Indian politician from Sitapur District of Uttar Pradesh. He currently serves as a third term Member of Parliament(Lok Sabha) from Misrikh parliamentary seat of a Uttar Pradesh. In the recent 2019 Lok Sabha Elections,he won on a BJP ticket defeating his nearest BSP rival by a margin of just over 1 lakh votes. Earlier,he has contested and served two terms in the lower house as a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party. In 2019,he managed to retain his seat which he lost in 2014. Mr. Rawat with his exemplary performance was ranked 3rd in the number of questions asked in the 15th Lok Sabha as per PRS India Report.
Ramakant Yadav is an Indian politician belonging to the Samajwadi Party,from the Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh.
Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma is an Indian politician and Minister of State in Ministry of Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises in Government Of India. He stood for the 1996 Lok Sabha elections as BJP candidate and is currently a Member of Parliament from Jalaun. He belong to the Koli community of Uttar Pradesh.
Jagdambika Pal is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for 1 day in 1998. He is also currently a member of the Lok Sabha since 2009. In the 15th Lok Sabha he represented the Indian National Congress,until he resigned on 7 March 2014. Contextually,he joined the BJP in 2014 and re-entered the Lok Sabha.
Amethi is one of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. This constituency covers the entire Amethi district and was created in 1967. Its first member of parliament (MP) was Vidya Dhar Bajpai of the Indian National Congress (INC) who was elected in 1967 and held his seat in the next election in 1971. In the 1977 election,Ravindra Pratap Singh of the Janata Party became its MP. Singh was defeated in 1980 by Sanjay Gandhi of the INC. Later the same year,Gandhi died in a plane crash. This forced a by election in 1981 which was won by his brother,Rajiv Gandhi. Gandhi went on to represent this constituency until 1991,when he was assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The subsequent by election held the same year was won by Satish Sharma of the INC. Sharma was re-elected in 1996. Sanjaya Sinh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defeated Sharma in the 1998 election. The widow of Rajiv Gandhi,Sonia Gandhi represented this constituency from 1999 to 2004. Her son,Rahul Gandhi,was elected in 2004. He was the fourth MP from the Nehru–Gandhi family since 1980 to represent the seat. Gandhi held the seat till the 2019 election when he was defeated by a margin of 55,000 votes by the BJP's Smriti Irani.
Sanjaya Sinh,also known as Sanjay Singh,is an Indian politician and a former member of the Rajya Sabha. He was twice elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh during the 1980s and held state ministerial posts. In 1990,he became a member of the upper house of the Parliament of India,which is known as the Rajya Sabha,and in 1998 he was elected to the lower house,called the Lok Sabha. His term in the 12th Lok Sabha session lasted until the following year. Subsequently,in 2009,he was successful in obtaining a second term in that house as a member of the 15th Lok Sabha representing the Sultanpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh. He represented the state of Assam in the Rajya Sabha. He resigned from Rajya Sabha and Indian National Congress to join Bharatiya Janata Party on 30 July 2019.
Pradeep Kumar Jain Aditya,is an Indian politician from Indian National Congress (INC),who was Minister of State in Ministry of Rural Development in the 2009 Union Cabinet.
Chaudhary Birender Singh is a senior Indian political leader and a well-known face in Indian Politics. He lately served as Minister of Rural Development,Panchayati Raj,Sanitation &Drinking Water from 2014 to 2016 and later as the Union Minister of Steel from 2016 to 2019 in the Narendra Modi led NDA Government in India.
Sheela Gautam was an Indian billionaire politician and businesswoman. She was the founder and owner of Sheela Foam Limited,run by her son Rahul Gautam,which sells mattresses under the Sleepwell brand among others. A member of the Bharatiya Janta Party she served in the 10th,11th,12th &13th Lok Sabhas of India. She represented the Aligarh Lok Sabha constituency of Uttar Pradesh for 13 years in row from June 1991 to May 2004. She is the daughter of the famous freedom fighter Late Mohan Lal Gautam.
Thakur Jaivir Singh is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. He is elected from the Barauli constituency in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 2022. He registered the highest margin win of 92,000 votes among the rural constituencies in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. Thakur Jaivir Singh was a Cabinet minister in the Uttar Pradesh government in the year 2002 &again between 2007 and 2012 and represented Barauli seat.
Hukum Singh was an Indian politician who served as the Member of Parliament from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate. He was a member of the Panel of Chairpersons of the 16th Lok Sabha,and the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Water Resources.
Harinarayan Rajbhar was the Member of Parliament of India from Ghosi. He defeated Bahujan Samaj Party's Dara Singh Chauhan in the general election of 2014.
Vinod Kumar Sonkar is an Indian politician,a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Since 2014,he is the Member of parliament from Kaushambi Uttar Pradesh. He is the current chairperson of the Loksabha parliamentary committee on Ethics. He has also served as a National secretary of the party Bhartiya Janta Party.
Harish Dwivedi is an Indian politician and a member of 16th and 17th Lok Sabha from the Basti as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He is currently the National Secretary of Bharatiya Janta Party.
Virendra Singh Mast is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and has won the 2019 Indian general elections from the Ballia. He is national president of BJP kisan Morcha.
Arun Singh is an Indian politician and Chartered Accountant who is the current Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh from 5 December 2019. He has been a Bharatiya Janata Party National General Secretary and Head Quarter Incharge since 17 June 2015.
Ritesh Pandey is an Indian politician serving as the Member of Parliament from Ambedkar Nagar constituency. He was a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) from the state of Uttar Pradesh. Pandey resigned from Bahujan Samaj Party and joined Bharatiya Janata Party in February 2024. He was also a MLA from Jalalpur constituency in Ambedkar Nagar district,which he represented between June 2017 and May 2019 before elected as MP in. He was appointed the Leader of the BSP in the Lok Sabha in January 2020. Prior to this appointment,he served as the Deputy Leader. According to his election filing he has 30 crores as his assets.
