In 8 other states, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim and Tamil Nadu (Although, BJP has not a single seat in Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly) it shares power as Junior Partner with other political parties of the NDA coalition. The BJP has previously been the sole party in power in Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Rajasthan. It has also ruled Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Punjab and Puducherry as part of coalition governments. The BJP has never been in power in 3 states-Kerala, Telangana (between 1999 and 2004 BJP in alliance with TDP ruled a United Andhra Pradesh) and West Bengal.
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Bharatiya Janata Party | Seats in State Legislative
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who is the leader of ruling party in india
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Narendra Modi
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which political party does he currently belong to?
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
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when was this party established?
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1980
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mention a few of their social policies.
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It is committed to Hindutva, an ideology articulated by Indian independence activist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
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what are some of their economic policies?
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Introduced significant deregulation and privatisation of government owned enterprises. It also introduced tariff-reducing measures. These reforms built off of the initial economic liberalisation
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what are some of the steps this party has taken to safeguard the country from terrorism?
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NDA government carried out nuclear weapons tests, and enacted the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which later came under heavy criticism. It also deployed troops to evict infiltrators from Kargil, and supported the United States' War on Terror.
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what are some of the designated posts in this party?
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A number of other criminal politicians mentioned in the press, such as the new bandit queen Seema Parihar, wife of the slain dacoit Nirbhay Gujjar, do not appear on the candidate lists, and may have been removed due to irregularities in their nomination papers or otherwise.
2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election | Apna Dal/Bharatiya Janata Party
Radadiya won Lok Sabha seat for Congress in 2009, but gave up the seat after he became MLA for Congress from Dhoraji after 2012 assembly elections. He resigned from Congress immediately after those elections and contested Lok Sabha by-poll of 2013 on BJP ticket and won.
Vitthal Radadiya | Posts held
In 1986, the district magistrate of Ayodhya ordered that the gates be opened once more, and Hindus be allowed access to the shrine. Following its poor performance in the 1984 parliamentary election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shifted toward a policy of more hardline Hindu nationalism, and lent its support to the demand that a temple be built at Ayodhya. On the strength of this agitation, the BJP won 86 Lok Sabha seats in 1989, a tally which made its support crucial to the National Front government. In August 1990, then-Prime Minister V. P. Singh, acting on the recommendations of the Mandal Commission, decided to introduce a policy of reserving twenty-seven per cent of state level government posts for people from lower castes.
Ram Rath Yatra | Background and motivation
When the Bharatiya Janata Party was formed in 1980, he was appointed as a Secretary and in charge of Gujarat, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh. Remained on this post until 1984. Throughout the years, he held offices as a national General Secretary, Vice-President or "in-charge" of a particular state.
Kushabhau Thakre | Established politician (1980-2000)
Before being elected as Member of Legislative assembly of Uttar Pradesh Virendra Kuma Yadav has held various political posts in Ghazipur district.
Virendra Kumar Yadav | Posts held
Compared to the Congress, the BJP takes a more aggressive and nationalistic position on defence policy and terrorism. The Vajpayee-led NDA government carried out nuclear weapons tests, and enacted the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which later came under heavy criticism. It also deployed troops to evict infiltrators from Kargil, and supported the United States' War on Terror. Although previous Congress governments developed the capability for a nuclear weapons test, the Vajpayee government broke with India's historical strategy of avoiding it and authorised Pokhran-II, a series of five nuclear tests in 1998. The tests came soon after Pakistan tested a medium-range ballistic missile.
Bharatiya Janata Party | Defence and counterterrorism
In 1980, Janata Party disintegrated fully. The old Jan Sangh again reunited as the Bharatiya Janata Party in Mumbai with the lotus as its symbol. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was chosen as the National President and Nanasaheb was chosen as the President of Maharashtra BJP. In the same year, Nanasaheb declared his retirement from active electoral politics and vowed to work for the party only. In 1984, he handed over the presidency to the young Gopinath Munde and declared that in future neither would he contest elections nor would he hold party positions. He will be just 'a party worker' henceforth.
Uttamrao Patil | Retirement from electoral politics (1980-1989)
^ by poll. Vitthalbhai Radadiya won Lok Sabha seat for Congress in 2009, but gave up the seat after he became MLA for Congress from Dhoraji after 2012 assembly elections. But he resigned from Congress immediately after those elections. And contested Lok Sabha by-poll of 2013 on BJP ticket and won. Dhoraji assembly by-poll in 2013 was won by BJP's Pravin Mankadia.
Porbandar (Lok Sabha constituency) | Members of Parliament
He occupied a number of post both in the Central Government as well as Union Territories of Delhi, Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. He rose to the highest levels becoming Additional Secretary and Secretary to the Government of India. These top level appointments were made during the Prime Ministership under the NDA Government headed by Prime Minister Vajpayee of the BJP.
Navin Chawla | Earlier posts
He later rejoined the Bharatiya Janata Party after being denied the post of state president by the Janata Dal (Secular) in the same year. In 2015, he was expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party for 6 years for not withdrawing his nomination as an independent candidate for the twin constituencies of the Bijapur Local Authorities constituency of the Karnataka Legislative Council. He won the election alongside S. R. Patil of the Indian National Congress.
Basangouda Patil Yatnal | Political career
A Governor can nominate up to the 1/12 members of the total number of members in a State Legislative councils, the upper house of the state lagislature in 6 states, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh. These members are experts in the field of art, science, literature and social service.
Reserved political positions in India | Governor's nominees to the State Legislative Councils
According to the Constitution of India, at the state-level, the governor is "de jure" head, but "de facto" executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the state legislative assembly, the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given he/she has the assembly's confidence, the chief minister's term is usually for a maximum of five years; there are no limits to the number of terms he/she can serve. Of the 43 BJP chief ministers, twelve are incumbent — Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh, Sarbananda Sonowal in Assam, Pramod Sawant in Goa, Vijay Rupani in Gujarat, Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana, Jai Ram Thakur in Himachal Pradesh, B.
List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party | Introduction
The National Office Bearers of Bharatiya Janata Party is To See the overall strategic direction of the party and policy development. It is composed of members appointed by the BJP president
National Office Bearers of the Bharatiya Janata Party | Introduction
Jagdish Shettar was elected as the leader of BJP's legislative party and Leader of opposition in Karnataka Legislative Assembly.
Jagadish Shettar | Post Elections
During 2014 General elections he was appointed Star campaigner of BJP in U.P. In 2016 he was given responsibility of General Secretary of BJP UP, he is serving the party for second consecutive term. He has been appointed as Transport Minister of State (Independent Charge) & Parliamentary Affairs Minister of State in Yogi Adityanath ministry on 21 August 2019.
Ashok Katariya | Political career
Party's vice-president Smriti Irani was fielded from high-profile constituency of Amethi. Nomination of BJP candidate S. Gurumurthy was rejected from Niligiris for failing to submit mandatory forms during his nomination.
Bharatiya Janata Party campaign for the 2014 Indian general election | Parliamentary candidates
In 8 other states, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim and Tamil Nadu (Although, BJP has not a single seat in Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly) it shares power as Junior Partner with other political parties of the NDA coalition. The BJP has previously been the sole party in power in Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Rajasthan. It has also ruled Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Punjab and Puducherry as part of coalition governments. The BJP has never been in power in 3 states-Kerala, Telangana (between 1999 and 2004 BJP in alliance with TDP ruled a United Andhra Pradesh) and West Bengal.
Bharatiya Janata Party | Seats in State Legislative
A total of 2,586 candidates filled their nomination for 230 seats spread across 51 districts. Prominent BJP candidates included former CM Babulal Gaur (Govindpura constituency in Bhopal), Gopal Bhargava (Rehli in Sagar), Kailash Vijayvargiya (Mhow in Indore) and former PM, Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s nephew Anoop Mishra (Bhitarvar in Gwalior). Prominent Congress candidates included former Union Minister Suresh Pachouri (Bhojpur), leader of the opposition in the assembly Ajay Singh (Churhat), Digvijaya Singh’s son Jaivardhan Singh (Raghogarh), and Sachin Yadav, son of former Deputy CM, Subhash Yadav (Kasravad).
2013 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election | List of declared candidates
The BJP's Bengali booklet released in January 2020 claimed that the National Register of Citizens will be implemented to identify the undocumented migrants, but Hindus, Sikhs and other non-Muslims will be "shielded" by the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal | Post 2020
During 2005–07, he was appointed as the National Vice President of Bharathiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha (BJYM), under the President ship of Sri. Dharmendra Pradhan (presently, the Hon. Minister for Petroleum and Skill Development). In 2008, he contested the Assembly elections form Belagavi Dakshin and won with a comfortable lead of 12990 votes. During his term as the MLA, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly's Estimate Committee for two separate terms during 2008-09 and 2012–13, by the Speaker of the Assembly. In 2013, he lost a third consecutive term as an MLA due to the split in the BJP party and lost the election with a narrow margin.
Abhay Patil | Politics
1993-1996 Executive Secretary, BJP (Parliamentary Affairs) 1996-1998 Member of National Shipping Board 1996-1998 Vice President, Gujarat Pradesh BJP Mahila Morcha 1996-1998 Vice President, All India BJP Mahila Morcha 1998 Whip, BJP Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha 1998 Executive Committee Member, BJP Parliamentary Party 2000 Vice President, All India BJP 1991-2004 Member of Parliament 2003-2004 Minister of State of Tourism & Culture and Parliamentary Affairs
Bhavna Chikhalia | Important political positions
Venkaiah Naidu, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Ananth Kumar, Thawar Chand Gehlot, Ram Lal, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar. Further sub-committees were made headed by senior party leaders. In September 2013, BJP announced Modi as their prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. A fortnight after he was anointed as BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi on Sunday relinquished the post of election campaign committee chief to which party president Rajnath Singh was appointed.
Bharatiya Janata Party campaign for the 2014 Indian general election | Leadership
In order to oversee the efforts of party for 2018 assemble election, he was made in-charge of Ujjain division too. In 2014, Congress President Sonia Gandhi gave him the charge of Chhattisgarh. During 2020 Madhya Pradesh political crisis, he supported Jyotiraditya Scindia and was one of the 22 MLAs who resigned. Thereafter, he joined Bharatiya Janata party. He took oath as a Cabinet Minister on July 14, 2020 and was assigned the responsibility of Industry Policy and Investment Promotion.
Rajvardhan Singh Dattigaon | Political career
He served BJP Gorkhpur District President on 1984 to 1989. And he also served General Secretary of Bhartiya Janta Party Uttar Pradesh from 1995 to 2007 period. After that, in 2007, he held the position of Uttar PradeshBJP President from 2007 to 2010. In period 2010 to 2012 he held the position of BJP Co charge of Maharastra State. After that in 2012 to 2014 he held the position of BJP in charge of Jharkhand state. And from 2014 to till date he is a member of BJP up election management. And he also seventeenth Lok Sabha Member of Parliament in the 2019 elections, he has been elected from the Deoria seat of Uttar Pradesh.
Ramapati Ram Tripathi | Political career
After tendering his resignation as Cabinet Minister, Handique was appointed chairman of the newly constituted parliamentary Standing Committee for Welfare of Other Backward Classes. After 2012, he was a member of the Indian National Congress’ Central Election Committee. The 14-member panel, chaired by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is entrusted with the task of selecting party candidates for state and national elections.
Bijoy Krishna Handique | Post-Cabinet Minister activities
candidate. He was appointed as co-operation and parliamentary affairs minister in Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan's ministry. There are tussles seen for control over Indapur between Nationalist Congress Party and Indian National Congress under his leadership.
Harshvardhan Patil | Introduction
As of March 2020, the BJP holds a majority of Legislative Assembly in 12 states - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. In Haryana, BJP shares power as the senior partner (Chief Minister of BJP) with Jannayak Janta Party.
Bharatiya Janata Party | Presence in States and UTs
Pawan Bansal (Cabinet Minister), Sh. Shriprakash Jaiswal (Minister of State), Sh. Bhupinder Singh Hooda (Chief Minister of Haryana), Sh. Santosh Bagrodia (Minister of State), Sh. Deepender Singh Hooda (Member of Parliament), Sh. Naveen Jindal (Member of Parliament), Sh. Ajay Gupta and many other VIPs at Balyogi Hall, Parliament of India, New Delhi.
Nirmala Deshpande | Honors
Although the BJP did very poorly in the elections, failing to win a single seat in parliament, it won two of the three state assembly seats in the Kandhmal district. Pradhan won the G Udaygiri seat, defeating the sitting Member of the Legislative Assembly Ajayanti Pradhan of the Indian National Congress by 20,000 votes. Pradhan became a Member of the Legislative Assembly, but could not attend the oath-taking ceremony since his bail application was rejected by a court in Phulbani. Eventually the high court granted him bail and he was able to take the oath a few days late.
Manoj Pradhan | 2009 elections
Haren Pandya represented the Ellis Bridge constituency of Ahmedabad City as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator. He was a member of the RSS from his early age and was also a Municipal Councillor from the Paldi Area of Ahmedabad City. Pandya was a strong supporter of Keshubhai Patel, and in 1998, after the BJP came to power in Gujarat with Keshubhai as Chief Minister, Pandya was made Home Minister. He was appointed as Minister of State for revenue after Narendra Modi took over as the Chief Minister; however, he resigned from the post in August 2002. Fearing that he would be denied a ticket for the 2002 assembly elections, he withdrew from the electoral fray.
Haren Pandya | Political career
Both Charan Singh and Jagjivan Ram were accorded the title of deputy prime minister. Charan Singh became the Minister of Home Affairs, the second-most important position in the Council of Ministers, while Jagjivan Ram took charge of the Ministry of Defence. BJS leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani were respectively given charge of the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Raj Narain was appointed Minister of Health, Madhu Dandavate was to head the Ministry of Railways and trade unionist George Fernandes was made the Minister of Communications. Jurist Shanti Bhushan was appointed Minister of Law and Justice.
Janata Party | Government formation
Pranjal faced controversies over not allowing the prime ministerial candidate to hold a public rally. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate in Varanasi, Narendra Modi, has been a favorite of the locals despite not allowing the rally to be held in the sensitive Benia Bagh ground in 2014.
Pranjal Yadav | Controversies
1990-92 President, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.), 1991 Elected to 10th Lok Sabha 1991-96 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Steel
Jagatvir Singh Drona | Positions held
MLA Ramappa Sobeppa Lamani from the opposition BJP Party is currently representing this area from May 2018 on-wards.
Shirahatti | Politics
His last position in government was as Deputy Prime Minister of India in the Janata Party government of 1977–1979, Disillusioned with the Janata party he formed his own party, the Congress (J). He remained a member of Parliament till his death in 1986, after over forty years as a parliamentarian. He was elected from Sasaram parliament constituency in Bihar. His uninterrupted representation in the Parliament from 1936 to 1986 is a world record.
Jagjivan Ram | Parliamentary career
Mahesh chandra Gupta contested Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election as Bharatiya Janata Party candidate and defeated Samajwadi Party with a margin of 16,467 votes. He has been appointed as Minister of state in a Yogi Adityanath cabinet on 21 August 2019.
Mahesh Chandra Gupta | Political career
He became the National Spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party in June 1996. He was appointed finance minister in March 1998. He was appointed as Minister for External Affairs on 1 July 2002. In the Lok Sabha elections of 2004, he was defeated in Hazaribagh Constituency by the able efforts of Prashant Sahay grandson of K B Sahay who later saved his life as well. He re-entered the Parliament in 2005. On 13 June 2009, he resigned from the post of vice-president of BJP. In 2018, he quit the BJP citing the "party's condition" and that "democracy in India is in great danger".
Yashwant Sinha | BJP
He was introduced to the ABVP during his graduation at Vallabh Govt. College Mandi, and won first election under the flag of ABVP, beginning his long association with the student organization. He remained Joint Secretary, State ABVP, 1986; Organizing Secretary, ABVP (J&K), 1989–93; State Secretary, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha; 1993–95; President: State Bhartiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha, ii) B.J.P. District Mandi 2000-03; Vice President State BJP, 2003–05; and President State Bhartiya Janata Party 2006-09. Elected to State Legislative Assembly in 1998, and re-elected in 2003 and 2007 from Chachiot Assembly Constituency which after the delimitation has been renamed as Seraj.
Jai Ram Thakur | Politics
In the subsequent by election, Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt of the BJP was elected and currently represents the constituency as its MP.
Vadodara (Lok Sabha constituency) | Introduction
In the 33-member Puducherry Legislative Assembly, 3 members are nominated by the Union government of India.
Reserved political positions in India | Union government's nominees to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly
In 2007, Gupta was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from the Allahabad constituency as a candidate of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). In the 2012 assembly elections, he was defeated by Samajwadi Party candidate Haji Parvej Ahmad in the Allahabad South seat. In the national elections of 2014, he sought election to the Lok Sabha as an Indian National Congress candidate from Allahabad but lost. In 2017, he was elected to the Uttar Pradesh assembly from Allahabad constituency for the BJP. At present he is Cabinet Minister of Minority Affairs, Political Pension and Civil Aviation in the BJP-led Government of Uttar Pradesh.
Nand Gopal Gupta | Political career
He became Minister of State for Home Affairs during the Narasimha Rao government and has been four time MP from Mishrikh and a two time MLA from Hargaon in Sitapur district. He left party and joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2017 and re-joined Congress in 2019. His son Suresh Rahi is MLA of Hargaon from BJP.
Ram Lal Rahi | Politics
The constituents of the National Democratic Alliance and the seats they contested and won are shown at the right in the table: The NDA garnered an overwhelming number of 336 seats in this election. This has propelled it to form the government in the country. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was chosen to lead the Bharatiya Janata Party's campaign after a party conclave in Goa. This came amid controversy as L. K. Advani opposed the decision and resigned from his party posts, only to later rescind his resignation. Murli Manohar Joshi and Sushma Swaraj were part of the team for the campaign.
2014 Indian general election | National Democratic Alliance
From 1973 to 1980, he was legislator of Latur Rural Constituency of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for two terms of 1973 to 1978 and 1978 to 1980 during which time he held various positions such as Chairman of Public Undertakings Committee, Deputy Minister (Law & Judiciary, Irrigation, Protocol), Deputy Speaker of the Assembly and Speaker of the Assembly.
Shivraj Patil | In state politics
He held that post till 1984. Then he became the Secretary of the National Council of the party as well as the Member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He held both the posts till his death. He was the leader of the party in parliament also. He headed a Constitutional Reform Committee of the party when the Soviet Crisis erupted.
N. E. Balaram | Election to State Assembly
Rapar BJP MLA Vaghjibhai Patel died on January 30, 2014 following heart attack. Lathi MLA Bavku Undhad resigned as he quit INC and joined BJP in January. GPP MLA Keshubhai Patel resigned in February following his ill health. GPP was merged with BJP on 24 February 2014. Nalin Kotadiya who was representing Dhari in assembly, joined BJP along with party. Four more MLAs Rajendrasinh Chavda, Jasabhai Barad, Chhabilbhai Patel and Parbhubhai Vasava quit INC and resigned as they joined BJP in February. Bypolls for all these seven seats were held on April 30 along with 2014 Indian general election. Voting turnout was 74.84% in Somnath, 70.19% in Abdasa, 56.62% in Rapar, 71.87% in Himmatnagar, 56.06% in Visavadar, 64.86% in Lathi and 67% in Mandvi which stood to an average of 65.92% in all seven constituencies.
2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election | 2014
Four seats became vacant in 2012-13. Bypolls for them was held by Election Commission in June 2013. All four seats were held by Indian National Congress members. Morva Hadaf MLA Savitaben Khant died in December 2012 while Limbdi MLA Soma Ganda resigned later as he chose to continue as a Member of Parliament. Jayesh Radadiya (Jetpur) and Vitthal Radadiya (Dhoraji) resigned as they left Indian National Congress and joined Bharatiya Janata Party in March, 2013. In bypolls, INC lost all four seats and BJP won all of them. The bypoll to Surat West was held on December 4, 2013 due to death of sitting BJP MLA Kishore Wankawala.
2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election | 2013
Shukla was appointed as a state minister in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led governments in Uttar Pradesh. He was appointed as the cabinet Minister for Jails in 1996-1998 under Bharatiya Janata Party-Bahujan Samaj Party a short-lived coalition government of Mayawati & Kalyan Singh & later on appointed Minister for Rural Development in year 1998-2002 under BJP government of Rajnath Singh.
Shiv Pratap Shukla | Minister of state in the BJP government
Politically he was active since his youth and became was swayamsevak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Vishwa Hindu Parishad. He became Member of Legislative Assembly from Dashada Vidhan Sabha Constituency at the age of 37 years. His organization skills was recognized by senior leaders in party and was given responsibility of State Vice President of the Bhartiya Janata Party. In year 2014 he got elected Rajya Sabha for Gujarat state. During his tenure in Rajya Sabha in opposition he raised many important questions of Dalit's. During this he was member in many important standing committees of parliament like petroleum and natural gas etc.
Shambhuprasad Tundiya | Political career
Hanamantagouda Krishnagouda Patil M INC 77,699 votes defeated Anil Mensinakai M BJP 75831
Gadag (Vidhana Sabha constituency) | 2018 Assembly Election
Positions Held May, 2014 Elected to 16th Lok Sabha member of parliament from Chatra (Lok Sabha constituency), Jharkhand as Bharatiya Janata Party Whip BJP, Won the Seat ensuring all candidates against him lost their deposits. Member, Committee on Government Assurances, Member, Standing Committee on Coal and Steel, Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of External Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs, Member, Joint Committee on Bill to Amend the Citizenship Act, 1955 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2017-2019 President, India-Republic of Korea Parliamentary Friendship Group May, 2019 Re-elected to 17th Lok Sabha (2nd term) member of parliament from Chatra (Lok Sabha constituency), Jharkhand as Bharatiya Janata Party.
Sunil Kumar Singh (politician) | Career
Despite joining the ranks of the Janata Party, CFD politicians remained specifically loyal to Jagjivan Ram. When Ram withdrew his support for the Desai government in 1979, he was supported by a significant number of former CFD MPs. With the fall of the Janata government in 1979-80, Ram and his supporters formed the Congress (J) - "J" standing for "Jagjivan", which maintained a small presence in the Indian Parliament.
Congress for Democracy | Post-Janata
This led to the Bharatiya Janata Party's suspension of support to the National Front government. VP Singh faced the vote of no confidence in the Lok Sabha saying that he occupied the high moral ground, as he stood for secularism, had saved the Babri Masjid at the cost of power and had upheld the fundamental principles which were challenged during the crises. "What kind of India do you want?" he asked of his opponents in Parliament, before losing the vote 142–346; only a portion of the National Front remaining loyal to him and the left parties supported him in the vote.
Vishwanath Pratap Singh | Ram temple issue and the fall of the coalition
India has seats in both houses of parliament, state assemblies, local municipal bodies and village-level institutions reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, better-known as Dalits and Adivasis respectively. The election of Dalit and tribal candidates is by the general electorate. Out of 543 constituencies in India's parliament, a total of 131 seats (24.16%) are Reserved or blocked for Representatives from Scheduled Castes (84) and Scheduled Tribes (47) only. This is different from separate electorate practiced in other countries. Many Indian states, like Kerala and Bihar, have parliamentary reserved seats for the Anglo-Indian community, as does the Lok Sabha.
Reserved political positions | India
Just before the elections for the 14th Lok Sabha, Gaddigoudar had denied allegations that he would be leaving All India Progressive Janata Dal (a splinter group of Janata Dal with allegiance to Ramakrishna Hegde) to join the Bharatiya Janata Party. However just before the elections, he did join the Bharatiya Janata Party with his followers and got the party's nomination from Bagalkot Lok Sabha Constituency. He entered the 14th Lok Sabha by securing 459,451 votes while his nearest rival, R.S. Patil of Indian National Congress, secured 292,068.
P. C. Gaddigoudar | Public life
In 1979, Desai and Vajpayee resigned, triggering the collapse of the Janata Party. The erstwhile members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh came together to form the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1980, with Vajpayee as its first President. The 1984 general elections were held in the wake of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination by her Sikh bodyguards. While he had won the 1977 and the 1980 elections from New Delhi, Vajpayee shifted to his home town Gwalior for the election. Vidya Razdan was initially tipped to be the Congress (I) candidate. Instead, Madhavrao Scindia, scion of the Gwalior royal family, was brought in on the last day of filing nominations.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Janata and the BJP (1975–1995)
Opposition leader Sushil Kumar Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party called Manjhi a "dummy chief minister", to which Manjhi responded by saying he was "not a rubber stamp." But after taking oath on 20 May 2014, Manjhi stated that he would "continue to seek guidance from Nitish Kumar." Due to the breakup of the JDU from the BJP-led NDA and the desertion of some JDU MLAs, CM Manjhi's government faced instability and appeared unlikely to pass the trust vote in the state legislative assembly. However, Lalu Prasad Yadav's RJD and Sonia Gandhi's Congress party provided outside support to Manjhi because he belongs to a backward caste.
Jitan Ram Manjhi | As Chief Minister
In 2008, he was re-elected again as a BJP candidate from Virajpet constituency after the de-limitation exercise reduced the number of seats in Kodagu district from three to two. He served as pro tem Speaker after the BJP victory and administered oath of office to all the members of the Legislative Assembly. Later, he was unanimously elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. On 30 December 2009, he was elected as the Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly following the resignation of the previous speaker, Jagadish Shettar. The election of the Speaker, however, was held under chaotic circumstances as the Opposition parties wanted the elections to be postponed due to the death of the Kannada actor Vishnuvardhan.
K. G. Bopaiah | Political career
As a Member of Parliament (India) he was the member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour, Parliamentary Forum on Children and the Parliamentary Consultative Committee for HRD Ministry. Before his resignation from Jammu & Kashmir National Conference he was the Vice President for the party form South Kashmir.
G. N. Ratanpuri | Entry into politics
For the first time, he won the Lok Sabha election from the Baramati parliamentary constituency in 1984. He also won the state assembly election of March 1985 for Baramati and preferred to return to state politics, and resigned his Lok Sabha seat. Congress (S), won 54 seats out of 288 in the state assembly, and Pawar became the leader of the opposition of PDF coalition which included the BJP, PWP, and the Janata party.
Sharad Pawar | 1978-1987
He got 96,143 votes and defeated his nearest rival and sitting MLA Neel Daman Khatri of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by a margin of 40,292 in the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections. The AAP won 67 out of the total 70 seats in the elections.
Sharad Chauhan | Political career
He was given additional charge of the Rural Development Department (December 2003 - October 2004) in Sushilkumar Shinde's government. When Congress-NCP combination returned to power in 2004, he retained the Water Resources Ministry in Deshmukh's government and later in Ashok Chavan's government. He also became the Guardian minister for Pune district in 2004 and held the post until the Congress - NCP coalition lost power in 2014. He was the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra State from 23 to 26 November 2019 for less than 80 hours. Thus, he became Deputy CM with the shortest tenure in Devendra Fadnavis led BJP-NCP alliance government.
Ajit Pawar | Political career
Singh joined the BJP at a rally organised in Meerut on 2 February 2014 in the presence BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi, party chief Rajnath Singh and UP in-charge Amit Shah. He was pitted against Civil Aviation Minister and Rashtriya Lok Dal supremo Ajit Singh from Baghpat (Lok Sabha constituency) where he won with a thumping margin of 2,09,866 votes, defeating Samajwadi Party's Ghulam Mohammed and pushing Ajit Singh to the third spot with only 1,99,516 votes. The Baghpat Lok Sabha constituency seat was the first to be declared in favour of the BJP led NDA on the day of the results.
Satya Pal Singh (Uttar Pradesh politician) | Political career
As per the enforcement of recommendations of the Mandal Commission, the Other Backward Classes (OBC) also get reserved seats in the Rural and Urban bodies election. Allocation of seats for Other Backward Classes are made on the basis of proportion of Other Backward Classes in the State concerned to that of the total population.
Reserved political positions in India | Other Backward Classes
In 1957, Lalita Rajya Lakshmi, of the Ramgarh Raj family, won the seat. Basant Narayan Singh, the younger brother of Kamakhya Narayan Singh, won the seat four times, in 1962, 1967, 1977 and 1980. Damodar Pandey of Congress won it in 1984. Yadunath Pandey of BJP won it in 1989. Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta of CPI won the seat in 1991 and in 2004. Mahabir Lal Viswakarma of BJP won the seat in 1996. Yashwant Sinha of BJP won the seat in 1998 and went on to become Finance Minister and later Foreign Minister in the NDA government. He also won the seat in 2009 Lok Sabha Elections.
Hazaribagh | Politics
In March 2013, Narendra Modi was appointed to the BJP Parliamentary Board, the party's highest decision-making body, and was chosen to be chairman of the party's Central Election Campaign Committee. On 10 June 2013, Modi was selected to head the poll campaign for the elections at the national level executive meeting of BJP in Goa. The party's senior leader L.K. Advani resigned from all his posts at the party following the selection. However, Advani withdrew his resignation the next day at the urging of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. On 19 July 2013, a 12-member committee, headed by Modi and under the guidance of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Rajnath Singh and Advani was appointed at the Goa conclave which included Murli Manohar Joshi, M.
Bharatiya Janata Party campaign for the 2014 Indian general election | Leadership
The suspension and later expulsion did not automatically disqualify him as a legislature. As of now, however, he is not a part of any legislative committee.
Kuldeep Singh Sengar | Expulsion from BJP
After the Emergency was lifted, he was elected to the 6th Lok Sabha (1977-1979) on a Janata Party ticket from Kapadvanj but lost that seat in 1980 elections. He was the Vice-President of the Janata Party in Gujarat and from 1980 to 1991 he was the General Secretary and President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1984 to 1989. In 1989 he was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha (1989–91) from Gandhinagar and in 1991 he was re-elected to the 10th Lok Sabha (1991–96) from Godhra. In 1995, BJP won a majority of 121 seats in the 182-member Legislative Assembly.
Shankersinh Vaghela | Janata Party and Bharatiya Janata Party
These included former PM Atal Behari Vajpayee, Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, former PM-candidate and Home Minister MP Lal Krishna Advani, MP Sushma Swaraj, former Law Minister MP Arun Jaitley. UP MP Murli Manohar Joshi, Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh, Jharkhand CM Arjun Munda, Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Modi, former Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje, Ananth Kumar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Narendra Singh Tomar, party deputy leader in the "Lok Sabha" Gopinath Munde, party deputy leader in the "Rajya Sabha" SS Ahluwalia, party Muslim member Shahnawaz Hussain, party vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, MP Shatrughan Sinha, MP Hema Malini, MP Smriti Irani, MP Navjot Singh Sidhu, Kalraj Mishra, Vinay Katiyar, Ramlal, former Foreign Minister MP Yashwant Sinha, former Madhya Pradesh CM and re-inductee into the party Uma Bharti, UP MP Varun Gandhi, Ramapati Ram Tripathi, Kesarinath Tripathi, Ramnath Kovind, Saudan Singh and Radha Mohan Singh.
2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election | Campaign
This assembly seat represents the following segments,
Tharad (Vidhan Sabha constituency) | List of segments
In the 2014 Indian general election, the BJP won 282 seats, leading the NDA to a tally of 336 seats in the 543-seat Lok Sabha. Narendra Modi was sworn in as the 14th Prime Minister of India on 26 May 2014. The vote share of the BJP was 31% of all votes cast, a low figure relative to the number of seats it won. This was the first instance since 1984 of a single party achieving an outright majority in the Indian Parliament and the first time that it achieved a majority in the Lok Sabha on its own strength.
Bharatiya Janata Party | NDA government (2014–present)
Sunil Kumar Sharma, of the Bharatiya Janata Party, is the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the area.
Sahibabad | Politics
In India, a certain number of political position and university posts are held for specifics groups of the population, including Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Women. There are reserved constituencies in both Parliamentary and State Assembly elections. Candidates of General category are not eligible to contest from these constituencies. All voters are to vote for one of the candidates (from Scheduled Castes or Schedule Tribes). In case of Municipal elections and other Local Bodies elections, the constituencies are known as Wards. Thus, there may be as many Wards or Constituencies as the number of elected seats in the elected body.
Reserved political positions in India | Introduction
Surat Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 26 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Gujarat. Veteran BJP strongman Kashiram Rana has been an MP from this seat for 6 terms. Surat was also the constituency of the 7th Prime Minister of India Morarji Desai, who has been an MP for this constituency for 5 terms. Surat has elected BJP leaders as MP since 1989 with overwhelming margins.
Surat (Lok Sabha constituency) | Introduction
He voluntarily retired from politics post 1985. During the elections of 1980 at the age of 61 he announced that this would be his last elections and he wouldn't be contesting elections henceforth. After leaving politics for the past 25 years he practised yoga and meditation. He often visited the 'Vipasana Kendra' in Igatpuri.
B. J. Khatal-Patil | Post Politics
They all belonged to BJP. Incumbent Chief Minister Narendra Modi resigned as MLA from Maninagar as he won from Vadodara and Varanasi and sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of India. The eight others include Khambhalia MLA Poonam Madam (elected from Jamnagar), Anand MLA Dilip Patel (Anand), Limkheda MLA Jaswantsinh Bhabhor (Dahod), Deesa MLA Liladhar Vaghela (Patan), Matar MLA Devusinh Chauhan (Kheda), Talaja MLA Bharati Shiyal (Bhavnagar), Mangrol MLA Rajesh Chudasama (Junagadh) and Tankara MLA Mohan Kundariya (Rajkot). Byepolls were held on 13 September 2014 which recorded following voters turnout: Limkheda (64%), Maninagar (33.5%), Deesa (59.76%), Tankara (57%), Khambhalia (55.5%), Mangrol (57%), Talja (49%), Anand (57%) and Matar (54.7%).
2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election | 2014
General election 2013 were held on May 11, 2013. The constituency is often called "The fort of the PPP" as the seat covers the native home of the former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Garhi Khuda Baksh. The seat was won by Ms. Faryal Talpur of the PPP in the 2013 general election who won this seat uncontested in 2008.
Constituency NA-207 | Election 2013
He was inducted as a member of the BJP National Council in 1989. He was elected for successive terms in 1996 & 1999 and again in 2014 to the Lok Sabha from Ghazipur Constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He was made the Minister of State for the Railways Ministry in the first set of ministers inducted into Narendra Modi government in May 2014. In July 2016, during the second cabinet reshuffle, he was also made Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Communications Ministry.
Manoj Sinha | Political career
He became chairman of discipline committee of BJP Rajasthan in 2013. He was also member of state election committee BJP and star pracharak in 2013. He was again chosen as star pracharak in Lok sabha election 2014. He organised Narendra Modi's rally in his own village Ratkuria on 7 April 2014.
Ramnarayan Dudi | Position in <a href="Bharatiya%20Janata%20Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a>
On 10 September 2013, Rathore joined Bharatiya Janata Party after taking retirement from the Indian Army. He was elected as an MP in the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Jaipur Rural constituency. On 9 November 2014, he was sworn-in as the Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting, under the Narendra Modi government.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore | Political career
K. N. Govindacharya became a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1988 and for a period until 2000 he served as its General Secretary. He was forced to leave the BJP on the insistence of Prime Minister Vajpayee as he said Advani was calling the shots while the Prime Minister was just a mask. He insisted that the statement had been wrongly attributed to him, but Vajpayee, not impressed by the clarification, thought the damage to the party's image had been done, whether or not the quote was authentic.
K. N. Govindacharya | Political career
After the 2018 assembly elections, BJP emerged as the single largest party with 104 seats, followed by the INC with 78 seats and JD(S) with 37 seats. INC extended the support to JD(S) to form the government. Governor Vajubhai Vala invited BJP to form the government and B. S. Yeddyurappa was sworn in as the Chief Minister. But B. S. Yeddyurappa could not prove the majority of his government and resigned after 2 days of being sworn in. After that, H. D. Kumaraswamy of the JD(S) was sworn in as the Chief Minister, with the support of INC, BSP, KPJP and IND MLA.
Second H. D. Kumaraswamy ministry | Tenure of the Government
Hazra started his political career as a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Trinamool Congress representing Bolpur constituency. Hazra was expelled by TMC on January 9 for antiparty activities. He was fielded by the BJP in March to contest from the Jadavpur Lok Sabha seat. Trinamool Congress's Mimi Chakraborty registered a landslide victory over Anupam Hazra with a margin of 295239 votes. Hazra was appointed as the BJP’s national general secretary on 26 September 2020.
Anupam Hazra | Political Career
Venkaiah Naidu was nominated by National Democratic Alliance. He was the then Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation of India. He had also served as a party president of Bharatiya Janata Party. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that Naidu was a "fitting candidate" for the post. According to "Indian Express" leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party felt that if Naidu got elected then it would act as a morale booster for the party in south Indian states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Besides the parties of the NDA, YSR Congress party, AIADMK and Telangana Rashtra Samiti parties also pledged to support Naidu.
2017 Indian vice presidential election | NDA Candidate
This assembly seat represents the following segments,
Gandhinagar Dakshin | List of segments
She had planned to contest the 2002 assembly elections from her native place, Kutiyana in Saurashtra. However, she later vacated the seat for the Congress party's candidate. The subsequent defeat of Congress, BJP's action of further marginalization and arrest for the murder of a BJP councilor in August 2005 put her deep into the backseat.
Santokben Jadeja | Moving into backseat
Tilak Nagar has been a BJP stronghold since 1993, when for the first time Delhi got its own Chief Minister after a period of 37 years of President's rule. The current Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Tilak Nagar Constituency is Jarnail Singh, a candidate from newly formed Aam Aadmi Party emerged victorious after defeating a BJP candidate.
Tilak Nagar (Delhi) | Government and politics
This assembly seat represents the following segments, Some of those villages have constituted seats of erstwhile petty princely state.
Gadhada (Vidhan Sabha constituency) | List of segments
In 1977 election to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Janata Party won 352 out of total 425 seats. The leader of the Uttar Pradesh Janata legislative party was chosen through election. Ram Naresh Yadav secured 277 votes and became the leader. He was sworn in as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on 23 June 1977. Here are the names of ministers in his ministry:
Ram Naresh Yadav ministry | Introduction
He represented the Bhavnagar constituency of Gujarat for five terms of the Parliament. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and served as the President of the state unit of BJP from 1998 to 2006. He did not contest 2014 Indian general election.
Rajendrasinh Ghanshyamsinh Rana | Political career
In 1996, Yadav was elected to the eleventh Lok Sabha from Mainpuri constituency. In the United Front coalition government formed that year, his party joined and he was named India's Defence Minister. That government fell in 1998 as India went in for fresh elections, but he returned to the Lok Sabha that year from Sambhal parliamentary constituency. After the fall of Atal Bihari Vajpayee government at the centre in April 1999, he did not support the Congress party in the formation of the government at the Centre. He contested Lok Sabha elections of 1999 from two seats, Sambhal and Kannauj, and won from both.
Mulayam Singh Yadav | Cabinet minister
Despite the war, Vajpayee continued to display a willingness to engage Pakistan in dialogue. This was not well received among the BJP cadre, who criticised the government for being "weak". This faction of the BJP asserted itself at the post-Kargil Agra summit, preventing any significant deal from being reached.
Bharatiya Janata Party | Foreign policy
Previous MLAs from this seat were Kishore Tarai of BJD in 2014, Sipra Malick of BJD in 2009, Utkal Keshari Parida of OGP in 2004, Bed Prakash Agarwalla who won this seat in 2000 representing BJP and also earlier in 1990 representing JD and in 1977 representing JNP, Bhagabat Prasad Mohanty of INC who won in 1995 and in 1985, and Indramani Rout of INC (I) in 1980.
Kendrapara | Politics
The BJP fielded as many as 427 candidates and a total of 543 candidates including the parties in NDA. The prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's candidature was fielded from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. At the same time, Modi will also be fielded from Vadodara in his home region of Gujarat. L. K. Advani was given the Gandhinagar seat from Gujarat. BJP president Rajnath Singh shifted to Lucknow away from home constituency of Ghaziabad. Arun Jaitley, who is contesting for the Lok Sabha seat for the first time, is fielded from Amritsar. Party leader Sushma Swaraj is contesting from home constituency of Vidisha.
Bharatiya Janata Party campaign for the 2014 Indian general election | Parliamentary candidates
Member of Legislative Assembly:- Shri Satyendar Jain (AAP) (Shakur Basti) Councillor:- Shrimati Vandana Jaitley (Bharatiya Janata Party) Ex MLA- Shri Shyamlal Garg (Bhartiya Janata Party)
Sant Nagar, Rani Bagh | Political leaders
He successfully contented election from Amritsar North in 2007 as a BJP candidate. In 2012 he was re-elected from Amritsar North. Presently he is cabinet minister and holding portfolio of Local Bodies, Medical Education & Research.
Anil Joshi | Political career
I 2004, that he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and was elected as its Vice President in 2013. In June 2014, he was appointed as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council. In October 2014, he was elected as Cabinet Minister of Maharashtra. He has been holding the Cabinet Minister office since July 2016 and handling the revenue, relief & rehabilitation and Public Works department. He is currently not a minister.
Chandrakant Bacchu Patil | Political career
Kashyap was first elected as MLA in 2003 from Bhanpuri constituency and became Minister of State (Independent Charge) in Raman Singh's ministry. He got re-elected in 2008 from Narayanpur and also retained the seat in 2013 Assembly election. He served as Cabinet Minister for Tribal and Scheduled Caste, Backward Class and Minority Development during 2008 to 2018. He lost 2018 Assembly election to Chandan Kashyap of Congress.
Kedar Nath Kashyap | Political career
He contested the assembly elections and lost to Rahul Jagtap from NCP. In 2019 vidhansabha elections Babanrao Pachpute from BJP and Ghanshyam Shelar from NCP were the candidates and Ghanshyam Shelar lost to Babanrao Pachpute just with difference of 4700 votes.And this 2019 election was one of the eye-catching election.Another one of the powerful leader of Congress and Z P Vice president Recently, Manhor Pote (The Municipality Shrigonda) appointed as a BJP. Also there is the rise of second generation young politicians like Vikramshin Babanrao Pachpute, Rajendra Shivajirao Nagawade, Prashant Ghanshyam Shelar etc.
Shrigonda | Politics
Khalil Ansari of Congress defeated Ram Deo Singh of CPI in 1985. Pir Mohammad Ansari of Congress defeated Ram Swartha Rai of Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) in 1980. Ram Sagar Prasad Yadav of Congress defeated Ramswarath Rai of JP in 1977
Sitamarhi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) | 1977-2010