leaders

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

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Priyanka Gandhi born 12 January 1972 is an Indian politician and the general secretary of the All India Congress Committee.

Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi

She is the daughter of former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, sister of Rahul Gandhi, and granddaughter of Feroze and Indira Gandhi, making her a member of the politically prominent Nehru-Gandhi family.

In December 2022, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra led the Congress Party to victory in the 2022 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. She spearheaded the campaign with Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel, Congress leader Sachin Pilot and leaders and workers from Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee.

 

Hemant Soren of JMM

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Hemant Soren born 10 August 1975 is an Indian politician from Jharkhand, who was 5th Chief Minister of Jharkhand since 2019 and from 2013 to 2014. He is also the working president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, a political party in Jharkhand

He was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand on 15 July 2013 with support from Congress and RJD after President’s rule was removed from the state. He was again elected as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand in December 2019, and sworn in on 29 December.

Shashi Tharoor of INC

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Shashi Tharoor born 9 March 1956 is a politician and public intellectual who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009.

During the Congress-led UPA government, Tharoor served as Minister of State for External Affairs. He is currently a member of the Congress Working Committee, which is highest decision making body of the Indian National Congress.

From 1978 to 2007, Tharoor was a career official at the United Nations, rising to the rank of Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information in 2001.

K. C. Venugopal of INC

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K. C. Venugopal born 4 February 1963 is an Indian politician who is a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha elected from Rajasthan.

A member of the Indian National Congress. He has been appointed a General Secretary of AICC, He was the Minister of State for Civil Aviation & Ministry of Power in the UPA Government.

He came to active politics through the Student Movement of the Indian National Congress. He became the State President of the Kerala Students Union and State President of the Indian Youth Congress.

Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee

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Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee

Puducherry PCC is the affiliate of the Indian National Congress in the union territory of Puducherry. It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party’s activities and campaigns within the Union Territory, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections

The Union Territory of Puducherry consists of four small unconnected districts: Puducherry and Karaikal have the largest areas and population, and are both enclaves of Tamil Nadu. Yanam and Mahé are enclaves of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, t was formed out of four territories of former French India, namely Pondichéry or Pondy.

Salman Khurshid of INC

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Salman Khurshid Alam Khan born 1 January 1953 is an Indian politician, designated senior advocate, eminent author and a law teacher. He was the Cabinet Minister of the Ministry of External Affairs. He belongs to the Indian National Congress.

He is a lawyer, and a writer who has been elected from Farrukhabad Lok Sabha constituency in the General Election of 2009.

He is the son of Khurshed Alam Khan, a former Union Minister of External affairs, Government of India, and maternal grandson of Zakir Husain, the third President of India.

Sonia Gandhi of INC

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Sonia Gandhi born 9 December 1946 is an Indian politician. She is the longest-serving president of the Indian National Congress, a social democratic political party, which has governed India for most of its post-independence history.

Sonia Gandhi of INC

She took over as the party leader in 1998, seven years after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, her husband and a former Prime Minister of India, and remained in office until 2017 after serving for twenty-two years.

Akhilesh Yadav – Samajwadi Party

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Akhilesh Yadav is an Indian politician and national president of the Samajwadi Party who served as the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Having assumed the chief minister’s office on 15 March 2012 at the age of 38, he is the youngest person to have held the office till date.

He is the son of Mulayam Singh Yadav, a veteran Indian politician and the founder of Samajwadi Party who served as Minister of Defence, Government of India and three term Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

His chief ministerial tenure also saw emphasis on developing power sector, modernising the police force, setting up Kisan Bazaars and Mandis, introducing social welfare schemes such as Lohiya Awas Yojana, Kanya Vidya Dhan, Kisan Avam Sarvhit Bima Yojana, Pension Yojna and allotting unemployment allowances.

Between 2012-2015, over 15 Lakh laptops were distributed to the 10th and 12th passout students by the Government of Uttar Pradesh, making it one of the largest distribution scheme by any government in the world.

Sam Pitroda

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Sam Pitroda is the Father of Digital India. In 1987 during his tenure as advisor to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Pitroda headed six technology missions related to telecommunications, water, literacy, immunization, dairy, and oilseeds. He spent nearly a decade with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as the leader of an effort to build an Indian information industry.

Dreaming Big

Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda born 17 November 1942, also known as Sam Pitroda is an Indian telecommunication engineer, and entrepreneur. He is the chairman of Indian Overseas Congress. He was born in Titlagarh.

He was also an advisor to, Prime Minister (then) Dr. Manmohan Singh’s tenure and for United Nations.

He obtained a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. In 1966 he went to work for GTE in Chicago. He is regarded as one of the earliest pioneers of hand-held computing because he invented the Electronic Diary in 1975.

In 1984, Pitroda was invited to return to India by the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. On his return, he started the Center for Development of Telematics C-DOT, an autonomous telecom R&D organization.

Digvijaya Singh of INC

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Digvijaya Singh born 28 February 1947 is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha.

He is Ex-General Secretary of the Indian National Congress party’s All India Congress Committee. Previously, he had served as the 14th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, a central Indian state, for two terms from 1993 to 2003.