Laxmi Mall Singhvi was an Indian jurist,parliamentarian,scholar,writer and diplomat. He was,after V. K. Krishna Menon,the second-longest-serving High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom (1991–97). He was conferred with a Padma Bhushan in 1998.
Colonel Dhani Ram Shandil (Retd.) is an Indian politician from Himachal Pradesh. He is a member of the Indian National Congress political party.
Harsh Mahajan,son of a former Vidhan Sabha Speaker and Cabinet Minister Des Raj Mahajan and was born at Chamba on 12 December 1955. Completed schooling from St. Edwards School in 1971. He has a B. Com. and MBA. He studied at Sriram College of Commerce,New Delhi and at Delhi University,New Delhi. He married Uma Singh on 7 June 1983.
Satish Chandra Mishra is an Indian politician who was the cabinet minister in Mayawati ministry in Uttar Pradesh,India,and a part of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). He is a lawyer by profession. He was a member of Rajya Sabha until 2 April 2022.
Kancherla Keshava Rao,popularly known as KK,is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress party. He is a member of the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Rao was first elected to Rajya Sabha in 2006,serving until 2012,and was re-elected in 2014 representing Andhra Pradesh. Despite being from Telangana he was assigned to Andhra Pradesh because of the lot method used to assign Rajya Sabha members for the newly created Telangana and residual Andhra Pradesh. In 2020,he was again re-elected for a six-year term representing Telangana.
Gongalla Sanjeeva Reddy a politician and artist from Indian National Congress party is an ex-Member of the Parliament of India who represented Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
Anand Sharma is an Indian politician and former Union Cabinet Minister in charge of Commerce and Industry and Textiles in the Government of India. Since June 2014,Sharma was the Deputy Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament until 2022.
Suresh Pachouri is an Indian politician and current member of Bharatiya Janata Party from Madhya Pradesh. He had served as union minister of state in the Ministry of Defence (1995-1996) and in the Ministry of Personnel,Public Grievances and Pensions and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (2004-2008) in the Government of India.
Prithviraj Chavan is an Indian politician who was the 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2010 to 2014. Chavan is a graduate of BITS Pilani and University of California,Berkeley in mechanical engineering. He spent time working in the field of aircraft instrumentation and designing audio recorders for anti-submarine warfare in the US before returning to India and becoming an entrepreneur in 1974. Referred to in the media as a technocrat with a clean,non-controversial image,a low-profile leader. Chavan served as the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Personnel,Public Grievances,and Pensions. Chavan was also General Secretary of the All-India Congress Committee (AICC),in-charge of many states,including Jammu and Kashmir,Karnataka,Haryana,Gujarat,Tripura,and Arunachal Pradesh.
B. S. Gnanadesikan was a Sr. Vice President of Tamil Maanila Congress(M) and a two time Member of the Parliament of India representing Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Previously he was the President of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee from 2011 to 2014.
E. M. Sudarsana Natchiappan is a politician from Indian National Congress party and a Member of Parliament representing Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha.
Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),and a senior Member of Parliament in his 32nd year as a Parliamentarian.
Viplove Thakur is an Indian politician. A senior leader of the Indian National Congress party,she has been a member of the Parliament of India. Thakur has represented Himachal Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Parliament since April,2006. She retired from the Upper House in April,2020.
Vijay Jawaharlal Darda is a politician from Indian National Congress party,and was a Member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha since 1998,having been elected for three consecutive terms into the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is the chairman of the Lokmat Media Group. He is also the President of the Akhil Bhartiya Sakal Jain Samaj. Darda was President of the Indian Newspaper Society,New Delhi from 1997 to 1998. He continues to be a member of its executive committee.
Sanjay Rajaram Raut is an Indian politician from Shiv Sena party. He is a member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is the Executive Editor of Marathi newspaper Saamana,published by Uddhav Thackeray,the Shiv Sena party leader.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a Minister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Electronics and Information Technology of India. He is also an entrepreneur,technocrat and a member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha from BJP representing Karnataka. He served as National Spokesperson of BJP and was vice-chairman of the Kerala faction of the BJP-led coalition National Democratic Alliance.
Tiruchi Siva is a member of the Parliament of India representing Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of parliament. He is from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party,and was elected in 1996,2002,2007,2014 and 2020. He is a speaker and a writer.
Chaudhary Birender Singh is a senior Indian political leader and a well-known face in Indian Politics. He lately served as Minister of Rural Development,Panchayati Raj,Sanitation &Drinking Water from 2014 to 2016 and later as the Union Minister of Steel from 2016 to 2019 in the Narendra Modi led NDA Government in India.
Venumbaka Vijayasai Reddy is a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha;Parliamentary Party Leader for the YSR Congress Party;The National General Secretary of YSR Congress Party. He is a Chartered Accountant by profession. Until 2022,he was the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce. Currently,he is the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport,Tourism and Culture. He has been thrice nominated for the Panel of Vice-Chairpersons,Rajya Sabha and is a Member of the Business Advisory Committee,Rajya Sabha. He currently serves as the YSRCP Regional Coordinator for the districts of Joint Prakasam,Joint Nellore,Bapatla,and Narasa Raopet.
