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Asaduddin Owaisi (born 13 May 1969) is an Indian politician who is serving as the third and current president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) since 2008. He is a five time Member of Parliament representing the Hyderabad constituency in Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. Born to the Owaisi family in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, Asaduddin Owaisi was trained as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn in London, England. He assumed leadership of the AIMIM upon the death of his father Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi in 2008. He has been…
Haradanahalli Devegowda Kumaraswamy (born 16 December 1959) is an Indian politician and film producer who is serving as the 21st Minister of Heavy Industries and 14th Minister of Steel of India since 2024. He also served as the 12th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 2018 to 2019 and previously from 2006 to 2007. He was also the leader of the opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from 2013 to 2014. He is currently the president of the Karnataka State Janata Dal (Secular). He is a member of Lok Sabha, having been elected from Mandya and the…
Nara Lokesh (born 23 January 1983) is an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister for Information Technology, Electronics and Communications, Real Time Governance and Human Resources Development in the Government of Andhra Pradesh. He is also the National working President of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). He is the son of N. Chandrababu Naidu, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and President of the TDP. He previously served as the Minister for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, and Information Technology, Electronics and Communications…
Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao (born 24 July 1976), commonly known as KTR , is an Indian politician and Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Telangana Legislative Assembly. He is a former Minister for Panchayat Raj, Municipal Administration and Urban Development, Industries and Information Technology and Communications of Telangana. He represents Sircilla assembly constituency in the Telangana Legislative Assembly, he is also the working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi. [3] [4] [5] He is the son of K. Chandrashekar Rao, former Chief Minister of…
Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (born 17 February 1954), commonly known as KCR , is an Indian politician currently representing the Gajwel Assembly constituency and who is first Chief Minister of Telangana who served for almost ten years. He is the founding leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, a state party in India. [6] [7] serving as the third leader of the opposition in the Telangana Legislative Assembly from 2023. [8] [9] [10] He is also the father of politicians Kalvakuntla Kavitha and K.Taraka Rama Rao. Early life Rao was born to Ragava Rao and…
Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy (born 21 December 1972), also known mononymously as Jagan , is an Indian politician and a Member of Legislative Assembly representing Pulivendula Assembly constituency in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative assembly. He previously served as the 17th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. He is the founding president of YSR Congress Party. He is also the son of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and Y. S. Vijayamma. He is also the brother of APCC president Y. S. Sharmila. Jagan Mohan Reddy started…
Konidela Pawan Kalyan [5] (born Konidela Kalyan Kumar ; [8] 2 September 1971) [2] is an Indian politician, actor, philanthropist, and martial artist serving as the 11th Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh since June 2024. He also serves as the Minister for Panchayat Raj, Rural Development and Rural Water Supply; Environment, Forest, Science and Technology in the Government of Andhra Pradesh as MLA representing the Pithapuram constituency. He is the founder and president of the Janasena Party. He is among the highest-paid actors in Indian cinema and…
Nara Chandrababu Naidu (Telugu pronunciation: [ˈnɑːrɑː ˈtʃʌnˌdrɑː ˈbɑːbuː ˈnaɪduː]; born 20 April 1950), commonly known as CBN , is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh since 2024. He holds the record of longest-serving Chief Minister in the political history of Telugu states. He is the national president of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). In 1978, he was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Indian National Congress party, and from 1980 to 1982, he served as a minister in the state…
Kunnummal Surendran (born 10 March 1970) is an Indian politician from the state of Kerala. He served as the 11th President of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state. [1] Early life K. Surendran was born to Kunjiraman and Kalyani Amma, into a Thiyyar family, the largest Hindu community in Kerala, on 10 March 1970 in Ulliyeri Kozhikode district in Kerala, India. [2] He earned a B.Sc. Chemistry from Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Kozhikode. He started his political career through Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of the RSS. During…
Gaurav Gogoi (born 4 September 1982) is an Indian politician from Assam who, since 2024, has served as the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha from the Indian National Congress, and, as the Member of Parliament for Jorhat Lok Sabha Constituency. [2] He was elected President of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee in 2025. [3] He was the deputy leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party from 2020 to 2024. He represented Kaliabor in the Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2024. Gogoi is the son of Tarun Gogoi, who was the Chief Minister of Assam from 2001…
Annamalai Kuppusamy (born Siva Senthil Kumar ; 4 June 1984), [1] commonly known as K. Annamalai , is an Indian politician and former Indian Police Service officer employed with the Karnataka State Police from 2011 until his resignation in 2019. A former member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he served as the state president of the BJP - Tamil Nadu from July 2021 to April 2025, during which he became known for rising visibility and prominence of the party in the state. [5] He unsuccessfully contested the 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election…
Ottakarathevar Panneerselvam (born 14 January 1951), popularly known as O. Panneerselvam or OPS , is an Indian politician who was the former 6th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in December 2016 and previously from 2001 to 2002 and from 2014 to 2015. He also served as the deputy chief minister from 2017 to 2021 in the Edappadi K. Palaniswami-led government. As a finance minister, he has presented the state budget of Tamil Nadu 11 times. [3] Paneerselvam joined the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in 1973. He was a loyalist of former chief…
Pinarayi Vijayan (Malayalam: [piɳɐraːji ʋid͡ʒɐjɐn]; born 24 May 1945) is an Indian politician who served as the 12th Chief Minister of Kerala from 25 May 2016 to 18 May 2026. He is the current Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly. [11] A member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), he is the longest-serving secretary of the Kerala State Committee of the CPI(M) (1998–2015). He has also served as Minister of Electric Power and Co-operatives during the third E. K. Nayanar ministry. Vijayan won a seat in…
Edappadi Karuppa Palaniswami, popularly known as EPS (born 12 May 1954), is an Indian politician who served as the seventh chief minister of Tamil Nadu from 2017 to 2021. He has been the general secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) since 28 March 2023. Previously, he has served in various leadership roles in the AIADMK since 2016. Born in 1954 in Salem district in the erstwhile Madras State, Palaniswami was engaged in agriculture before joining electoral politics in 1974. He has represented Edappadi since 2011 as Member of the…
Udhayanidhi Stalin (born 27 November 1977) is an Indian politician and former actor who has been the 19th incumbent Leader of the Opposition in Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly since May 2026. He also served as the third Deputy Chief minister of Tamil Nadu from 2024 to 2026. Udhayanidhi is the son of M. K. Stalin, the ninth Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. He is the third and the youngest to hold the position of deputy chief minister of the state. Udhayanidhi served as the Minister of Youth Welfare and Sports Development from December 2022 to May 2026.…
Champai Soren [1] (born 1 November 1956) is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Chief Minister of Jharkhand from 2 February 2024 to 3 July 2024, [2] following the arrest of former Chief Minister Hemant Soren by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on allegations of money laundering. [3] [4] [5] He served as a cabinet minister under Hemant Soren both before and after his tenure as Chief Minister. [6] [7] Early life and education Soren was born in Jilinggora village in Seraikela Kharsawan district. [8] He is a tribal leader and his father Simal Soren…
Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin [1] (born 1 March 1953) is an Indian politician and statesman who served as the eighth chief minister of Tamil Nadu from 2021 to 2026. [2] He became president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on 28 August 2018, after serving as the party's working president from January 2017 to August 2018. Stalin is the third son of former Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi. He completed his education at Presidency College, Madras, in 1973. He began his political career in the late 1960s and was elected to the DMK's general…
Hemant Soren (born 10 August 1975) is an Indian politician currently officiating as the fifth Chief Minister of Jharkhand. As the president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), he has led the state government during three distinct periods: from 2013 to 2014, 2019 to early 2024, and resuming in July 2024. Following a coalition victory in the 2024 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly elections, he retained his position as the state's premier. In the state assembly, Soren has been the elected representative for the Barhait constituency since 2014, having…
Lalu Prasad Yadav [2] (born 11 June 1948 [1] ) is an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Bihar from 1990 to 1997, with a brief interruption in 1995, and as the union minister for Railways from 2004 to 2009. He is the founding president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), a prominent political party in Bihar. [3] [4] [5] He is also a former member of Parliament (MP) of the Lok Sabha [6] and Rajya Sabha. His political rise in the 1990s marked a significant shift in Bihar's social and political landscape. He entered politics at Patna…
Samrat Choudhary [2] (born 16 November 1968) is an Indian politician who is serving as the 24th Chief Minister of Bihar since 15 April 2026. [3] He has been a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly representing Tarapur Assembly constituency since 2025 and previously served as deputy chief minister of Bihar in the Nitish Kumar government from 2024 to 2026. Choudhary is the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member to serve as Chief Minister of Bihar. He was previously associated with Rashtriya Janata Dal and Janata Dal (United). [4] Choudhary was also…