Arvind Kejriwal is the present Chief Minister of Delhi. He is also one of the most controversial and popular figures of contemporary Indian politics, having gained prominence in 2012 from Jan Lok Pal Bill Andolan with Anna Hazare. Within such a short span of time, he has generated tremendous discussion after becoming the Chief Minister of Delhi thrice and resigning within 50 days in support of the Jan Lokpal Bill during his first term as [...]
Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yeddyurappa is an Indian politician who recently sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka on 17 May 2018. He is the state president of BJP for Karnataka state, the largest legislative party in the state that won 104 seats in the 2018 assembly elections. He is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India and represents the Shimoga constituency. B S Yeddyurappa Background Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yeddyurappa was born on 27 February 1943 [...]
Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda is a politician who served as the 11th Prime Minister of the country. He held the office from 1 June 1996 to 21 April 1997. Prior to that, he served as the 14th Chief Minister of Karnataka during the period- 1994 to 1996. Currently, he is the member of Lok Sabha and represents Hassan constituency of Karnataka. He is also the present National President of the Janata Dal (Secular) party. Early [...]
A brilliant leader and taskmaster of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Vijay Ramniklal Rupani is the incumbent Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat. His passion for politics is unsurpassed as he has contributed significantly to the political arena since his school days. He has traversed innumerable stages of the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)- From being an ABVP activist to Rajya Sabha Member, MLA, Cabinet Minister to become the 16th Chief Minister of Gujarat. Family Background The [...]
About Mamata Banerjee born on 5 January 1955 in Kolkata, is the current Chief Minister of West Bengal and the first woman to hold the office. Popularly known as “Didi”, Banerjee is the chairperson of All India Trinamool Congress Party which she founded in 1997 after splitting from the Indian National Congress. She served as Minister of Coal, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Department of Women and Child [...]
Nara Chandrababu Naidu is the first CM of Andhra Pradesh after its division. He is holding the position since 2014. He also served as the CM for the united AP from 1994 to 2004. Currently, he is the president of Telugu Desam Party(TDP). He led his party to a thumping victory in the 2014 assembly elections, with the TDP winning 102 of the 175 assembly seats. In the Lok Sabha polls too, the TDP-BJP combine [...]
Parkash Singh Badal Biography The ninety one year old Parkash Singh Badal was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Punjab from 1970 to 1971, from 1977 to 1980, from 1997 to 2002 and from 2002 to 2017. He has previously been the Chief Minister for short spells in the seventies and a longer time in the nineties. He served as Union Minister in the Morarji Desai Government in the seventies. The veteran politician belongs [...]
Arjun Munda is the former Chief Minister of Jharkhand and a former Member of Parliament to the 15th Lok Sabha. Mr. Munda began his political career in the 1980’s as a teenager with the Jharkhand Movement, headed by the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. The idea behind this movement was to create a tribal state in the southern area of the Bihar state. Munda’s popularity grew from his helping tribes and other backward communities and in 1995 [...]
Late Update – 10 July, 2019 ***** Akhilesh Yadav Political Profile Akhilesh Yadav, who at the age of 38, is the youngest Chief Minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and was sworn into this office in March 2012. Yadav was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kannauj in 2000 and has won the Lok Sabha elections three times, hence leading the campaign to bring back to power the Samajwadi Party in UP in [...]
Biju Patnaik or Bijayananda Patnaik was born in Cuttack, Orissa on March 5, 1916. After studying Aeronautics at the Aeronautical Training Institute of India, he started his career with Indian National Airways. He was imprisoned until 1945 due to his participation in the Quit India Movement. He had also plunged headlong into the Nepalese Democratic Movement and Indonesia’s struggle for independence from the Dutch. He flew out the then Indonesian Prime Minister Sultan Sjahrir to [...]
