Prem Kumar Dhumal was the 12th and former Chief Minister of the state of Himachal Pradesh , representing the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), from 30 December 2007 to 20 December 2012. This was the second time he was elected as Chief Minister of the state; the first time was from March 1998 to March 2003. Born on April 10th 1944 in Samirpur to Capt. Mahant Ram and Phulmu Devi, Dhumal has a post-graduate degree in [...]
Born on 19th December 1934, Pratibha Devisingh Patil is an Indian politician and was the 12th President of India and the first woman to hold this esteemed position. She was sworn in as President on 25 July 2007 and retired in 25 July 2012. As a member of the Indian National Congress, she was nominated for the post of president by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and Indian Left. Pratibha Patil was born in Nadgaon, [...]
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th president of India. He served the office from 2012-17. In his political career of about 50 years, he has occupied numerous ministerial portfolios. Before being elected as a president, he was considered the top troubleshooter of the Congress party. He also served as Union Finance Minister from the year 2009 to 2012. Pranab Mukherjee is the son of Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee, a freedom fighter, a member of AICC and [...]
The young Turk of the BJP, Pramod Mahajan lived a life less ordinary and so was his death. Born on 30 October 1949 in Mahbubnagar, Andhra Pradesh, he was one of the most important second-generation leaders in the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP). Mahajan was seen by many as the emerging leader of the BJP and tipped to be Prime Ministerial material.He was credited with leading the BJP to numerous poll victories. However, he faced much flak [...]
Pawan Kumar Chamling has been the Chief Minister of Sikkim for four consecutive terms. He was elected in 2009 for the fourth time from Damthang/Poklok Kamrang constituency. He belongs to the Sikkim Democratic front, a party he formed in 1993. As Chief Minister he has been committed to the welfare of the rural poor. Among his more popular attempts, he has encouraged family planning, has reserved 50% jobs for women, and provided free education in [...]
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 [...]
Palaniappan Chidambaram is a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and a former Union Minister of Finance of India. A lawyer by profession, he has also served as the Home Affairs Minister for three years. He was born on 16th September 1945 in Kanadukathan in the Sivaganga District, Tamil Nadu and has two brothers and one sister. He is married to Nalini Chidambaram and has a son, Karti P. Chidambaram, who is also a [...]
Born on 1st September 1947 in the Indian state of Meghalaya, Mr. Purno Agitok Sangma is the current representative of the Tura constituency in the west Garo Hills district in the eighth Meghalaya Legislative Assembly. He was the ex-Chief Minister of Meghalaya and former speaker of Lok Sabha. As a co-founder of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), he stayed a member of the Lok Sabha for eight terms. Sangma is a man of many roles; [...]
About Oommen Chandy Oommen Chandy is a two-time former Chief Minister of Kerala. He belongs to the Congress Party. He served as the Chief Minister of the state from 2004 to 2006 and 2011 to 2016 and has been a member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly for over forty years. As Chief Minister, in a bid to enforce transparency of his office, he initiated the live web streaming of his office and meeting chamber. The [...]
Omar Abdullah became the eleventh and the youngest Chief Minister of the northern state of Jammu &Kashmir on January 5, 2009. Omar Abdullah, the president of the National Conference party formed a government in coalition with the Congress party. He belongs to a prominent Kashmiri political family and has served as a Union Minister of State for External affairs in the NDA government of Prime Minister A B Vajpayee in 2001. Omar Abdullah was elected [...]
