Bhupinder Singh Hooda is presently the Chief Minister of Haryana. On 5th March, 2005, he took the oath as the Chief Minister of Haryana. He was born on 15th September 1947 in Sanghi in the Rohtak district of Haryana. He is a graduate in Arts and acquired his LL.B.degree. On 15 October 1976 he married Asha Hooda and has one son and one daughter. Bhupinder Singh Hooda was associated with various movements led by farmers [...]
The former head of the Special Protection Group, and an IPS officer, Mr. Bharat Vir Wanchoo became the governor of Goa on May 4 2012. He replaced K Sankaranarayanan, the governor of Maharashtra, who held the additional charge. Service background Mr Wanchoo, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1976 batch was from the West Bengal cadre. He has served as Joint Director with the Intelligence Bureau and was the founder member of the [...]
Balram Jakhar is a prominent name in the Indian political scenario. He is a an eminent Parliamentarian and the Governor of Madhya Pradesh since 2004. He was born to Chaudhari Rajaram Jakhar and Patodevi Jakhar in the Panchkosi village of Ferozepur district, Punjab on August 23,1923. He studied in Foreman Christian College in Lahore and got a degree in Sanskrit in 1945. He married Rameshwari Devi and they have three sons and two daughters. Balram [...]
Bal Thackeray was an Indian politician and founder of the Shiv Sena, a right-wing Hindu Nationalist and ethnocentric party, active in Maharashtra. Thackeray was born on January 23rd 1926. His father was Keshav Sitaram Thackeray, who was a social activist and writer and was part of the United Maharashtra Movement in the 1950’s. Thackeray began his career as a cartoonist with the English Daily, The Free Press Journal, but left it to start his own [...]
Shri Basappa Danappa Jatti, the former Vice-President (1974-1980) of India, was born in Bijapur district of Karnataka on September 10, 1912. After completing his Law graduation from Sykes Law College, Kolhapur, B D Jatti did his legal practice as an advocate for a very short span of time in his home town Jamakhandi. In 1940, he entered in politics as a Municipality member at Jamakhandi and finally was elected as a member of the Jamakhandi [...]
B.C.Khanduri is the Chief minister of Uttarakhand. He was sworn in as the Chief Minister of the state by Governor Sudarshan Aggarwal on March 8, 2007. He was also a former Union Minister of India. B.C.Khanduri was born on 1st October 1934 at Dehradun (Uttaranchal) to Late Shri Jai Ballabh Khanduri and Late Smt. Durga Devi Khanduri. He married Smt. Aruna Khanduri and has one son and one daughter. He was educated at Allahabad University, [...]
Lal Thanhawla became the Chief Minister of the northeastern state of Mizoram on December11, 2008. He belongs to the Indian National Congress party and contested the 2008 Assembly elections from two constituencies-Serchchip and South Tuipui. He was elected from both. Background He was born on May 19, 1942 in Durtlang, Aizawl. His father was (late) Shri H P Sailo and his mother is Smt Lalsawmliani Chawngthu. Mr Thanhawla attended the Scottish Church College of the [...]
About Lal Krishna Advani is a renowned Indian politician and former President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is also a former Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister to the Government of India during 1998-2004. He was the Opposition Leader in the 10th and 14th Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament. Personal Life L.K. Advani was born on November 8, 1927 in Karachi (in present-day Pakistan) to Kishanchand D Advani and Gyani Devi. [...]
Lal Bahadur Shastri, a man of actions, was the second Prime Minister of India and a leader of the Indian National Congress party. He joined the post on 9 June 1964, after the death of Jawaharlal Nehru. Born in 1904 in Mughalsarai, Uttar Pradesh as Lal Bahadur Srivastava, he was brought up at his maternal grandfather’s house till the age of ten. As a boy he was fond of reading books of Guru Nanak Dev. [...]
About Dr. Kumar Vishwas is a professor, poet and political leader. He has been significant in unifying Indian youngsters to fight against corruption. He is famous as a close aide to Arvind Kejriwal, the party leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). In the Lok Sabha election 2014, Vishwas, as a candidate of the AAP, had contested from the parliamentary constituency of Amethi against the Vice-President of the Congress party Rahul Gandhi and the BJP [...]