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. [...]
Jagannath Pahadia is a senior Congress politician. He has been the Governor of Haryana and Bihar, a Union Minister, and the Chief Minister of Rajasthan. Background He was born on 15 January 1932 in village Bhusawar in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan. His father, an agriculturist by profession, was Shri Nathilal Pahadia and his mother was Smt Chanda Devi. Mr Pahadia , who also lists agriculture as his profession, has an MA and an LLB degree. [...]
Indira Gandhi, the first and the only female Prime Minister of India, was born on 19th November 1917. She was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, and Kamala Nehru. As a child of a freedom fighter she was also involved in India’s freedom struggle. She organized the Vanar Sena of boys and girls who used to help in the circulation of messages and banned publications of the members of the [...]
Inder Kumar Gujral served as the Prime Minister of India from 21 April 1997 to 19 March 1998. Born on 4 December 1919, in Jhelum, Pakistan, he actively participated in India’s freedom struggle. He served as India’s ambassador to Russia. Gujral left the Congress Party in the mid-1980s to join the Janata Dal. After the 1989 elections, he served as the Minister of External Affairs in V.P.Singh’s ministry. One of the main issues during his [...]
Ghulam Nabi Azad is a politician and a senior leader of Indian National Congress. He was born on 7th March 1949 in a village Soti in Doda district of Kashmir. In 1972, he passed his M.Sc degree in Zoology from Kashmir University. He is married to Shrimati Shameem Dev Azad and has a son and a daughter. In 1973, Ghulam Nabi Azad actively participated in politics and from 1973 to 1975 he was the Block [...]
Madan Mohan Malaviya Born on December 25, 1861, in an educated orthodox Hindu family, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya was a freedom fighter, an educationist and a social reformer with a vision of independent and self-reliant India. Apart from holding the post of the President of Indian National Congress, he represented India along with Mahatma Gandhi at the First Round Table Conference In 1931. Founder of the prestigious Banaras Hindu University (BHU) at Varanasi, he was [...]
About Meira Kumar Meira Kumar, United Progressive Alliance’s nominee for President of India in the 2017 election, has been a five-time member of the Parliament during her political career. Kumar also holds the honour of being the first woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha during the period 2009-2014. A lawyer by profession and also a former diplomat, the 72-year old Meira Kumar has served as a Cabinet Minister in the Ministry of Social Justice and [...]
Mala Sinha is popular Indian actress of the sixties and early seventies. She married C.P. Lohani and has a daughter Pratibha Sinha, an aspiring actress of Bollywood. She was born on 11th November 1936 at Kolkata, West Bengal. In 1952, she was given a break by Ardhendu Bose, a notable Bengali film director in the film Roshanara (1952). She acted in a couple of Bengali films in Calcutta. She went to Bombay to shoot for [...]
Rahul Bajaj is the Chairman and Managing Director of the Bajaj group, which has been named amongst India’s top ten business groups. He is one of India’s renowned industrialists and is internationally respected for his business expertise and entrepreneurial character. He comes from the family of Jaman Lal Bajaj. Rahul is the grandson of Jaman Lal Bajaj, who founded the Bajaj Group. Shishir Bajaj is the brother of Rahul Bajaj. He has two sons, Rajiv [...]
