WRITIQUES

 President of India

Shri Ram Nath Kovind

Father's Name: Late Shri Maiku Lal

Mother's Name: Late Smt. Kalavati

Date of Birth: October 01, 1945

Place of Birth: Kanpur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh

Educational Qualifications: B.Com, L.L.B.

Profession: Advocate, Politician, and Activist

Positions Held:

• Member, Rajya Sabha, 1994-2006. (Elected from Uttar Pradesh)
• Permanent Advocate at Hon'ble Supreme Court of India for Central Govt. (1980-93).
• Member, Parliamentary Committees for SC/ST Welfare, Home Ministry, Petroleum & Natural Gas, Social Justice and Rights, Law & Justice, Chairman of Rajya Sabha Housing Committee.
• Member, Management Board for Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Lucknow.
• Member, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
• Represented India at United Nations (New York) and addressed the General Assembly during Oct 2002.
• Governor of Bihar from 16-08-2015 to 21-06-2017

 

Vice President of India

Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu

Father's Name: Late Shri Rangaiah Naidu

Mother's Name: Late Shrimati Ramanamma

Date of Birth: 01/07/1949

Place of Birth: 

• Chavatapalem, SPSR Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh

Educational Qualifications: 

• B.A., B.L. (Educated at V.R. High School, Nellore; V.R. College, Nellore and Law College, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam)

Profession: 

• Agriculturist/Farmer, Political and Social worker

Positions held:

• 1971: President, Students' Union, V.R. College, Nellore
• 1973-74: President, Students Union, Andhra University Colleges
• 1974: Convener, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Kshetra Sangharsh Samiti of Andhra Pradesh

• 1977-80: President, Youth Wing of Janata Party, Andhra Pradesh
• 1978-83 & 1983-85: Member, Legislative Assembly, Andhra Pradesh
• 1980-83: Vice-President, Youth Wing of All India B.J.P.
• 1980-85: Leader, B.J.P. Legislature Party in Andhra Pradesh
• 1985-88: General Secretary, Andhra Pradesh State B.J.P.
• 1988-93: President, Andhra Pradesh State Unit of B.J.P.

• 1993 -2000: General Secretary, All India B.J.P.
• 1996 - 2000: Secretary (i) BJP Parliamentary Board, & (ii) BJP Central Election Committee, and (iii) Spokesperson, BJP
• April 1998: Elected to Rajya Sabha from Karnataka (1st term)
• 1998 - 99: Member, Committee on Home Affairs and Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Agriculture
• 1998 - 2001 & 2005 - 2013: Member, Tobacco Board
• 1999 - 2000: Member, Committee on Finance
• Jan 2000: Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Rural Development
• 2000 (Sept) -2002 (June): Minister of Rural Development, Government of India

• 2002 (July) - 2004 (Oct): National President, B.J.P.
• 2004 (Jan) - 2004 (Feb): Member, Committee on External Affairs
• June 2004: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Karnataka (2nd term)
• 2004 - 06: Member, Standing Committee on Finance
• 2005: Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
• 2006 - 2008: Chairman, Committee on Petitions (Rajya Sabha)
• 2006 onwards: Member, (i) BJP Parliamentary Board, and (ii) BJP Central Election Committee

• 2008 - 2014: Chairman, Committee on Home Affairs (Rajya Sabha)
• June 2010: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha in June 2010 from Karnataka (3rd term)
• 2011 (Dec) - 2014 (May): Parliamentary Forum on Disaster Management
• 26 May 2014 - 5 July 2016: Minister for Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs ;
• June 2016 - Re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan (4th term)
• 6th July 2016 - 17 July 2017: Minister for Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, and Information and Broadcasting.

Other interests: 

• Agriculture, social work, and writing articles in newspapers on the subjects of political and public interest; motivating voluntary organizations and involving and guiding constructive works in the fields of agriculture, health, animal care, vocational training, education, etc.

Hobbies: 

• Reading, Educating, and motivating people

Countries visited: 

• U.S.A., U.K., Malaysia, Singapore, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Australia, Mauritius, Maldives, Dubai, Hong Kong, Thailand, Spain, Egypt, and Germany.

 

Prime Minister of India

Shri Narendra Modi

Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi.

Education: Gujarat University (1983), School of Open Learning, University of Delhi (1978), University of Delhi 

Born: 17 September 1950 (age 70 years), Vadnagar

Full name: Narendra Damodardas Modi

Political Journey

• In 1985, he joined BJP. • In 1988, BJP elected him to Organizing Secretary of Party's Gujarat Unit. • In November 1995, he was elected National Secretary of BJP. • In May 1998, he became the General Secretary of BJP. • On 3 October 2001, he became the Chief Minister of Gujarat for the 1st time and retained the post till 2014. • He was appointed to BJP Parliamentary Board on 31 March 2013. • He won the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from the Varanasi Constituency by a massive margin of 3, 71,784 votes. • On 26 May 2014, he was appointed the 14th Prime Minister of India. • He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the Varanasi constituency by a margin of 4, 79,505 votes; larger than the previous margin in the 2014 General Elections. • On 30 May 2019, he took the oath as the 15th Prime Minister of India.

Awards, Honours

2007: Named the Best Chief Minister in a nationwide survey by India Today 2012: Appeared on the cover of the Asian edition of Time Magazine 2014: Awarded Indian of the Year by CNN-IBN news network; also, Forbes Magazine ranked him the 15th-Most-Powerful Person in the World 2015: Bloomberg Markets Magazine ranked him the 13th-Most-Influential Person in the World; also, named one of Time's "30 Most Influential People on the Internet" as the second-most-followed politician on Twitter and Facebook 2014 & 2016: Declared winner of the Time magazine reader's poll for Person of the Year 2016: On 3rd April, honored with Order of Abdulaziz Al Saud; the highest civilian honor of Saudi Arabia 2016: On 4th June, honored with State Order of Ghazi Amir Amanullah Khan; the highest civilian honor of Afghanistan 2014, 2015, and 2017: Named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World 2015, 2016, and 2018: Forbes Magazine ranked him the 9th-Most-Powerful Person in the World 2018 • On 10th February, honored with Grand Collar of the State of Palestine; the highest civilian honor of Palestine for foreign dignitaries • On 27th September, awarded the Champions of the Earth Award; the UN’s highest environmental honor, also given to five other individuals and organizations, for his leadership of the International Solar Alliance and pledge to eliminate single-use plastic by 2022 • On 24 October, conferred with the Seoul Peace Prize for 2018 for his contribution to international cooperation and fostering global economic growth. 2019 • On 22 February, he received the prestigious Seoul Peace Prize for 2018.

 

Governors and Chief Minister of India

States	Governors	Chief Minister
Andhra Pradesh	Shri Biswa Bhusan Harichandan	Shri YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
Arunachal Pradesh	Brig. (Dr.) B. D. Mishra (Retd.)	Shri Pema Khandu
Assam	Prof. Jagdish Mukhi	Shri Sarbananda Sonowal
Bihar	Shri Phagu Chauhan	Shri Nitish Kumar
Chhattisgarh	Sushri Anusuiya Uikey	Shri Bhupesh Baghel
Goa	Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari	Shri Pramod Sawant
Gujarat	Shri Acharya Dev Vrat	Shri Vijaybhai R. Rupani
Haryana	Shri Satyadeo Narain Arya	Shri Manohar Lal
Himachal Pradesh	Shri Bandaru Dattatraya	Shri Jairam Thakur
Jharkhand	Shrimati Droupadi Murmu	Shri Hemant Soren
Karnataka	Shri Vajubhai Vala	Sri B. S. Yediyurappa
Kerala	Shri Arif Mohammed Khan	Shri Pinarayi Vijayan
Madhya Pradesh	Smt. Anandiben Patel	Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Maharashtra	Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari	Shri Uddhav Thackeray
Manipur	Dr. Najma Heptulla	Shri N. Biren Singh
Meghalaya	Shri Satya Pal Malik	Shri Conrad Kongkal Sangma
Mizoram	Shri P.S. Sreedharan Pillai	Shri Pu Zoramthanga
Nagaland	Shri R. N. Ravi	Shri Neiphiu Rio
Odisha	Prof. Ganeshi Lal	Shri Naveen Patnaik
Punjab	Shri V.P. Singh Badnore	Shri Capt. Amarinder Singh
Rajasthan	Shri Kalraj Mishra	Shri Ashok Gehlot
Sikkim	Shri Ganga Prasad	Shri PS Golay
Tamil Nadu	Shri Banwarilal Purohit	Thiru Edappadi K. Palaniswami
Telangana	Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan	Shri K Chandrasekhar Rao
Tripura	Shri Ramesh Bais	Shri Biplab Kumar Deb
Uttar Pradesh	Smt. Anandiben Patel	Shri Yogi Aditya Nath
Uttarakhand	Smt. Baby Rani Maurya	Shri Trivendra Singh Rawat
West Bengal	Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar	Km. Mamata Banerjee

 

Prime Ministers of India

Prime Minister	Years
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)	August 15, 1947 - May 27, 1964
Gulzari Lal Nanda (1898-1997) (Acting)	May 27, 1964 - June 9, 1964
Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904-1966)	June 09, 1964 - January 11, 1966
Gulzari Lal Nanda (1898-1997) (Acting)	January 11, 1966 - January 24, 1966
Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)	January 24, 1966 - March 24, 1977
Morarji Desai (1896-1995)	March 24, 1977 - July 28, 1979
Charan Singh (1902-1987)	July 28, 1979 - January14, 1980
Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)	January 14, 1980 - October 31, 1984
Rajiv Gandhi (1944-1991)	October 31, 1984 - December 01, 1989
Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931-2008)	December 02, 1989 - November 10, 1990
Chandra Shekhar (1927-2007)	November 10, 1990 - June 21, 1991
P.V. Narasimha Rao (1921-2004)	June 21, 1991 - May 16, 1996
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1926-2018)	May 16, 1996 - June 01, 1996
H.D. Deve Gowda (B-1933)	June 01, 1996 - April 21, 1997
I.K. Gujral (1933 -2012)	April 21, 1997 - March 18, 1998
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1926-2018)	March 19, 1998 - October 13, 1999
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1926-2018)	October 13, 1999 - May 22, 2004
Dr. Manmohan Singh (B-1932)	May 22, 2004 - May 26, 2014
Narendra Modi (B-1950)	May 26, 2014 - Incumbent