Narendra Damodardas Modi ( ; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete more than five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
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Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi | Introduction
Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Bharatiya Janata Party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
full name of current prime minister of india
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Narendra Damodardas Modi
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when did he become the prime minister?
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In 2014
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what has been his policies towards the environment?
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Cancelled the Requirement of clearance  from NBA for projects close to wildlife, rRelaxed or Abolished regulations related to Industrial Activity & Modi lifted a moratorium on new industrial activity in the most polluted areas in the countries.
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did he win another term after the first?
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Yes. By securing 353 seats in the Lok Sabha with the BJP alone winning 303 seats.
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what political party is he affiliated with?
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Solanki was affiliated with Shiv Sena as secretary of IT cell and contact president of Gujarat section. He identifies himself as a social worker and Hinduvadi. After 2019 Maharashtra political crisis, Shiv Sena decided to ally with Nationalist Congress Party and Indian National Congress to form government. On 26 November 2019, Solanki resigned from Shiv Sena, after 21 years, by citing that his ideology would not let him work with Congress. Additionally, he said that he will always remain Balasaheb's Shivsainik.
Ramesh Solanki | Political affiliation
He later joined Bharatiya Janata Party after the dissolution of Jan Sangh. He represented Himayatnagar assembly constituency thrice in 1983, 1994 and 1997. He was a strong support to the public and true leader. He was a ticket conductor in Road Transport Corporation, By his early age he was RSS acolyte and with all the public support he turned out to be a leader of that time. He won as MP from Medak in 1999 and 2004 from Medak Lok Sabha constituency. He was the state minister of Rural Development in UPA I.
Aelay Narendra | BJP
In November of that year Modi was elected BJP national secretary and transferred to New Delhi, where he assumed responsibility for party activities in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. The following year, Shankersinh Vaghela, a prominent BJP leader from Gujarat, defected to the Indian National Congress (Congress, INC) after losing his parliamentary seat in the Lok Sabha elections. Modi, on the selection committee for the 1998 Assembly elections in Gujarat, favoured supporters of BJP leader Keshubhai Patel over those supporting Vaghela to end factional division in the party. His strategy was credited as key to the BJP winning an overall majority in the 1998 elections, and Modi was promoted to BJP general secretary (organisation) in May of that year.
Narendra Modi | Early political career
"I Support Narendra Modi" (ISN) was an Indian social advocacy group supporting Narendra Modi as Prime Minister of India. The movement was founded by members Vikas Pandey, Vinod Rai, Hitesh Rangra, Devang Dave, Bijesh Dwiwedy, Hardik Upadhyay, Shailesh Jha and Vikki Giridhar. ISN used social media tools to mobilize young people during the election and supported initiatives such as blood donation camps and political activism. The I Support Narendra Modi Facebook fan page was listed among the top 5 pages in the world in the Political category, with 1 crore followers. The success of "Chai Pe Charcha" was largely due to the ISN team.
Bharatiya Janata Party campaign for the 2014 Indian general election | I Support Narendra Modi
Ahead of the 2003 assembly elections he launched LM(HP) as a political party and was elected as its sole member of the assembly. In total LM(HP) had 14 candidates, who together got 66,102 votes (2,17% of the votes in the state). In the 2004 elections LM(HP) supported the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance. Ahead of the elections there were discussions on a merger with BJP,He merged his party with bjp in 2004.In the 2007 election he fought the election under the ticket of bjp and again retained his seat.
Loktantrik Morcha Himachal Pradesh | Introduction
He remained in the Janta Dal and was a staunch supporter of Ramakrishna Hegde. When Ramakrishna Hegde floated the Rashtreeya Nava Nirmana Vedike, Ramesh Jigajinagi was among the earliest sitting MLAs to support him and join the new party by resigning his ministership. Later, he joined Lok Shakti, a party formed by Ramakrishna Hegde and rejoined Janata Dal United after the merger of Lok Shakti with the former. After the death of his mentor, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Ramesh Jigajinagi | Political career
He was elected as MLA from Arkalgud as BJP's candidate in 1999. Later he joined Congress Party, and won Arkalgud Vidhan Sabha seat in 2008 and 2013. After 2013 elections, he was a minister under Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. He contested 2014 Lok Sabha elections as Congress candidate from Hassan constituency but lost to Deve Gowda. Later he re-joined Bhartiya Janata Party, and was its losing candidate in Hassan Lok Sabha constituency in 2019, this time losing to Deve Gowda's grandson Prajwal Revanna.
A. Manju | Political party
He is reported to be a member of the Moderate Socialists Party but he was favoured by the Democrat Party at the time appointed as the Prime Minister and formed a pro-Democrat cabinet.
Najaf-Qoli Khan Bakhtiari | Party affiliation
He was in Indian National Lok Dal a regional outfit. He is now in Bhartiya Janta Party and contested for MLA from Jind Stood second by a narrow margin of 2,000 votes. He joined the party in presence of BJP President Amit Shah and Health Minister Govt. Of India Shri J.P.Nadda on 12 September 2014.
Surender Singh Barwala | Introduction
A critic of Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, Pratapgarhi joined the Indian National Congress and contested in 2019 Indian general election from Moradabad, where he lost to S. T. Hasan of Samajwadi Party with a margin of more than half a million votes (590,218 votes).
Mohammad Imran Pratapgarhi | Political career
In August 2014, Singh parted ways with Congress after being denied ticket as Congress candidate during 16th Lok Sabha elections. He formally joined Bhartiya Janata Party in presence of BJP President Amit Shah at a function in Kathua.
Lal Singh Chaudhary (politician) | Change in Political Affiliation
Modi rose within the party and was named a member of the BJP's National Election Committee in 1990, helping organise L. K. Advani's 1990 Ram Rath Yatra in 1990 and Murli Manohar Joshi's 1991–92 "Ekta Yatra" (Journey for Unity). However, he took a brief break from politics in 1992, instead establishing a school in Ahmedabad; friction with Shankersingh Vaghela, a BJP MP from Gujarat at the time, also played a part in this decision. Modi returned to electoral politics in 1994, partly at the insistence of Advani, and as party secretary, Modi's electoral strategy was considered central to the BJP victory in the 1995 state assembly elections.
Narendra Modi | Early political career
Nehwal joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Delhi on 29 January 2020 in the presence of party's national general secretary Arun Singh. Her sister Abu Chandranshu Nehwal also joined the party. She was quoted as saying "Narendra Modi is working hard for the country, and has always inspired me."
Saina Nehwal | Politics
Kamal Nath is a member of the INC (Indian National Congress) political party and served as general secretary from 2001 to 2004. Nath has close ties with the Nehru–Gandhi family, being young friends and schoolmates with Sanjay at the Doon School, an independent boarding school located in Dehradun.
Kamal Nath | Political associations
The Republican Party of India (Democratic) was a political party in India. The leader and party president of the party was T. M. Kamble. After T. M. Kamble's death, Nanda T. Kamble became the president of the party. The party was a splinter group of the Republican Party of India. After the 2004 election, it had minor representation within the Lok Sabha and was a constituent of the ruling United Progressive Alliance. Its presence was limited to Maharashtra. On 5 May 2011, the RP(D) aligned itself with the BJP-led NDA. In 2015, it was listed as one of the 26 political allies for prime minister candidate- Narendra Modi.
Republican Party of India (Democratic) | Introduction
In the 2004 general election, the NDA suffered an unexpected defeat, and for the next ten years the BJP was the principal opposition party. Long time Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi led it to a landslide victory in the 2014 general election. Since that election, Modi leads the NDA government as Prime Minister and , the BJP and its alliance governs 16 states.
Conservatism in India | Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party
He was originally from the Indian National Congress. Later he joined Janata Dal - United.Then he went back to Congress and was elected MLA from Nanjangud in 2013. He then changed his party again and officially joined BJP on 24 December 2016. This necessitated a bye-poll in Nanjangud which he lost to the Congress candidate in 2017.
Srinivasa Prasad | Political party
Rao joined politics after Indian independence. Rao held the position of MLA in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for three terms before becoming a Member of Parliament in the 6th Lok Sabha of India. He was a member of the Bharatiya Lok Dal political party.
Raje Vishveshvar Rao | Political career
Rajesh was affiliated with Samajwadi Party till his expulsion in July 2014. He is president of the "Amethi Udyog Vypaar Mandal", a traders’ organisation. His wife Chandrama Devi Agrahari has been twice elected to Amethi Nagar Palika election. He unsuccessfully contested 2007 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections from Amethi constituency of Sultanpur district, gained 20804 voted for SP. Rajesh joined BJP on 28 December 2014 in presence of Union Minister for State Ram Shankar Katheria and UP-BJP President Laxmikant Bajpai.
Rajesh Agrahari | Politics
He briefly dabbled into politics by unsuccessfully contesting the Lok Sabha elections for the Indian National Congress from Rajapur in 1998. He got 1,52,724 votes against Suresh Prabhu of Shiv Sena who won with 2,17,766 votes. He later was associated with the Nationalist Congress Party. He remained president of Marathi theatre artiste organization, Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Parishad.
Macchindra Kambli | Politics and career
Laxmikant Sharma was chosen four times consecutively as BJP M.L.A. from Sironj-Lateri constituency but he lost to Gowardhan Upadhyay an INC candidate in assembly elections of 2013.
Lateri | Politics
Modi himself was a candidate for the Lok Sabha in two constituencies: Varanasi and Vadodara. He won in both constituencies, defeating Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal in Varanasi and Madhusudan Mistry of the INC in Vadodara by votes. Modi, who was unanimously elected leader of the BJP, was appointed prime minister by India's president. To comply with the law that an MP cannot represent more than one constituency, he vacated the Vadodara seat.
Narendra Modi | 2014 Indian general election
Patel has been associated with Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad, a student union affiliated with the BJP since his days as a student. He was president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Hoshangabad. Later, he was made state general secretary of BJP Yuva Morcha then also became state president of BJP Yuva morcha. He has been elected on five occasions as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh from Harda constituency. Those successes came in the consecutive elections of 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2018 .
Kamal Patel (politician) | Political career
The BJP's estranged ally, the Shiv Sena later joined the BJP-led government, and that government then did not need the support of the NCP. In May 2017, Pawar ruled out being a candidate for the June 2017 Indian presidential election. In the 2019 elections to the Lok Sabha, Pawar's NCP and the Congress party had a seat-sharing arrangement. Similarly, despite their differences, the BJP and Shiv Sena once again contested the elections together under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) banner. The election gave a landslide victory to Narendra Modi's BJP. Out of the 48 seats in Maharashtra, the Congress party won only one seat in the state, whereas the NCP won five seats from its stronghold of western Maharashtra.
Sharad Pawar | Career since 2014
He was closely associated with Mahatma Gandhi and served as his secretary, when in Yerwada prison in 1932. After independence, he left Congress in 1947 and with some other ex-congressman joined the Peasants and Workers Party of India, of which he was one of founder member. In 1961 he again joined Congress with his other PWP colleagues like Keshavrao Jedhe, Shankarrao More. He was given ticket and was elected as a member of 3rd Lok Sabha from Nanded from 1962–67 and as a member of the 4th Lok Sabha from Baramati as a Congress candidate. He was at times vocal opponent of Yashwantrao Chavan in many matters of policies and decisions for which in 1971 elections he was denied election ticket.
Tulsidas Jadhav | Political life
Singh later registered Loktantrik Morcha (Himachal Pradesh) as a political party.
Him Loktantrik Morcha | Introduction
Sudesh Sharma has been a MLA for one term. He represented the Modinagar constituency and is a member of the Rashtriya Lok Dal political party.
Sudesh Sharma | Political career
In 1991 elections, he left from Lok Dal and joined Janata Party. He again contest from Barsathi but lost by BJP's Raghuraj and stood on third with 14,686 (17℅) votes. In 1992, when Mulayam Singh Yadav founded the Samajwadi Party, Yadav also left the Janata Party and joined the Samajwadi Party. From then till his death he remained associated with Samajwadi Party. He was the closest leader to Mulayam Singh Yadav. In his third Legislature term, in 12th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh (1993) elections, he got ticket by Samajwadi Party from Barsathi and he elected MLA. Their winning margin also increased over time, he defeated his nearest candidate INC's Shachindra Nath Tripathi by a huge margin of 41,843 (31.85℅) votes.
Parasnath Yadav | Political career
Vice-President, District Congress Committee (I) Nellore, Andhra Pradesh; Vice-President, District Kisan Congress, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh; President, Seenaiah Sena Harijan Wing, Andhra Pradesh Congress (I); Member, Scheduled Castes Federation;
Puchalapalli Penchalaiah | Previous association with political parties
He was MLA from Raniganj constituency of Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh from 2012–2016. He won 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election with 38.96% votes gain. On 18 January 2012, Ojha was assigned as minister in Akhilesh Yadav’s cabinet. He was formerly affiliated with Bhartiya Janata Party and Bahujan Samaj Party. He unsuccessfully contested 2009 Lok Sabha elections on the ticket of BSP,> defeated by Rajkumari Ratna Singh.
Shivakant Ojha | Political career
On 13 October 2018, Modi was renamed as the BJP candidate for prime minister ahead of the 2019 General Election. The chief campaigner for the party was BJP's president Amit Shah. Modi contested the Lok Sabha elections as a candidate from Varanasi. He won the seat by defeating Shalini Yadav of the Samajwadi Party by a margin of votes. Modi was unanimously appointed the prime minister for a second time by the National Democratic Alliance, after the alliance won the election for the second time by securing 353 seats in the Lok Sabha with the BJP alone winning 303 seats.
Narendra Modi | 2019 Indian general election
He started his political life as a student leader and was member of Bharatiya Janata Party. In 2007 he left Bharatiya Janata Party to join Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik). Babulal Marandi expelled his party MLAs Yadav and Bandhu Tirkey from the party for anti-party activities. Both of them later joined Indian National Congress in its Delhi headquarters as Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) party was merged with Bharatiya Janata Party
Pradeep Yadav | Introduction
In 2004 elections for Member of Parliament, he lost to Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate Raghunath Jha. He later quit BJP to join RJD when differences mounted in tickets sharing and selection of right candidates with BJP state unit president Keshri Nath Tripathi to return to BJP in few months with high command intervention.
Madan Prasad Jaiswal | Political career
Agrawal was a MLA for seven terms from 1980 to 2012 except 1985 to 1989. As an MLA, he represented the Hardoi constituency. He was a member of the Samajwadi Party political party till 12 March 2018, till he joined the Bharatiya Janta Party. Till 1997, he was a member of Indian National Congress. In 1997, he was forming member of Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress along with Jagdambika Pal, Rajeev Shukla and Shyam Sunder Sharma,Bacha Pathak and became Minister of Power in Kalyan Singh, Ram Prakash Gupta and Rajnath Singh governments. He was also Minister of Tourism in Mulayam Singh Yadav Government from 2003 to 2004.
Naresh Chandra Agrawal | Political career
Naga Babu joined Jana Sena Party established by his brother Pawan Kalyan and contested as a M.P. candidate for Narasapuram Lok Sabha constituency in the 2019 Indian general election. He lost after securing 2,50,289 votes.
Nagendra Babu | Political career
He had represented Mumbai North Central in 9th Lok Sabha in 1989-91 as Shiv Sena candidate. Throughout his life, he was affiliated with socio-political organizations like RSS, Hindu Mahasabha which are proponents of Hindutva ideology, and was associated with their leaders like Veer Savarkar, Pu Bha Bhave, Balasaheb Deoras.
Vidyadhar Gokhale | Political career
The ABVP spokesmen insist that the ABVP is not affiliated to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). They describe it the "student wing" of the RSS. However, both the BJP and the ABVP are members of the Sangh Parivar, the RSS's "family of (affiliated) organisations". The BJP is said to gain handsomely from the ABVP's support base and several politicians of the BJP, including the former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, had their ideological foundation in the ABVP. Several scholars make no distinction between the RSS and the BJP, and regard the ABVP as a student wing of both of them or either of them.
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad | Links to the Bharatiya Janata Party
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
She joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in August 2019 professing to be strongly influenced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She lost to Sombir in October 2019 in Haryana assembly elections from Dadri (Vidhan Sabha constituency). She was criticized for her Islamophobic tweets during the coronavirus outbreak in India.
Babita Kumari | Politics
In 2013 Kumar joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He contested the Delhi assembly elections from the Wazirpur constituency on an AAP ticket, but lost. The next year, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Praveen Kumar Sobti | Politics
During his college days, Shah was a member of the ABVP, the student wing of the RSS. At the age of 18, he secured a position in the ABVP and joined the BJP in 1987. Shah was first elected in Gujarat as the MLA for a seat partly covering Ahmedabad, Sarkhej in 1997 (a by-election). He continued to hold it in the 1998, 2002 and 2007 elections until the seat's dissolution in 2008; he then got elected from the nearby Naranpura in 2012. As a close associate of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, he held executive portfolios in the Gujarat state government.
Amit Shah | Introduction
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
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
Nirbhay Pal Sharma had been in active politics since 1970s. He was a MLA for three terms. During the 09th and the 12th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh he was a member of the Indian National Congress whereas during the 13th Legislative Assembly he was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. His son Raghav Lakhanpal Sharma was also a BJP MLA for the same seat.
Nirbhay Pal Sharma | Political career
Amarpal Sharma has been a MLA for one term. He represented the Sahibabad constituency and was a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party political party until 16 January 2017, when he was expelled for anti-party activities by allegedly attempting to cooperate with the rival Bharatiya Janata Party. He has since joined the Indian National Congress.
Amarpal Sharma | Political career
In September 2013, Kuldeep Bishnoi declared his support for the BJP by backing the party's Prime Ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi.
Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) | History
, it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the Sansad and Vidhan Bhavans, 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 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. After the 1998 general election, the BJP-led coalition known as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) formed a government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for a year. Following fresh elections, the NDA government, again headed by Vajpayee, lasted for a full term in office; this was the first non-Congress government to do so.
Conservatism in India | Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party
Afzal Ansari contested the 2004 Lok Sabha general election in 2004 on the Samajwadi Party ticket and defeated Manoj Sinha of the Bharatiya Janata Party with a margin of 226,777 votes. He contested the 2009 general election on the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket for Ghazipur but lost to the Samajwadi Party's Radhe Mohan Singh. After some political differences, Ansari left the Bahujan Samaj Party and founded a new political party called Quami Ekta Dal and served as its Secretary-General before merging it with Bahujan Samaj Party. Ansari rejoined the BSP in 2019 and contested the general election in Gazipur; he won the seat, becoming the 17th Lok Sabha member from Gazhipur.
Afzal Ansari | Member of Parliament
Singh and Arif Mohammad Khan. He later became a minister in the National Front government of 1989-90 under V.P. Singh and switched allegiance to join the subsequent Chandrasekhar government and served as Minister for External Affairs of India during 1990-91 under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar, during the Lok Sabha as a member of Janata Dal. He again returned to Congress Party and also served as Cabinet Minister under Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao during 1991-96 as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Irrigation. in 2003 he shifted to Nationalist Congress Party and headed the Chhattisgarh Unit of NCP. However, he changed his political allegiance and joined BJP towards end of 2003, but in 2004 Lok Sabha elections he himself lost on the BJP ticket from Mahasamund against Ajit Jogi of INC.
Vidya Charan Shukla | Political career
Gupta is a member of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and is active in the politics of Delhi. He embarked on a career in politics after becoming a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) during his time in the Madan Mohan Malviya Inter College as a twelfth-grade student in 1987. His involvement in student politics continued at Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University. He rose in the ABVP to become the head of its district unit and later secretary of the state unit. He actively participated in the Ram Janmabhoomi Movement and canvassed students for its support. The Ram Janmabhoomi Movement was spearheaded by the BJP and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad to claim disputed land in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, hypothesised to be the birthplace of the Hindu deity Rama, for Hindus.
Adesh Kumar Gupta | Political career
A former member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Kulkarni joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1996. Of this ideological switch he said, "People like me were living in an illusory land. I realised very late in my life that the Marxist ideology is not suitable in India - in fact, I would say it is unsuitable for any corner of the world." As a member of the BJP, he was associated with the India Shining campaign and rode on the inaugural Delhi–Lahore Bus. He helped former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee write his speeches and in 2008 was acting as a strategist for Lal Krishna Advani, who had influenced his rise within the party.
Sudheendra Kulkarni | Stint with BJP
In September 1995, Vaghela rebelled against the BJP leadership with the support of 47 MLAs. Vaghela lost Godhra seat in May 1996 Lok Sabha polls, and soon left Bharatiya Janata Party with his supporters, bringing down Suresh Mehta's government. He floated his own party, named Rashtriya Janta Party and became Chief Minister with Indian National Congress's support in October 1996.
Rashtriya Janata Party | Introduction
He was closely associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Sangh Parivar since his childhood. Also, he was an active member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad during his college days. He participated in the movement against the Kambadakada dam project in Kodagu proposed by the government in the 1970s. He was arrested during the Emergency in Bangalore and imprisoned along with thousands of other opposition activists. He was appointed as General Secretary of the Kodagu district unit of the BJP and elevated as its president in the 1990s. In 2004, he was elected as a MLA from Madikeri constituency as a BJP candidate.
K. G. Bopaiah | Political career
He contested elections to the Lok Sabha from Chandigarh Parliamentary Constituency as a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the General Elections held in the years 1991, 1996, 1998, 2004 and 2009. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1996 (11th Lok Sabha) and 1998 (12th Lok Sabha). During his membership of the 11th Lok Sabha (1996–1998), he was appointed the Whip of the Bhartiya Janta Party for all the states of Northern India, Incharge of Punjab Affairs in Lok Sabha and was also appointed as Convener of Legal Committee of the BJP Parliamentary Party. He also remained a member of the Consultative and Parliamentary Standing Committees of Ministry of Home Affairs and The Privileges Committee of Lok Sabha.
Satya Pal Jain | Legislative career
Yadav started his political journey with Bharatiya Janata Party in 2007, even though he is said to have never aligned with BJP's ideology but on request of Mahant Avaidyanath he agreed to contest on Bharatiya Janata Party ticket. Despite the stiff opposition of Yogi Adityanath in the 2012 election, BJP gave him the ticket, due to which Yogi Adityanath pitted his party Hindu Yuva Vahini candidate against him. however he won the election and emerged as a strong regional leader of Purvanchal. During this period his closeness to Akhilesh Yadav kept growing and in controversial Rajya Sabha elections he voted for Samajwadi Party candidate against BJP.
Vijay Bahadur Yadav | Political career
He was cleared of wrongdoing in this matter. In May 2009, he was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Lucknow by a margin over 40,000 votes over Rita Bahuguna Joshi of Indian National Congress. The seat was earlier held by former BJP President Atal Bihari Vajpayee since 1991 for four consecutive terms. Despite enormous electoral spending, Akhilesh Das of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) polled third, trailing by 70,000 votes.
Lalji Tandon | Career
Ramesh Mendola is considered to be a close associate of national General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party Kailash Vijayvargiya, who is also from Indore and originally represented Indore-2 constituency until handing it over to Mendola in 2008. Before fighting assembly election, Mendola has been previously elected as a corporator in Indore Municipal Corporation several times. He has also served as the city President of Indore BJP. He has also served as the president of Nanda Nagar Sakh Sahkari Sanstha Maryadit, a local credit cooperative society in Indore-2, his constituency. Ramesh Mendola was elected to the Vidhan Sabha in 2008, 2013 and 2018.
Ramesh Mendola | Political career
He defeated Samajwadi Party candidate Pramod Kumar Tekriwal by a margin of 18,448 (18.67℅) votes. Before 2007 elections, he joined Bharatiya Janata Party. In 15th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh (2007) elections, he again contest from Gorakhpur Urban (Assembly constituency) and elected MLA by defeating Bhanu Prakash Mishra (Samajwadi Party) by a margin of 22,392 (24.66℅) votes.
Radha Mohan Das Agarwal | Political career
A former member of the Samajwadi Party, Singh has been a member of the 14th and 17th Legislative Assemblies of Uttar Pradesh. He was expelled from the BJP in 2004 . Since 2002, he has represented the Tiloi constituency and is a member of the BJP. On 26 October 2017, Singh indicated that he may leave the BJP.
Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh | Political career
Somanna so 14 first preference votes from other independent and smaller party MLAs) and won after adding second preference votes. Lehar Singh is a staunch follower of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and admires his policies. Lehar Singh is perceived to be close to the then Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and was a crucial link between the Karnataka BJP unit and High Command.
Lehar Singh Siroya | Introduction
Vedram Bhati has been a MLA for three term. He represented the Jewar constituency in the 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party political party.
Vedram Bhati | Political career
Sayeed started his political career in the 1950s in the Democratic National Conference, a splinter group of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference led by Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq. He was appointed as the district convenor of the party, which merged back into the National Conference in late 1960. In 1962, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly from Bijbehara. After G. M. Sadiq became the Chief Minister of the state in 1964, Sayeed was appointed as a Deputy Minister in his government. In January 1965, the National Conference merged into the Indian National Congress. Thus Sayeed became a member of Congress.
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed | Political party affiliations
Vishwakarma was initially serving as a teacher and then established his associations with Bhartiya Janata Party to contest 11th Lok Sabha elections. He was elected as the member of parliament and remained in office from 1996 to 1998. In 2004 Indian general election and 14th Lok Sabha, the party declined his ticket, citing "He made unsuitable efforts" during the election campaign against its official candidate Yashwant Sinha. After resigning from the party, he contested as a nonpartisan candidate but was declared "defeated".
M. L. Vishwakarma | Career
Rameshwar Singh Yadav has been a MLA for three terms. He represented the Aliganj constituency and is a member of the Samajwadi Party political party. He lost his seat in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election to Satyapal Singh Rauthar of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Rameshwar Singh Yadav | Political career
He joined the Bhartiya Janata Party in 1991. He was President of the BJP Dalit Morcha between 1998 and 2002 and President of the All-India Koli Samaj. He also served as national spokesperson of the party. He donated his ancestral home in Derapur to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Soon after joining the BJP, he contested for Ghatampur assembly constituency, but lost and later contested for Bhognipur (in 2007) (both in Uttar Pradesh) assembly constituency on the BJP ticket but lost again. In 1997, Kovind joined the protest against certain orders from the Central government that had adverse effects on the SC/ST workers.
Ram Nath Kovind | Start of political career
Mehta started his political career as a leader of the student wing. He was in charge of the Professional Cell BJYM in the national team of BJYM, BJP District General Secretary in Mumbai North West, President – Legal Cell, BJP Mumbai and is currently Secretary of BJP Mumbai. He has been closely associated with former Governor Ram Naik of Uttar Pradesh and other political leaders in the BJP such as M.P Gopal Shetty, Poonam Mahajan in the BJYM Team, former MP Kirit Somaiya during his early days of Navratri Utsavs, MLA and former Cabinet Minister Advocate Ashish Shelar, former Minister Prakash Mehta, former Minister and MLA Yogesh Sagar, MLA and former Minister Vidya Thakur, MLA Raj Purohit and Maharashtra Leader Jaiprakash Thakur.
Ameet Mehta | Political career
Anwar was elected to the Rajya Sabha as a member of Janata Dal (United) and served two terms until his expulsion from the party in September 2017. He was suspended from his party for attending a meeting of opposition parties called by Indian National Congress President Sonia Gandhi. As a result, he was expelled from Rajya Sabha. Anwar had strongly opposed the party leadership decision to break from the Mahagathbandan and instead partner with BJP. Later he became the founding member of Loktantrik Janata Dal along with Sharad Yadav parting ways from Janata Dal (United), due to its alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar.
Ali Anwar | Political career
But he lost to Datta Meghe of Indian National Congress. In 1996, he was elected to 11th Lok Sabha as BJP's candidate.
Banwarilal Purohit | Political career
Rajesh Yadav has been a MLA for two terms. He represented the Katra constituency and is a member of the Samajwadi Party political party. He lost his seat in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election to Veer Vikram Singh Prince of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Rajesh Yadav (politician) | Political career
He was a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat from 1976 to 1982. After the Indira Gandhi's Emergency, the Jana Sangh and many other opposition parties merged into the Janata Party. Advani and colleague Atal Bihari Vajpayee fought the Lok Sabha Elections of 1977 as members of the Janata Party.
L. K. Advani | Bharatiya Jana Sangh
He supports Congress Party's Ideology. It is a very astonishing fact about him whenever he is about to got a chance of being a minister is loses assembly elections.
Ramnivas Rawat | Political Views
Shah started his political career as a leader of the student wing of the RSS, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, in 1983. He joined BJP in 1987, one year before Modi joined the party. He became an activist of the BJP's youth wing, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), in 1987. He gradually rose in the BJYM hierarchy, in which he held various posts including ward secretary, taluka secretary, state secretary, vice-president and general secretary. He became known for his management skills when he was the election campaign manager for Lal Krishna Advani in Gandhinagar during the 1991 Lok Sabha elections.
Amit Shah | 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
Arelkar has been associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh since his childhood. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1989.
Rajendra Arlekar | Political career
He is a member of the Mizo National Front and has represented the Mizoram constituency in the Lok Sabha since 1999. He was a member of the following committees.
Vanlalzawma | Politics
Ram Naik was a member of the 13th Lok Sabha and was Minister of Oil and Natural Gas in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cabinet (1999–2004). He was instrumental in introducing Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme. He was the BJP candidate for elections to the 14th Lok Sabha representing Mumbai North, but lost to famous Bollywood actor Govinda, an INC candidate from Virar. A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh volunteer since childhood, he holds a law degree. He started his political career with the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1964 and was involved in organizing a group of rail commuters in Mumbai.
Ram Naik | Political career
Ramhet Bharti has been a MLA for three terms. He represented the Hargaon constituency and is a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party political party. He lost his seat in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election to Suresh Rahi of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Ramhet Bharti | Political career
After the 1998 general election, the BJP-led coalition known as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee formed a government that lasted for a year. Following fresh elections, the NDA government, again headed by Vajpayee, lasted for a full term in office; this was the first non-Congress government to do so. In the 2004 general election, the NDA suffered an unexpected defeat, and for the next ten years the BJP was the principal opposition party. Long time Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi led it to a landslide victory in the 2014 general election. Since that election, Modi has led the NDA government as Prime Minister and , the alliance governs 18 states.
Bharatiya Janata Party | Introduction
Mukesh Sharma has been a MLA for one term. He represented the Shikarpur constituency and was a member of the Samajwadi Party political party. Sharma was expelled from the SP along with his brother Bhagwan Sharma for defying the party whip by cross-voting in favor of a Bharatiya Janata Party nominee and attempted to contest with the BJP, but were denied tickets, after which, they joined the Rashtriya Lok Dal.
Mukesh Sharma | Political career
Initially he contemplated joining hands with either the BJP or the Congress Party but after considering his prospects he decided to not go with any of the national parties and instead went on to form his own party.
Pragatisheel Indira Congress | Introduction
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
Following the declaration of Modi as the head of the BJP's election campaign, Janata Dal (United) which had been a key ally of NDA for 17 years had walked out of the coalition as it feared Modi's elevation would wean away its Muslim voters. The parties in and supporting the NDA are listed below with the number of parliamentary constituencies being contested by them : In Varanasi, Modi also received support from the newly founded Bharatiya Awam Party, which aims to represents Muslim women.
Bharatiya Janata Party campaign for the 2014 Indian general election | Expansion of Alliance
First he was from Bharatiya Janata Party later join the Indian National Congress.
Vadnal Rajanna | Political party
In 2015, he formed Samras Samaj Party announced the formation of a third front known as the Socialist Secular Morcha an alliance of six parties SP, Nationalist Congress Party, Jan Adhikar Party, Samras Samaj Party, (National People's Party) and Samajwadi Janata Party. In 2017, Nagmanai joined Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Samta Party by merging his party and calling Kushwaha to be next Chief Minister of Bihar. He was named National Executive President of Rashtriya Lok Samta Party but was sacked for allegedly indulging in anti-party activities in 2019. He resigned from the party. Following which he joined the Janata Dal (United) but quit six months later.
Nagmani | Political Career
Jain joined politics as an active member of Bhartiya Janata Party in 2001. His political career till date is as follows: 2001-2002: All India Joint Convener, Doctor Cell, BJP 2002-2007: All India Convener, Doctor Cell, BJP 2007-2013: Member, National Executive, BJP Co-Incharge: 2007-2010 – Uttarakhand 2011-2013 – Jammu & Kashmir 2013–present: National Secretary, BJP Co-inchrge : Haryana
Anil Jain (Uttar Pradesh politician) | Political career
Like most politicians from Western Maharashtra, Sambhajirao has been active in the cooperative sector all his life. Early in his career he belonged to the united Congress party. Upon the split in the party in 1969, he joined the Congress(O) rather than the Congress(R) faction of prime minister Indira Gandhi. He failed in his bid to win the Baramati Lok sabha seat in the 1971 general election. In the Lok Sabha elections of 1977 after the emergency, he contested the Baramati seat again as the candidate of the opposition Janata alliance and won the seat. He lost it in the 1980 elections but regained it in the 1984 elections.
Sambhajirao Kakade | Career
He had quit from BJP, Odisha to join Uma Bharti's Bharatiya Janshakti Party on 30 April 2006. With Arabinda Dhali, a former transport and corporation minister and two-time MLA from Malkangiri district he had joined the above said party. Perhaps intervention by outside leaders in Ganjam District Organization was reason for his decision leaving the party. Later, almost after a year on 7 April 2007 he rejoined BJP, after getting absolute majority by his supports in Gram Panchayat elections in Ganjam Block.
Rama Chandra Panda | Political career
After a meeting with Narendra Modi and BJP President Mr Amit Shah on 24 June 2019, Abdullakutty was invited to join the BJP, and he formally joined BJP on 26 June 2019. Abdullakutty received the BJP membership from party working president Mr. J.P. Nadda, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr.V. Muraleedharan, Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Minister of Steel, Mr. Bhupender Yadav Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha and National General Secretary of the BJP, Mr. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP (Upper house) and the vice-chairman of the Kerala wing of Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was among those present to greet him.
A. P. Abdullakutty | Early life and politics
Amit Gaurav has been a MLA for one term. He represented the Marhara constituency and is a member of the Samajwadi Party political party. and his closely person is Shri satyapal singh yadav (Nagla jawahari).
Amit Gaurav | Political career
Aneesurrehman has been a MLA for one term and represents the Kanth constituency. He is a member of the Peace Party of India political party. He lost his seat in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election to Rajesh Kumar Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Aneesurrehman | Political career
It was observed by Mr. Narendra Modi and he picked him up. Mr. Sahani started campaigning for BJP. Finally, BJP won 2014 Lok Sabha Election. However, Mr. Sahani left BJP because they did not deliver the promise of approving his community in Schedule Caste category. Later he founded a Sangh named as [Nishad Vikas Sangh] in 2015. In 2018, he formed a party as well with the name of Vikassheel Insaan Party. The party was approved on 26 July 2018. The VIP Party of Sahani contested in 2019 General Elections as an alliance in the Mahagathbandhan or the Grand Alliance.
Mukesh Sahani | Political career
Rashtriya Samaj Paksha joined NDA in January 2014. So in General Election 2014,Rashtriya Samaj Paksha fought with NDA along with its allies BJP, Republican Party of India (Athvale) and Swabhimani Shetkari Saghtana
Rashtriya Samaj Paksha | Lok Sabha Election 2014
Patel nevertheless contested the Bindki seat in 2002 on behalf of the Lok Janshakti Party, but finished third. For the 2007 and 2012 Assembly elections, he was the BJP candidate from Bindki, but lost on both occasions to Sukhdev Prasad Verma of the BSP. He did not contest the 2017 election.
Rajendra Singh Patel | Introduction
He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1999 and went on to become that party's national executive member. In 2003 he was reelected to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly as the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Dimapur-I constituency. He became leader of the BJP's legislature party and chairman of the ruling Democratic Alliance of Nagaland with Neiphiu Rio as Chief Minister. He authored "The Emergence of Nagaland" in 1986.
Hokishe Sema | Association with the Bharatiya Janata Party
Ramkhiladi Singh Yadav has been a MLA for three terms. He represented the Gunnaur constituency and is a member of the Samajwadi Party political party. He lost his seat in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election to Ajeet Kumar of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Ramkhiladi Singh Yadav | Political career
In 2000, late Ram Vilas Paswan formed the Lok Janshakti Party as its president. Along with Paswan his brother, Ram Chandra Paswan, Capt. Jai Narain Prasad Nishad and Ramesh Jigajinagi also joined the party. LJP contested the polls in alliance with the Indian National Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal and won four Lok Sabha seats. Ram Vilas Paswan remained a Union Minister in Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers and Ministry of Steel. In the 2005 Bihar assembly polls held in February the party contested in alliance with the Congress and against the RJD and won 29 assembly seats. However no alliance could secure majority and party refused to give support to any alliance to form the Government.
Lok Janshakti Party | History
But his stars changed as he was the 1st to grasp the Modi wave in the year 2013 among all other congress leaders like Rao Inderjeet, Ch Birender, Kuldeep Bishnoi and joined the BJP. He was the dark horse in the competition to get the BJP ticket but luck always stood by his side and he was given ticket and he defeated Jagbir Malik of congress in the 2014 parliamentary elections. Again in the year 2019 people were considering him out of race of ticket as he was not CM's favourite in Sonipat constituency but relations, networking and luck worked in his favour and he got the most coveted BJP ticket.
Ramesh Chander Kaushik | Established Political Career
Navin Jaiswal is a member of Legislative Assembly of Jharkhand state, India. He represents Hatia Assembly seat as its MLA. He was member of All Jharkhand Students Union then shifting to Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) in November 2014. In February 2015, Jaiswal was one of the six MLA who joined the BJP, a day after petitioning the Speaker to allow them to sit alongside the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition members in the state Assembly.
Navin Jaiswal | Introduction
He started his political career as a worker for the Jan Sangh, of which was he was a founder member, in 1960s. In 1975, the Jan Sangh-Congress(O) coalition came to power in Gujarat. After the emergency, he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Rajkot constituency in 1977. Later, he resigned and joined Babubhai Patel's Janata Morcha government as an agriculture minister from 1978 to 1980. He was then involved in relief work following 1979 Machchhu dam failure which devastated Morbi. He won assembly elections from Kalavad, Gondal and Visavadar between 1978 and 1995. In 1980, when Jan Sangh was dissolved, he became a senior organiser of the newly-formed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Keshubhai Patel | Political career
He was a member of Bahujan Samaj Party and served as it's State Vice-President. He lost in 2009 Indian general elections and later joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014. He won the 2014 Indian general election as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. He is also a former National Vice-President of BJP Scheduled Caste Morcha and General Secretary of BJP - Bihar unit.
Janak Ram | Politics