Who was elected to represent Palghar Lok Sabha in the largest-ever election in the world?
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Palghar (Lok Sabha constituency) Palghar Lok Sabha constituency (Marathi: पालघर लोकसभा मतदारसंघ ) is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian parliament) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency was created on 19 February 2008 as a part of the implementation of the Presidential notification based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted on 12 July 2002. The seat is reserved for Scheduled Tribes. It first held elections in 2009 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Baliram Sukur Jadhav of Bahujan Vikas Aghadi. As of the 2014 election, Chintaman Vanaga of the Bharatiya Janata Party represents this constituency in the Lok Sabha.
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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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Nagendra Singh (politician) Nagendra Singh (born 2 March 1943) is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and has won the Indian general elections, 2014 from the Khajuraho (Lok Sabha constituency). he was also the minister of Government of Madhya Pradesh before becoming Member of Parliament.
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Takam Sanjoy Takam Sanjoy (born 15 May 1967) is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament belonging to the Indian National Congress. In the 2009 general election he was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from the Arunachal West constituency of Arunachal Pradesh.
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Samar Mukherjee Samar Mukherjee (Bengali: সমর মুখোপাধ্যায় ; 7 November 1913 – 18 July 2013) was an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) who served as member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India for the Howrah constituency for three consecutive terms from 1971 to 1984, and as a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1986 till 1993. A lifelong bachelor, he made a multidimensional contribution as Party organizer, as writer, as trade unionist and as a Parliamentarian. He was a member of the Polit Bureau from 1978 to 1992, member of the Central Committee since 1966, and the eldest party member during his death in 2013. He also served as the General Secretary of the CITU from 1983 to 1991.
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Alok Sanjar Alok Sanjar (born 4 April 1963) is a member of Indian parliament from Bharatiya Janata Party and has won the Indian general elections, 2014 from the Bhopal (Lok Sabha constituency) under modi government.
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Somjibhai Damor Somjibhai Damor (born 20 June 1940) is an Indian Adivasi politician from Gujarat. He was elected to the 6th Lok Sabha in 1977 from Dohad constituency as an Indian National Congress candidate. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from the same constituency in 1980, 1984, 1989, 1991, 1996, and 1998. In the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, he was defeated by Babubhai Khimabhai Katara of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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Parbhubhai Vasava Vasava Parbhubhai Nagarbhai is an Indian politician and a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Bardoli (Lok Sabha constituency), Gujarat. He won the Indian general election, 2014 being a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate.
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Prasanta Pradhan Prasanta Pradhan (born 14 December 1939) is an Indian politician for the Contai (Lok Sabha constituency) in West Bengal.
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Palas Barman Palas Barman (1 January 1929 – 10 June 2000), an Indian politician belonging to the Revolutionary Socialist Party. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Balurghat West Bengal in 1977, 1980, 1984, 1989 and 1991. Barman died on 10 June 2000.
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Gurudas Dasgupta Gurudas Dasgupta (Bengali: গুরুদাস দাসগুপ্ত ) (born 1936) is an Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India. He became a member of the Rajya Sabha in 1985. He was elected the General Secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) in 2001. In 2004, He was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha from Panskura in West Bengal. In 2009, He was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Ghatal in West Bengal. He is a member of JPC on 2G spectrum scam and accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of "dereliction of duty", alleging that he (the PM) was fully aware of irregularities in dispensing of telecom licences. He cited a note from then Cabinet Secretary, stating the value of licences of spectrum should be increased.
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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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Indian general election, 1999 General Elections were held in India from 5 September to 3 October 1999, a few months after the Kargil War. The 13th Lok Sabha election is of historical importance as it was the first time a united front of parties managed to attain a majority and form a government that lasted a full term of five years, thus ending a period of political instability at the national level that had been characterised by three general elections held in as many years.
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Nityananda Pradhan Nityananda Pradhan (born 18 November 1944) is an Indian politician. He was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha, representing Aska (Lok Sabha constituency).
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Ramesh Chand Tomar Ramesh Chand Tomar (born 15 July 1948) is an Indian politician. He was member of 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th Lok Sabha, as BJP representative from Hapur seat of Uttar Pradesh.
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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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Manoj Tigga Manoj Tigga is a Member of Legislative assembly from Madarihat constituency in West Bengal. In the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2016, Tigga of BJP defeated his nearest rival Padam Lama of All India Trinamool Congress by 22,308.
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West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2011 A legislative assembly election was held in six phases between 18 April and 10 May 2011 for all the 294 seats of the "Vidhan Sabha" in the state of West Bengal in India. The Trinamool Congress won an absolute majority of seats. Notably, incumbent Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee lost his Jadavpur seat to Trinamool's Manish Gupta by just under 17,000 votes.
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Anurag Kejriwal Anurag Kejriwal is an Indian politician, and the former president of the Delhi branch of India's Lok Satta Party.
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P. Chidambaram Palaniappan Chidambaram (born 16 September 1945) is an Indian politician and attorney who currently serves as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha and formerly served as Union Minister of Finance of India. Chidambaram is a corporate lawyer and an important member of the last Congress-led government. He has been the Finance Minister since May 2004, except for a three and a half year stint – beginning November 2008 – as Home Minister, in the wake of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Chidambaram returned as Finance Minister in July 2012, succeeding Pranab Mukherjee, who demitted office to become the President of India.
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Premalakaki Chavan Premalabai Chavan (2 July 1918 – 8 July 2003) was an Indian politician and was a member of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. The Founder-President of the All India Women's Cricket Association, she was involved in various other activities that contributed to the welfare of women in Indian society. Premalakaki Chavan is notable for holding the record for the most number of representations (four) in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, by a female M.P. from Maharashtra.
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1957 elections in India The Election Commission of India held the second presidential elections of India on May 6, 1957. Dr. Rajendra Prasad won his re-election with 459,698 votes over his nearest rival Chowdhry Hari Ram.