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Indian National Congress Campaign For The 2019 Indian General Election
On 25 August 2018, Indian National Congress President Rahul Gandhi has constituted the Core Group Committee, Manifesto Committee and Publicity Committee for the upcoming 2019 Indian general election. Leadership Slogans 'Ab Hoga Nyay' Congress on Sunday 7 April 2019 launched its Lok Sabha campaign slogan 'Ab Hoga Nyay' (Now, There Will be Justice) by weaving a narrative around the "injustice" meted out to countrymen and "atmosphere of despair" prevailing in the country during the Narendra Modi government. Chowkidar Chor Hai ''Chowkidar Chor Hai'' ( hi, चौकीदार चोर है। is a Hindi slogan used by the Indian National Congress in its campaign for the 2019 Indian general election General elections were held in India in seven phases from 11 April to 19 May 2019 to elect the members of the 17th Lok Sabha. Votes were counted and the result was declared on 23 May. Around 912 million people were eligible to vote, and voter .... The slogan was coine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Indian General Election
General elections were held in India in seven phases from 11 April to 19 May 2019 to elect the members of the 17th Lok Sabha. Votes were counted and the result was declared on 23 May. Around 912 million people were eligible to vote, and voter turnout was over 67 percent – the highest ever, as well as the highest ever participation by women voters. The Bharatiya Janata Party received 37.36% of the vote, the highest vote share by a political party since the 1989 general election, and won 303 seats, further increasing its substantial majority. In addition, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 353 seats. The Indian National Congress won 52 seats, failing to get 10% of the seats needed to claim the post of Leader of Opposition; Congress led United Progressive Alliance won 91 seats. Other parties and their alliances won 98 seats. Legislative assembly elections in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim were held simultaneously with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhupinder Singh Hooda
Bhupinder Singh Hooda (born 15 September 1947) is an Indian National Congress politician who is the current Leader of the Opposition in Haryana Legislative Assembly. He also served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 2005 to 2014. When he began a second term in 2009 Haryana Legislative Assembly election, October 2009 after leading the Indian National Congress, Congress to an election victory, it was the first time since 1972 that a Haryana electorate returned a ruling party back to power. Hooda is also a Member of the Bar Council of Punjab, India, Punjab and Haryana. In 2010, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh constituted the Working Group on Agriculture Production under Hooda's chairmanship to recommend strategies and action plan for increasing agricultural production and productivity, including long-term policies to ensure sustained agricultural growth. Early life Bhupinder Singh Hooda was born to Chaudhary Ranbir Singh Hooda and Har Devi Hooda at the Sanghi village in R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milind Murli Deora
Milind Deora (born 4 December 1976) is an Indian politician and former Union Minister of State (MoS) for Communications & Information Technology and Shipping. He was a Member of the 15th Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament of India, from the Mumbai South constituency and also President of Mumbai regional congress committee. He currently serves as a member of Dean’s Advisory Board at Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies in Boston University. Deora was one of the youngest members of the 15th Lok Sabha. He became MP at the age of 27. He won the 2004 elections with a margin of 10,000 votes against BJP's Jaywantiben Mehta. In the 2009 Lok Sabha election, Deora was again elected from Mumbai South Constituency, this time by a margin of 1,12,682 votes. Milind Deora was inducted in the Union Government of India as the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology in 2011. Early life Deora was born in Bombay (present-day Mumbai) to veteran politician Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praveen Chakravarty
Praveen Chakravarty is an Indian politician belonging to the Congress Party. He took over as chairperson of the All India Professionals' Congress from Shashi Tharoor on 15 November 2023. He is the Chairman of the Data Analytics department, appointed by Rahul Gandhi. He is the brains behind SHAKTI, a project that was created to modernise the Congress party. He along with P.Chidambaram drafted the NYAY scheme for the party's 2019 election manifesto with help from Nobel Laureate Prof. Abhijit Banerjee among others. Chakravarty was a political economist scholar in a think tank, an investment banker and angel investor before entering politics. It was widely reported that Chakravarty will be the Congress candidate for Member of Parliament of the Upper House in 2021 from the state of Tamil Nadu. Early life Praveen Chakravarty was born in Tamil Nadu, Chennai, and is an alumnus of BITS Pilani and has an MBA from Wharton School. Career Praveen Chakravarty started his career w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhakta Charan Das
Bhakta Charan Das (born 26 November 1958) is an Indian politician. He was a member of the Indian Parliament and represented the Kalahandi constituency in the 15th Lok Sabha. Das graduated from the Sambalpur University and, with a background in Law, worked as an advocate before joining politics. The contribution of Bhakta Charan Das, an activist cum politician, for ensuring the basic right and entitlements and conservation of nature is a milestone and a source of inspiration for others. In 1977 he came in contact with ''Yuva Chhatra Sangharsh Bahini'' (the student wing of JP movement in 1977). Under the banner of this organization he started revolution against the rampant corruption at different levels and worked for the basic entitlements of the marginal section. Under his leadership the organisation pressed demand to provide employment to the local youths of the nearby districts in Indravati Hydro & Irrigation Project and he was successful to a greater extent. Save Forest M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor (; ; born 9 March 1956 in London, England ) is an Indian former international civil servant, diplomat, bureaucrat and politician, writer and public intellectual who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He is the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers. He was formerly Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and unsuccessfully ran for the post of Secretary-General in 2006. Founder-Chairman of All India Professionals Congress, he formerly served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs and on Informational Technology. Born in London, UK, and raised in India, Tharoor worked across the world, graduating from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1975 and culminated his studies in 1978 with a doctorate in International Relations and Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. At the age of 22, he was the youngest person at the time to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mukul Sangma
Mukul Manda Sangma is an Indian politician who was Chief Minister of Meghalaya from 2010 to 2018 and is currently leader of the opposition in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly. He has been a member of the All India Trinamool Congress since November 2021; previously, he was a longtime member of the Indian National Congress. Early life and career Sangma was born on 20 April 1965, son of teachers Binoy Bhushan M. Marak and Roshanara Begum at Ampatigiri, now the headquarters of South West Garo Hills district. In 1990, he graduated in medicine from the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal in 1990, and joined Zikzak Public Health Centre as a health and medical officer in 1991. Political career In 1993, Sangma was elected to the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly from Ampatigiri as an independent candidate, following which he was appointed the Chairman of the Meghalaya Transport Corporation. Sangma was re-elected to the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly in 1998, 2003, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamradhwaj Sahu
Tamradhwaj Sahu (born 6 August 1949) is an Indian politician of the INC. He is the current Home Minister of Chhattisgarh. He is a member of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly representing Durg Gramin. Political career Tamradhwaj Sahu was member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Durg (Lok Sabha constituency), Chhattisgarh. He won the 2014 Indian general election being an Indian National Congress candidate. Before becoming the Member of Parliament, he was a member of Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly from 1998 until 2013. Currently, he is the Home Minister of Chhattisgarh. Political views Sahu is inspired by Chandulal Chandrakar, former Politician of Durg. He ventured into politics as a student. Personal life Sahu was born in Patora village, Bemetara, Central Provinces and Berar (now Chhattisgarh) on 6 August 1949. He is married to Kamala Sahu. They have three sons and a daughter. Social activities He has actively worked for the Sahu Samaj Cultural Activities, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Pitroda
Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda also known as Sam Pitrod) is an Indian inventor, telecommunication engineer and entrepreneur. He was born in Titlagarh in the eastern Indian state of Odisha to a Gujarati people, Gujarati family. He is popularly known as the Father of India's Computer and IT Revolution as he helped in bringing computerization. He was also an advisor to the PM during Manmohan Singh, Dr. Manmohan Singh's tenure. Early life Pitroda was born in Titlagarh, Odisha, India to Gujarati people, Gujarati parents. He had seven siblings and is third oldest among them. The family was deeply influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and his philosophy. Consequently, Pitroda and his brother were sent to Gujarat to imbibe Gandhian philosophy. He completed his schooling from Vallabh Vidyanagar in Gujarat and completed his master's degree in physics and electronics from Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara. After completing his master's degree in physics, he went to the United States in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajni Patil
Rajani Patil (5 December 1958) is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress Party, she is the All India Congress Committee In-charge for Jammu & Kashmir. She is a Member of Parliament, representing Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ... in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of Indian Parliament . She was awarded the Best debut Parliamentarian award for her performance in the Rajya Sabha. She was earlier elected to the Lok Sabha from Beed in the 11th Lok Sabha. In 2005, she was elected as the Chairperson of the Central Social Welfare Board. She represented India at the 49th session of the UN Commission on the status of women at the UN headquarters in New York. She was a student political leader in college in the National Students Union of I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meenakshi Natarajan
Meenakshi Natarajan (born 23 July 1973) is an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament from Mandsaur (Lok Sabha constituency), Mandsaur from 2009 to 2014, her single term in parliament. Background Meenakshi Natarajan was born in Birlagram Nagda, Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. She is a post graduate in Biochemistry and has a bachelor's degree in Law. She completed her study in Indore Madhya Pradesh from Devi Ahilya University. Ratlam was the Place where she started her political career right joining after NSUI. She is writer of "1857-Bhartiya paripeksh" "Apne-Apne Kurukshetra" is her popular novel. Political career Organisational roles She worked as NSUI President from 1999–2002. She also worked as President Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress from 2002-2005 and was selected by Rahul Gandhi as AICC Secretary in 2008. 2009 Elections She was selected by Rahul Gandhi for contesting from Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh in 2009 Indian general election which she won by over 30,000 votes d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhalchandra Mungekar
Bhalchandra Laxman Mungekar (born 2 March 1946) is an Indian economist, educationist, Social worker and Rajya Sabha member. He specialises in agricultural economics and is an expert on B. R. Ambedkar. Early life Mungekar was born in Munge village to Laxman Gopal Mungekar and Shewanti Mungekar, in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. He studied at the Navbharat Vidyalaya at Parel and Siddharth English High School at Wadala and did B.A, M.A, and Ph.D. in economics from University of Mumbai. In 1965, he joined Reserve Bank of India as a clerk and elevated to the rank of assistant economist. Career He has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mumbai and has served in the Planning Commission, the Agricultural Price Commission of India. Mungekar has also been the chairman and President of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. And also he has been the chairman of University Grand Commission. He is also a writer, great philosopher and was an economics teacher at Siddharth Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
