What election did Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli win to constitute the 16th Lok Sabha, electing members of parliament for all 543 parliamentary constituencies of India?
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Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli is an Indian politician and a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Tirupati (Lok Sabha constituency), Andhra Pradesh. He won the Indian general election, 2014 being a Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party candidate.
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Indian general election, 2014 The Indian general election of 2014 was held to constitute the 16th Lok Sabha, electing members of parliament for all 543 parliamentary constituencies of India. Running in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014, it was the longest election in the country's history. According to the Election Commission of India, 814.5 million people were eligible to vote, with an increase of 100 million voters since the last general election in 2009, making it the largest-ever election in the world. Around 23.1 million or 2.7% of the total eligible voters were aged 18–19 years. A total of 8,251 candidates contested for the 543 Lok Sabha seats. The average election turnout over all nine phases was around 66.38%, the highest ever in the history of Indian general elections.
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List of Rajya Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh The Rajya Sabha (meaning the "Council of States") is the upper house of the Parliament of India. Andhra Pradesh elects 11 seats and they are indirectly elected by the state legislators of Andhra Pradesh. Before formation of Telangana State in 2014 were 7 seats are alloted, 18 seats were elected from Andhra Pradesh. The number of seats, allocated to the party, are determined by the amount of seats, a party possesses during nomination and the party nominates a member to be voted on. Elections in within the state legislatures are held using Single transferable vote with proportional representation.
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Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 1999 The Karnataka Legislative Assembly election of 1999 took place in October 1999 in 224 constituencies in Karnataka, India. The elections were conducted to elect the government in the state of Karnataka for the next five years. The Indian National Congress secured a huge majority winning 132 seats. The National Democratic Alliance composed of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal (United) faction was a distant second winning only 63 seats. The Janata Dal (Secular) faction of former prime minister Deve Gowda also bit dust winning only 10 seats. The election was held simultaneously with the Lok sabha elections. The Janata Dal government collapsed in mid-1999 owing to a split in the Janata Dal. The Chief minister J.H.Patel and many other prominent leaders joined the Janata dal (United) faction and along with Ramakrishna Hegde allied with the Bharatiya Janata Party where as the former prime minister Deve gowda and his associates including the deputy chief minister Siddaramaiah joined the Janata dal (secular) faction. Owing to the anti incumbency against both the factions of JD, the Congress won handsomely. S.M. Krishna of the Congress was sworn in as Chief minister on 11 October 1999.
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Indian general election, 1977 (Tamil Nadu) The Indian general election, 1977 polls in Tamil Nadu were held for 39 seats in the state. The result was a big victory for Indian National Congress under Indira Gandhi and its allies Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Communist Party of India winning 34 seats, while Janata Party and its allies Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Indian National Congress (Organisation) won only 5 seats. The Janata Party ended up winning this election. After the election, the ADK ended up supporting the Janata Party under Morarji Desai. In 1979, ADK continued to support Janata Party, by supporting Charan Singh, which resulted in the appointment of two ADK cabinet members.
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Pathanamthitta (Lok Sabha constituency) Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 20 Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is a newly formed constituency in the Central Travancore region of Kerala for the election of a member of the Lok Sabha. The district, which was previously fragmented into different parliamentary constituencies, was unified into a single Parliamentary constituency as per the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008.
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Warangal (Lok Sabha constituency) Warangal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 17 Lok Sabha (Lower House of the Parliament) constituencies in Telangana state in southern India. This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes
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Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, 2006 The thirteenth legislative assembly election, of Tamil Nadu was held on May 8, 2006. It was held for all 234 constituencies to elect the government in the state of for the following five years. The votes were counted three days later on May 11, 2006 and all the results were out by the end of the day. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led (DMK) front won the elections and its leader, M Karunanidhi was sworn in as Chief Minister. He served his fifth term. Since no single party could gain a majority of its own in this election, DMK formed a minority government with its allies, which is the first in the state since the 1952 election. 13th Assembly was instituted due to this election.
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Mumbai South Central (Lok Sabha constituency) Mumbai South Central Lok Sabha constituency (Marathi: मुंबई दक्षिण मध्य लोकसभा मतदारसंघ ) (formerly, Bombay South Central Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Maharashtra state in western India.
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Indian Rajya Sabha elections, 2013 Rajya Sabha elections were held on various dates in 2013, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held in May, and June to elect respectively 2 members from Assam , and 6 members from Tamil Nadu for the Rajya Sabha. .
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Berhampur (Lok Sabha constituency) Berhampur is a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency in Odisha. Assembly constituencies which constitute this parliamentary constituency are: Chatrapur, Gopalpur, Berhampur, Chikati, Digapahandi, Mohona and Parlakhemundi.
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Venkatesh Nayak A. Venkatesh Naik (6 June 1936 – 24 August 2015) was an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party, with whom he had been a member for nearly 50 years. He was elected to the 10th Lok Sabha in 1991 from Raichur constituency in Karnataka. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998, 1999 and 2004 from the same constituency. He secured a seat in the Karnataka legislative assembly elections of 2013 from Devdurga constituency. On 24 August 2015, Nayak was among 5 killed in a train accident in Andhra Pradesh.
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Malappuram (Lok Sabha constituency) Malappuram Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 20 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in the Kerala state in southern India. It was made by renaming the erstwhile Manjeri Lok Sabha constituency.
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Baramati (Lok Sabha constituency) Baramati Lok Sabha constituency (Marathi: बारामती लोकसभा मतदारसंघ ) is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Maharashtra state in western India.
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Indian Rajya Sabha elections, 2011 Rajya Sabha elections were held on various dates in 2011, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held on 22 July to elect respectively 1 member from Goa, 3 members from Gujarat and 6 members from West Bengal for the Council of States, the Rajya Sabha.
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R. Velu Rangasamy Velu (born 26 July 1940), is an Indian politician of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) party. He has been elected to 14th Lok Sabha as Union Minister of State, Railways from Arakkonam Lok Sabha constituency of Tamil Nadu from 2004 to 2009. He started his political career as Officer of Indian Administrative Service and worked as Additional Registrar, Cooperative Societies; also served as member, Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission. He also worked as District Collector; Director of Municipal Administration and Joint Commissioner, Revenue Administration. He was educated in the Madras Christian College and was a resident of Bishop Heber Hall.
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Mumbai South (Lok Sabha constituency) Mumbai South Lok Sabha constituency (Marathi: मुंबई दक्षिण लोकसभा मतदारसंघ ) (formerly, Bombay South Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.
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Modi ministry The Modi Ministry is the Council of Ministers headed by Narendra Modi that was formed after the 2014 general election which was held in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May in 2014. The results of the election were announced on 16 May 2014 and this led to the formation of the 16th Lok Sabha. The Council assumed office on 26 May 2014.
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Rangarajan Kumaramangalam Phanindranath Rangarajan Kumaramangalam (12 May 1952 – 23 August 2000) was a prominent politician of the Indian National Congress and later the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of parliament, Lok Sabha from the Salem constituency from 1984 to 1996 and Tiruchirapalli constituency from 1998 to 2000. He served as the Minister of State for Law, Justice and Company Affairs in the P. V. Narasimha Rao government from July 1991 to December 1993 and as the Union Minister for Power in the Vajpayee Government from 1998 to 2000. He was the grandson of former Chief Minister of Madras, P. Subbarayan and the nephew of former Indian Chief of Army, General P. P. Kumaramangalam.
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Satara (Lok Sabha constituency) Satara Lok Sabha constituency (Marathi: सातारा लोकसभा मतदारसंघ ) is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Maharashtra state in western India.
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Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency) Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency) (Bengali: বারাসাত লোকসভা কেন্দ্র ) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Barasat in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 17 Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency) are in North 24 Parganas district.
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Indian Rajya Sabha elections, 1967 Rajya Sabha elections were held on various dates in 1967, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber.