Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Vallabhbhai Patel (31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950), commonly known as Sardar Patel , [1] was a Gandhian Indian independence activist, lawyer and statesman who served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India from 1947 to 1950. He was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress, who played a significant role in the Indian independence movement and India's political integration. [4] In India and elsewhere, he was often called Sardar meaning "chief". He acted as the Home Minister during the political integration of India and the…
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Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh [1] (26 September 1932 – 26 December 2024) was an Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and statesman who served as the prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Narendra Modi. [2] A member of the Indian National Congress, Singh was the first and remains the only Sikh prime minister of India. [3] He was also the first prime minister since Nehru to be re-appointed after completing a full five-year term. [4] [5] Born in Gah in what is today…
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Sonia Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi (Hindi: [ˈsoːnɪjaː ˈɡaːndʱiː], Italian: [ˈsɔːnja ˈɡandi]; née Maino [ˈmaino]; born 9 December 1946) is an Indian politician. She is the longest-serving president of the Indian National Congress, a big-tent liberal political party, which has governed India for most of its post-independence history. She took over as the party leader in 1998, seven years after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, her husband and a former Prime Minister of India, and remained in office until 2017 after serving for twenty-two years. [1] She returned to the post as…
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Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi [2] [1] (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) [3] was an Indian aircraft pilot and politician who served as the prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989 for two terms. He took office after the assassination of his mother, then–prime minister Indira Gandhi, to become the youngest Indian prime minister at the age of 40. He served until his defeat at the 1989 election, and then became Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, resigning in December 1990, six months before his own assassination. Gandhi was not related to Mahatma Gandhi. Instead, he…
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru [1] (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, [8] secular humanist, [9] social democrat, [10] and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a principal leader of the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India's independence in 1947, he served as the country's first prime minister, holding office for 16 years and 286 days. [11] Nehru promoted parliamentary democracy, secularism, and science and technology during the 1950s,…
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian statesman and a poet who served as prime minister of India, from 1998 to 2004, and previously for two weeks in 1996. [2] [3] He was the first non-Congress prime minister to serve a full term in the office. Vajpayee was one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a volunteer and full-time functionary ( pracharak ) [4] of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary volunteer organisation. Vajpayee combined…
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Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi [1] (née Nehru ; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) [3] was an Indian stateswoman who twice served as the Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India's first and only female prime minister, and a central figure in Indian politics as the leader of the Indian National Congress (INC). Gandhi also served as chairperson of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) from 1983 to 1984, becoming the first Indian to hold the position. She was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the…
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Pramod Sawant
Pramod Pandurang Sawant (born 24 April 1973) is an Indian politician and former ayurveda medical practitioner [1] who has served as the 11th chief minister of Goa since March 2019. [2] He represents the Sanquelim constituency in the Goa Legislative Assembly as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party since 2012. [3] Early life and education Pramod Pandurang Sawant was born on 24 April 1973 in Pali-Kothambi, Goa, to Pandurang Sawant. [4] [5] He obtained a Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery degree from the Ganga Education Society's Ayurvedic Medical…
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Lalduhoma
Lalduhoma (alternatively spelled Lalduhawma ; [1] born 22 February 1949) [2] is an Indian politician who serves as the Chief Minister of Mizoram. Formerly an Indian Police Service officer, he resigned from the security service to the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and was elected as Member of Parliament to the Lok Sabha from Mizoram and President of the Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (a branch of the Indian National Congress) in 1984. He however left the party from which he was elected two years later, for which he was disqualified from the…
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Manik Saha
Manik Saha (born 8 January 1953) is an Indian politician serving as the Chief Minister of Tripura and leader of the house in the Tripura Legislative Assembly. [1] [2] He has represented the Town Bordowali Assembly constituency in the Tripura Legislative Assembly since 26 June 2022. He was also a member of the Rajya Sabha from Tripura in 2022 until he became Chief Minister, and the President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Tripura from 2020 to 2022. He has been a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party since 2016 and was a member of the Indian National Congress…
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N. Biren Singh
Nongthombam Biren Singh (Meitei pronunciation: /nōng-thōm-bam bī-ren sīng/; born 1 January 1961) [4] is an Indian politician, former footballer, and journalist who served as the 12th Chief Minister of Manipur from 2017 to 2025 as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He has represented the Heingang Assembly constituency in the Manipur Legislative Assembly since 2002. Besides being the chairman of Shree Govindaji Temple Board, [5] [6] he is the first incumbent Chief Minister who serves as the president of the Lainingthou Sanamahi Temple Board (LSTB),…
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Pema Khandu
Pema Khandu (born 21 August 1979) is an Indian politician who is serving as the 9th and current Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh since 2016, as well as serving as leader of the house in the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He is the son of former Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu. Since assuming the office of the Chief Minister in July 2016, he and his government have twice changed their party affiliation; in September 2016 from the Indian National Congress to the People's Party of Arunachal, [3] and then in December 2016 to the Bharatiya Janata…
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Conrad Sangma
Conrad Kongkal Sangma (born 27 January 1978) is an Indian politician and Chief Minister of Meghalaya since 2018. [1] He is the national president of the National People's Party. His father, P. A. Sangma, was former Chief Minister and former Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Conrad Sangma was also a Member of Parliament from Tura (2016–2018). [2] He has been representing the South Tura constituency since 2018 and had represented Selsella constituency from 2008 to 2013. Sangma was also Minister of Finance, Power and Tourism, Government of Meghalaya from 2008 to…
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Neiphiu Rio
Neiphiu Rio (born 11 November 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the chief minister of Nagaland and leader of the house in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly since 2018. Previously serving from 2003 to 2014, he is the longest serving Chief Minister of Nagaland. He was also a Member of Parliament from Nagaland in Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2018. He is also currently serving as the president of the Naga People's Front. Early life and education Neiphiu Rio was born on 11 November 1950 to an Angami Naga family from Tuophema. His parents were Guolhoulie and…
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Prem Singh Tamang
Prem Singh Tamang (born 5 February 1968), better known as P. S. Golay , [2] is an Indian politician and former teacher who is serving as the Chief Minister of Sikkim from 27 May 2019 and also as leader of the house in state assembly. He is also the founding leader of the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha since 2019. He represents the Poklok-Kamrang in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly since 2019, Upper Burtuk from 2009 to 2019 and Chakung from 1994 to 2009. Before forming the SKM party, he was a key member of the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) Party. [2] [3]…
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Pushkar Singh Dhami
Pushkar Singh Dhami (born 16 September 1975) is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, serving as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand since 4 July 2021, who is also the longest serving chief minister for the state. He has represented the Champawat Assembly constituency in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly since 2022 and represented Khatima from 2012 to 2022. He lost his seat in the 2022 elections, but was re-elected as Chief Minister by BJP MLAs. He was later elected to Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly following a by-election.…
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Manoj Sinha
Manoj Sinha (born 1 July 1959) is an Indian politician serving as the 2nd and the current lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. [1] [2] He served as the minister of state for Communications (independent charge) and minister of state for Railways in the government of India. Sinha was elected to the Lok Sabha, representing Ghazipur parliamentary constituency for three terms from the Bharatiya Janata Party. [3] [4] Sinha was in the race for the post of Uttar Pradesh chief minister after the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative…
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Farooq Abdullah
Farooq Abdullah (born 21 October 1937) a Pro-Pakistani Anti-Indian Kashmiri Muslim politician and physician. [2] He serves as current president of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference. He has served as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on several occasions since 1982 till 2002, and as the union minister for New and Renewable Energy between 2009 and 2014. His father Sheikh Abdullah was the 1st elected chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. He is the father of Omar Abdullah who is current chief minister of chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. Early…
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Mehbooba Mufti
Mehbooba Mufti Sayed (born 22 May 1959) is an Indian politician and leader of the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (PDP). She served as the 9th chief minister of the erstwhile state Jammu and Kashmir from 4 April 2016 to 19 June 2018. Mufti was the first woman to hold the office of chief minister in the Jammu and Kashmir. [3] She formed a coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir jointly with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The coalition was termed as "Himalayan blunder" by the Indian National Congress. She resigned in June 2018 after the…
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Omar Abdullah
Omar Abdullah [4] (born 10 March 1970) is an Indian politician serving as the chief minister of union territory of Jammu and Kashmir since 2024 and also as the leader of the house in J&K Legislative Assembly. He had previously served as the 8th chief minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir between 2009 and 2014, and is the current vice president of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, a position he has held since 2009 and also previously served as its president. Abdullah also served as a member of parliament in the Lok Sabha from 1998 to 2009,…
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