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Ravindra Kumar Ray Ravindra Kumar Rai is an Indian politician and a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Kodarma (Lok Sabha constituency), Jharkhand. He won the Indian general election, 2014 as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. He was earlier a member of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. He was elected from Dhanwar in Giridih District as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was also MoS for Mines and Minerals and Geology Department in first government of Babulal Marandi in Jharkhand. Later in the government of Arjun Munda, he became Cabinet Minister of Industry and Labor.
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Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (] ; translation: Indian People's Party; BJP) is one of the two major political parties in India, along with the Indian National Congress. s of 2016 , it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament and state assemblies, and it is the world's largest party in terms of primary membership. The BJP is a right-wing party, with close ideological and organisational links to the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
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Harish Chandra Durgapal Harish Chandra Durgapal(Hindi: हरीश चंद्र दुर्गापाल) is a political leader in Uttarakhand, India. He is currently a minister of Labour, Employment, Small Scale Industries, Khadi & Village Industries and Dairy Development in the current Indian National Congress Government. He was elected MLA from Lalkuan, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India in the 2012 Assembly election as an independent candidate.
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Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election, 2012 The Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election, 2012 were the third Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) election of the state. Elections were held on 30 January 2012 when Indian National Congress emerged as the largest party with 32 seats in the 70-seat legislature and formed the government with the help of Bahujan Samaj Party, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P) and Independents. The Bharatiya Janata Party with 31 seats served as the official opposition.
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Jagannath Prasad Jagannath Prasad was an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress.He was elected to the Lok Sabha the lower house of Indian Parliament from Mohanlalganj in Uttar Pradesh in 1984.
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Supriya Sule Supriya Sharad Pawar Sadanand Bhalchandra Sule is an Indian politician from the Nationalist Congress Party and currently a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 16th Lok Sabha (India's house of elected representatives). She is the daughter of the President of the Nationalist Congress Party, Sharad Pawar. In 2009, she contested the elections for the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency and won. This constituency was previously represented by her father. She was a Member of Parliament, representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha.
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P. L. Punia Panna Lal Punia, usually known as P. L. Punia, is an Indian politician and Member of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh since 2014. He was member of the Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014 and represented Barabanki (Lok Sabha constituency). He is a Dalit leader of the Indian National Congress party. He was also chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes between 2013-16 and as such sat "ex officio" on the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
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Radha Mohan Singh Radha Mohan Singh (born 1 September 1949) is an Indian politician having affiliations with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Singh was president of BJP's Bihar State unit from 2006 to 2009. He was elected to 11th Lok Sabha, 13th Lok Sabha (1999-2004), 15th Lok Sabha and currently a member of the 16th Lok Sabha (2014-2019), the lower house of the Parliament of India. He represents Purvi Champaran constituency in Bihar state. He is a Rajput and hails from Champaran. He was inducted in Narendra Modi led central government as a cabinet minister and currently holds the portfolio of Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, India.
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List of National Democratic Alliance members The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is a centre-right political alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). s of 2015 , it is the ruling coalition in the Parliament of India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and rules over 13 state governments. The NDA was formed by the BJP in the 1998 general elections; it consisted of its existing allies like the Samata Party, the Shiromani Akali Dal, the Shiv Sena in addition to the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Biju Janata Dal. Among these regional parties, the Shiv Sena was the only one which had an ideology similar to that of the BJP. The coalition first came to power at the Central Government after the 1998 general elections, and continued to rule till 2004.
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Brahmadev Anand Paswan Brahmadev Anand Paswan is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha (upper house of the parliament of India) on 28 May 1993, from the Bihar Legislative Assembly constituency. He represented the Janata Dal at the time. According to one narrative, it was Paswan's poetry that attracted the attention of the Janata Dal chief Laloo Prasad Yadav and enabled his election to the Rajya Sabha. His tenure in the Rajya Sabha lasted from 1 June 1993 to 2 April 1994.
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Ashok Kumar (Indian politician) Dr. Ashok Kumar (Hindi: अशोक कुमार , born 8 December 1948) is an Indian politician. His political party is the Indian National Congress. He is a Member of Legislative Assembly where he represents Singhia constituency, he has represented the constituency for five terms. Dr. Kumar has an MBBS from Patna Medical College and Hospital.
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Indian general election, 2014 (Gujarat) In the Indian general election, 2014 for Gujarat were held for 26 seats in the state.The major two contenders in the state were Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (INC). BJP won all 26 seats.
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Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly The Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly also known as the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha, (Hindi: उत्तराखण्ड विधानसभा ) is a unicameral governing and law making body of Uttarakhand, one of the 29 States in India, and is situated at Dehradun, the interim state capital of Uttarakhand, with 71 Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA).
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Mahendra Singh Patel Mahendra Singh Patel (Hindi: महेंद्र सिंह पटेल ) is an Indian politician, who was a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Rohaniya constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party political party.
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Mukul Roy Mukul Roy (Bengali: মুকুল রায় ; born 17 April 1954) was the Railway Minister of India. He is an Indian politician and a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, representing West Bengal. He also serves as the National Vice-President of his party, the All India Trinamool Congress. After Mamata Banerjee resigned as the Railway Minister she was to become the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Roy was handed additional charge of the Railway Ministry after Mamata didi expressed her desire that her party retain the Railway Ministry and personally recommended Mr. Roy to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He served as a Minister of State in the Railway Ministry with Manmohan Singh serving as the Cabinet Minister (pro tem) till 11 July 2011. Mukul Roy's Railway ministry will run a special train called "DU Gyan Uday Express" a Bengali worded statement, which will take 1000 students of Delhi University to places like Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Goa and Bangalore during the summer break of 2012. He has resigned from Trinamool Congress on 25th September, 2017. An application has been submitted to the Election Commission for the formation of the new political party called Nationalist Trinamool Congress Party and Mukul aide Amitabha Majumdar has been named as the President. The head office of the party is located in Dinhata, in North Bengal.
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Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, 2016 A Legislative Assembly election was held on 16 May 2016 for the 232 seats (except Thanjavur and Aravakurichi) of the Legislative Assembly in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. AIADMK under J. Jayalalithaa won the elections and became the first ruling party to be re-elected in Tamil Nadu since 1984, though with a reduced majority. DMK won half of the seats it contested but its allies performed poorly; notably, the Indian National Congress won 16% of the seats they contested and the alliance lost due to its poor performance. The votes were counted on 19 May 2016. In the previous election in 2011, AIADMK, under the leadership of Jayalalithaa, won a simple majority and formed the government, while DMDK chief Vijayakanth served as the Leader of Opposition until January 2016.
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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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Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is the third largest national political party in India. It was formed mainly to represent Bahujans (literally meaning "People in majority"), referring to people from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes (OBC), as well as religious minorities that together consist of 85 percent of India's population but still divided into 6000 different castes.
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Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election, 2009 The Jharkhand 2009 Assembly Elections were seen as a contest between three forces: The Indian National Congress (INC), The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and its major ally Janata Dal (United), and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). The poll result was a shock for the incumbent BJP-JD{U} Alliance as they could muster only a quarter of the state assembly's 81 seats. . The JMM emerged as a formidable force and finally turned out to be the kingmaker. The election turned out to be a stalemate as many expected because no major party or group was able to come even close of the 42-seat majority.
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Janata Party (Secular) The Janata Party (Secular) (Hindi: ) was an Indian political party founded by Raj Narain in July, 1979. On 16 July 1979 Charan Singh assumed its leadership and became the Prime Minister of India on 28 July 1979 with the support of the Indian National Congress (O) but resigned on 20 August 1979 after their withdrawal of support. The Janata Party led by Charan Singh was later renamed as Lok Dal before the Indian general election, 1980 but officially contested in the elections under its previous name. In the elections for the 7th Lok Sabha in 1980, the party won 41 seats and received 9.39% of the total votes polled.
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List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh The Rajya Sabha (meaning the "Council of States") is the upper house of the Parliament of India. Uttar Pradesh state elects 30 members and they are indirectly elected by the state legislators of Uttar Pradesh. Members are elected for six years and 1/3 of members are retired after every two years. 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 within the state legislatures are held using Single transferable vote with proportional representation.
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Utkarsh Verma Utkarsh Verma (Hindi: उत्कर्ष वर्मा ) is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly in India. He represents the Lakhimpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party political party. He won his first Assembly election at the age of just 25, and became 2010 India's youngest MLA.