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Amravati Lok Sabha Constituency
Amravati Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Maharashtra state in western India. Assembly segments Presently, Amravati Lok Sabha constituency comprises six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These segments (with constituency number and reservation status) are: Members of Parliament ^ by-poll Election results General elections 2019 General elections 2014 General elections 2009 See also * Amravati district * Wardha district * Ramtek Lok Sabha constituency (for Amravati West Lok Sabha constituency abolished after 1951 elections) * List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, is made up of Members of Parliament ( MPs). Each MP, represents a single geographic constituency. There are currently 543 constituencies while maximum seats will fill up to 550 (after ar ... Notes References External linksAmravati lok sabha constit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navnit Ravi Rana
Navneet Kaur Rana (also known as Navneet Ravi Rana) is a former Indian actress who mainly acted in Telugu cinema. She is an elected Member of Parliament (MP) from Amravati in 2019 Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate. Film career Kaur was born and brought up in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Her parents are of Punjabi origin of Ravidassia Caste; her father was an army official. She completed her studies up to 10th standard in Karthika High School. After finishing 12th class, she discontinued her education and began working as a model, going on to appear in six music videos. Kaur made her feature film debut in ''Darshan'', a Kannada film. Then followed her debut in Telugu with ''Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi'' (2004). ''Chetna'' (2005), ''Jagapathi'' (2005), ''Good Boy'' (2005), and '' Bhuma'' (2008) are some of her subsequent releases. Additional work include ''Kalachakram'', ''Terror'', ''Flash News'' and ''Jabilamma'' which was remake of Hindi film Chameli in Telugu. She w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yashomati Chandrakant Thakur
Yashomati Thakur is a politician from the Indian National Congress. She was the Guardian minister of Amravati District Government of Maharashtra 2020-2022 and member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, where she represents the Teosa Assembly Constituency. Yashomati Thakur was appointed AICC Secretary for the congress party affairs in the Karnataka state. She was appointed AICC secretary for Amravati, Maharashtra. Yashomati Thakur won for the third consecutive time from the Teosa assembly; before her, her father represented same constituency multiple times. She was sworn in as Cabinet Minister in Uddhav Thackeray led Mahavikas Aghadi Government. She was also the guardian minister of Amravati district. Criminal Case(s) 2012 Assault Case A sessions court in Amravati on October 15 convicted Ms Thakur, who is the state's women and child development minister, and three others including her driver, in the case and sentenced them to three months imprisonmen Vidhansab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Indian General Election
General elections were held in India between 16 and 20 March 1977 to elect the members of the 6th Lok Sabha. The elections took place during the Emergency period, which expired on 21 March 1977, shortly before the final results were announced. The election resulted in a heavy defeat for the Indian National Congress (INC), with the incumbent Prime Minister and INC party leader Indira Gandhi losing her seat in Rae Bareli. The call for restoration of democracy by revoking the Emergency is considered to be a major reason for the sweeping victory for the opposition Janata Alliance, whose leader Morarji Desai was sworn in as the fourth Prime Minister of India on 24 March. At 81, Desai became the oldest man to be elected Prime Minister of India. Background This sixth general elections, which were conducted for 542 seats in single-member constituencies, represented 27 Indian states and union territories. These 542 constituencies remained same until 2004 Indian general elections for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Indian General Election
General elections were held in India between 1 and 10 March 1971 to elect members of the 5th Lok Sabha. They were the fifth general elections since independence in 1947. The 27 Indian states and union territories were represented by 518 constituencies, each with a single seat. Under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, the Indian National Congress (R) led a campaign which focused on reducing poverty and won a landslide victory, overcoming a split in the party and regaining many of the seats lost in the previous election. Background Congress party split During her previous term, there had been internal divisions in the Indian National Congress between Indira Gandhi and the party establishment, especially Morarji Desai. In 1969, she was expelled from the party, causing a split. Most of the Congress MPs and grassroots support joined Gandhi's INC(R) faction, which was recognised by the Election Commission as being the successor to the previous party. 31 MPs who opposed Gandhi formed I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Indian General Election
General elections were held in India between 17 and 21 February 1967 to elect 520 of the 523 members of the 4th Lok Sabha, an increase of 15 from the previous session of Lok Sabha. Elections to State Assemblies were also held simultaneously, the last general election to do so. The incumbent Indian National Congress government retained power, albeit with a significantly reduced majority. Indira Gandhi was resworn in as the Prime Minister on 4 March. Background By 1967, economic growth in India had slowed – the 1961–1966 Five-Year Plan gave a target of 6% annual growth, but the actual growth rate was 2%. Under Lal Bahadur Shastri, the government's popularity was boosted after India prevailed in the 1965 War with Pakistan, but the war, along with the previous 1962 War with China, put a strain on the economy. Internal divisions were emerging in the Indian National Congress while its two popular leaders Nehru and Shastri had both died. Indira Gandhi had succeeded Shastri as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vimal Punjab Deshmukh
Vimalbai Panjabrao Deshmukh (27 October 1906 – 25 March 1998) was an Indian politician in the state of Maharashtra who belonged to the INC party. She was the wife of Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh, India's first Cabinet Minister for Agriculture. Deshmukh represented the Maharashtra state in the Rajya Sabha, the Council of States of India parliament from 1967 to 1972. She died on 25 March 1998, at the age of 91. References 1906 births 1988 deaths Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra Women members of the Lok Sabha Women members of the Rajya Sabha Indian National Congress politicians from Maharashtra {{Maharashtra-INC-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Indian General Election
General elections were held in India between 19 and 25 February 1962 to elect members of the 3rd Lok Sabha. Unlike the previous two elections, each constituency elected a single member. Jawaharlal Nehru won another landslide victory in his third and final election campaign. The Indian National Congress received 44.7% of the vote and won 361 of the 494 elected seats. This was only slightly lower than in the previous two elections and they still held over 70% of the seats in the Lok Sabha. Results By-elections In 1963, a by-election was held for the Bilaspur Lok Sabha seat, which was at the time in Madhya Pradesh. The election was won by the Indian National Congress candidate C. Singh, with votes, against M. L. Shukla of Jana Sangh with votes. This by-election was needed because the original election for this seat was declared void by the Madhya Pradesh High Court, which judged that the nomination papers of one of the candidates, Bashir Ahmed Qureshi, "was improperly an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Indian General Election
General elections were held in India between 24 February and 9 June 1957, the second elections to the Lok Sabha after independence. They were held five years after the 1951–52 elections in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of India. Elections to many state legislatures were held simultaneously. There were 494 seats elected using first past the post voting system. Out of the 403 constituencies, 91 elected two members, while the remaining 312 elected a single member. The multi-seat constituencies were abolished before the next election. Under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian National Congress easily won a second term in power, taking 371 of the 494 seats. They gained an extra seven seats (the size of the Lok Sabha had been increased by five) and their vote share increased from 45.0% to 47.8%. The INC won nearly five times more votes than the Communist Party, the second largest party. In addition, 19.3% of the vote and 42 seats went to independent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishnarao Gulabrao Deshmukh
Krisharao Gulabrao Deshmukh (8 March 1922 – 24 October 1992) was an Indian politician who was a member of the 1st, 4th and 5th Lok Sabha of India from the Amravati constituency of Maharashtra, and a member of 2nd Lok Sabha from Ramtek. He was a member of the Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ... (INC) political party. Deshmukh studied at Hislop College and College of Law at Nagpur. He was married to Ashadevi and had two sons and 4 daughters and resides at Amravati. He worked in various capacities in Vidarbha Pradesh, including the Congress Committee, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee and the A.I.C.C. Deshmukh died on 24 October 1992, at the age of 70. References External links 1922 births 1992 deaths India MPs 1971–1977 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panjabrao Deshmukh
Panjabrao Shamrao Deshmukh (27 December 1898 – 10 April 1965), also known as Bhausaheb Deshmukh was a social activist and a leader to farmers in India. He was the Minister of Agriculture in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1952. Early life He was born into Maratha family at Papal in Amravati district of Maharashtra on 27 December 1898, his family practised agriculture. His father's name is Shamrao and mother's name is Radhabai. His original surname was Kadam. After completing his primary education in his hometown, he was sent to Songaon and then to Karanja Lad. At Karanja Lad, he reached ninth grade, before he was admitted into Hind High School, Amravati, and Fergusson College in Pune. At that time, higher education was not available in India. Many students traveled to England for further education. He wanted to be a barrister from Cambridge University. Despite intense poverty at home, he managed to obtain enough money to travel. He then went to the Cambridge Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachchu Kadu
Omprakash Babarao Kadu is an independent Member of the Legislative Assembly from Achalpur, Maharashtra, India. Achalpur assembly constituency is a part of Amravati (Lok Sabha constituency). He has been elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for four consecutive terms from 2004 to 2019. He is currently serving jail for two-years term in a case against him. Career On 19 October 2014, Kadu won the assembly election, defeating congress candidate Bablu Deshmukh candidate by more than 10000 votes. This was the first time in Achalpur assembly elections that a candidate won three times in succession. In 2019 election he won the assembly election by total of 81,252 votes which 44% of the total voters. He is the first candidate to be elected for a fourth consecutive term in Achalpur Assembly elections. He is Leader of Prahar Janshakti Party. He is part of Newly formed MahaVikas Aaghadi or MVA. the banner called Prahar Yuvashakti Sanghatana that became the Prahar Party.He then reb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
