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India is a land of great political leaders who ruled the country effectively and also by protecting its national interest. Here we Listed famous Indian leaders with their biographies that include interesting facts and life history.Also Their Background Age Mobile Number Address Profession etc.

Top 50 Prominent Leaders of India
Abhishek Manu	Jyotiraditya M. Scindia
Ambika Soni	Anurag Singh Thakur
Arjun Munda	Maneka Gandhi
Arun Jaitley	Arvind Kejriwal
Arvinder Singh Lovely	Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Babu Lal Marandi	Ashokrao Shankarrao Chavan
Captain Abhimanyu Singh	Hemant Soren
Digvijay Singh	Kiren Rijiju
Ghulam Nabi Azad	Raj Thackery
Jagdish Mukhi	Mulayam Singh Yadav
M. Venkaiah Naidu	J Jayalalithaa
Mamata Banerjee	Yogi Adityanath
Manmohan Singh	Feroze Varun Gandhi
Mayawati	Ajay Maken
Narendra Modi	Vijendra Gupta
Nitish Kumar	Lal Krishna Advani
Omar Abdullah	Harsh Vardhan
Ram Madhav	Bhagwant Mann
Sachin Pilot	Asaduddin Owaisi
Satish Upadhyay,	Mehbooba Mufti
Sharad Pawar	Nara Chandra Babu Naidu
Sheila Dixit	Sonia Gandhi
Sushma Swaraj	Raghubar Das
Yashwant Sinha	Kalraj Mishra

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Age	78
DOB	March 31, 1938
Place of Birth	Kapurthala, Punjab
Religion	Hindu
Education	M.A.(History)
Profession before joining politics	Political and Social Worker
Spouse Name	Vinod Dixit
Children	1son 1 daughter
Achievements	She represented India on the U.N. Commission on Status of Women for five years NDTV awarded her the Politician of the Year Award in 2009
Children	Sandeep Dikshit, Latika Dikshit Syed
Siblings	Pam Malhotra, Rama Dhawan
Previous office	Member of Delhi Legislative Assembly (2008–2013)

About:
Sheila Dikshit (born 31 March 1938) is an Indian politician who was the Chief Minister of Delhi from 1998 to 2013. She is a member of the Indian National Congress. Dikshit led the Congress to three consecutive electoral victories in Delhi. In the December 2013 elections to the Delhi Legislative Assembly, Dikshit was defeated in New Delhi constituency by Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal, who briefly replaced her as Delhi's chief minister. Subsequently, she was sworn in as Governor of Kerala on 11 March 2014. However, she resigned on 25 August 2014.She has been declared Chief Ministerial candidate for Indian National Congress in upcoming Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2017

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Early years:
Sheila Dikshit was born on 31 March 1938 in Kapurthala, Punjab into a Punjabi Khatri family.She was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary School in New Delhi and graduated with a Master of Arts degree in history from the Miranda House at the University of Delhi
Personal life:
Dikshit was married to Vinod Dikshit, son of independence activist and former West Bengal Governor Uma Shankar Dikshit, who came from Ugu village of Unnao.He was as an officer in the Indian Administrative Service. He died due to a heart attack in a train journey with his wife and children.

Dikshit has two children including a son, Sandeep Dikshit, who is a former Member of Parliament of the 15th Lok Sabha from East Delhi.and a daughter, Latika Syed.

Political Career;
Sheila Dikshit's entry into Indian politics was accidental. Late Uma Shankar Dikshit, her father-in-law, was a renowned activist during India's independence struggle. He later became a union cabinet minister in the Indira Gandhi government. Sheila Dikshit used to help her father-in-law a lot while he was serving in this position . The former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi acknowledged her administrative skills and nominated Dikshit as an Indian delegate of the United Nations Commission on the issue of status of women. This marked her entry in Indian politics, which led her eventually to become the chief minister of Delhi.

Awards and recognition:

    2008 Best Chief Minister of India, by Journalist Association of India.
    2009 Politician of the Year by NDTV
    2010 Dara Shikoh award by Indo-Iran Society
    2013 Delhi Women of the Decade Achievers Award 2013 by ALL Ladies League for Outstanding Public Service.

Different Departments Held by Sheila Dikshit

General Administration Department
Public Relations
Higher Education
Training & Technical Education
Administrative Reforms
Home Department
Legislative Affairs and Law & Justice
Services Department
Vigilance Department
Water
Art & Culture
Environment, Forest & Wild Life Department

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Born	1 March 1951 (age 65)
	Bakhtiarpur, Bihar, India
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Janata Dal (United) and Janata Parivar group
Spouse(s)	Manju Kumari Sinha
Children	Nishant Kumar
Alma mater	Bihar College of Engineering (now National Institute of Technology, Patna)
Profession	Politician
	Engineer
Religion	Hinduism

Family history:

Nitish Kumar belongs to Kurmi caste. His parents are Kaviraj Ram Lakhan Singh and Parmeshwari Devi. Kumar's father, Kaviraj Ram Lakhan Singh was a freedom fighter as well as an Ayurvedic Vaidyaraj. Kumar's father left the Indian National Congress to join the Janata Party, as he was denied party ticket to contest 1952 and 1957 general elections. Kumar graduated in mechanical engineering from Bihar College of Engineering, Patna. Kumar's wife Manju Kumari Sinha passed away in 2007 and he has a son Nishant, who pursued engineering from the BIT, Mesra, Jharkhand.

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Political career:

After participating in the stalwart Jayaprakash Narayan's movement in 1974 to 1977, Nitish made his debut in political world in 1980 Bihar elections. In 1985, he was first elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly as an independent candidate.

In 1987, Nitish became the President of the Yuva Lok Dal and in 1989, he became the Secretary-General of the Janata Dal. After working with the RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav, both parted ways and Nitish founded Samata Party in 1994. Kumar was first elected to Lok Sabha in 1989 and he served as the Minister of Surface Transport (1998 to 1999), Minister of Agriculture (1999 to 2001) and Minister of Railways (1998 to 1999 and 2001 to 2004).

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Performance as Bihar CM:

Currently, serving as the 22nd Bihar Chief Minister for the second term, Nitish took first oath as the Bihar CM in 2000, but his first stint was short-termed that lasted only for a week because of lack of majority. Then, the RJD formed the government with Rabri Devi as the state's chief minister. In 2005 Bihar assembly elections, Nitish's JD(U) formed the government and since then, he has transformed Bihar from a backward state to one of the best-governed states in terms of development, infrastructure and most importantly, the crime also reduced under his rule. Besides, Nitish has introduced various schemes related to education and employment in rural areas. In his second term, some of the notable achievements of Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) government in Bihar are- Jankari scheme, E-shakti NREGS program, bicycle and meal programs (that led to fall in school drop out rates), 50% reservation in electorals to women and extremely backward castes, health schemes and loan schemes for farmers.

In 2010 Bihar assembly elections, Nitish Kumar swept to power with its former ally BJP. The JD(U)-BJP alliance won 206 seats while Lalu's RJD had to face an embarrassing defeat with just 22 seats.

Important positions held

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Name	Mamata Banerjee
Constituency	Bhabanipur
Age	61
DOB	Jan 5, 1955
Place of Birth	Kolkata, West Bengal
Political Party	Mamta Banerjee was a member of INC from 1970 to 1997 & established Trinamool Congress in 1997.
Religion	Hindu
Education	B.A from Jogamaya Devi College, M.A in Islamic History from Shri Shikshayatan College & degree in law from Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College, Kolkata.
Spouse Name	Unmarried
Important positions held	Minister of Railways 2 times (13 October 1999 to 15 March 2001 & 26 May 2009 to 19 May 2011) & chief minister of West Bengal from 20/05/2011 onwards.
Achievements	Authored over twenty books and created over 5000 oil paintings.

About Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee is the ninth Chief Minister of West Bengal, India. She is the first lady to hold the Chief Minister’s office in the state. On 19 May 2016, she became the only women CM to win two consecutive terms. The thumping victory came on the heels of several corruption charges during the end of her tenure as the eighth chief minister. In 1997, Banerjee had dissociated herself from the Indian National Congress and founded the All India Trinamool Congress, also known as TMC or AITMC.

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Personal Life:
Throughout her political life, Banerjee has maintained publicly an austere lifestyle, dressing in simple traditional Bengali clothes and avoiding on luxuries.

She has remained single throughout her life.

Controversies:
In a statement on 17 October 2012, Banerjee attributed the increasing incidence of rape in the country to "more free interaction between men and women". She said,"Earlier if men and women would hold hands, they would get caught by parents and reprimanded but now everything is so open. It’s like an open market with open options." She was criticised in the national media for these statements.

CM of West Bengal (2016–present)
West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2016 was held for 294 seats (out of 295 seats) of the Vidhan Sabha in the state of West Bengal in India.All India Trinamool Congress won the elections with a landslide two-third majority under Mamata Banerjee winning 211 seats out of total 293.who has been elected as Chief Minister West Bengal for the second term.All India Trinamool Congress won with an enhanced majority contesting alone and became the first ruling party to win without an ally since 1962 in West Bengal.

Political Journey of Mamata Banerjee:

1976 - 1980: General Secretary of Mahila Congress (I) in West Bengal
1978-1981: Secretary of the District Congress Committee (Indira) of Calcutta South
1984: Elected as a member of the 8th Lok Sabha. Also became the General Secretary of the All India Youth Congress (I).
1985-1987: Member of the Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes
1987-1988: Member of Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, National Council of All India Youth Congress (I), Consultative Committee on Ministry of Home Affairs
1988: Executive Committee Member of the Congress Parliamentary Party
1989: Executive Committee Member of the Pradesh Congress Committee of the state
1990: West Bengal’s Youth Congress President
1991: Member of the 10th Lok Sabha (her second election to the LS)
1991-1993: Union Minister of State for Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Human Resource Development, Women and Child Development
1993-1996: Member of the Committee on Home Affairs
1995-1996: Member of Committee on Public Accounts, Consultative Committee Member of the Ministry of Home Affairs
1996: Elected as a member of the 11th Lok Sabha (third time)
1996-1997:Member of Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Committee on Home Affairs
1997: Founded the All India Trinamool Congress and became its Chairperson
1998: Re-elected as a member of the 12th Lok Sabha (fourth time)
1998 – 1999: Chairperson of the Committee on Railways, Member of the Ministry of Home Affairs' Consultative Committee, Member of the General Purposes Committee
1998 – 1999: Chairperson of the Committee on Railways, Member of the Ministry of Home Affairs' Consultative Committee, Member of the General Purposes Committee

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AT A GLANCE:

Former Member of the National Executive, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
Has been the Senior Functionary, Media interface, Interlocutor for the intelligentsia for the RSS
Active Journalist and writer for over twenty years
Author of several books
Facilitation of Strategic Think-tanks
Experience of organizational and public positions

EDUCATIONAL:

Masters (MA) in Political Science from University of Mysore, Karnataka, India.
Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Andhra Pradesh, India

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IN THE MEDIA

Director, Bharat Prakashan, Delhi – publishers of Organiser (English weekly) and Panchajanya (Hindi weekly) – from 2003 to 2012
Associate Editor, “Jagriti” Telugu weekly (1990-2000).
Editor, “Vande Mataram”, fortnightly English bulletin run by the RSS in AP (1995-2001).
Editor, “Bharatiya Pragna”, a monthly magazine in English published by Pragna Bharati, AP (1994-2001).
Publishes regularly in various magazines, journals and on the web on domestic and international issues
Authored 10 books in Telugu, including biographies of Sri Shyama Prasad Mukharjee, Guru Teg Bahadur and historical themes like the Partition of India and the Maratha Naval hero Kanhoji Angrey.

PUBLIC AND ACADEMIC OFFICES

Presently National General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Presently Director, India Foundation, New Delhi – a Strategic Studies Think-Tank and NGO in Delhi
Presently involved in setting up a major University for Buddhist-Indic Studies in India
Served as a Member of the Executive Council of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi during 1999-2002.
Served as a Member of the AP Film Censor Board during 1998-2002.
Served as a Director on the Board of Aurora group of educational institutions at Hyderabad, India that runs several engineering and other professional colleges during 1996 – 2002.
Organising Secretary of a movement of thinkers and intellectuals – Pragna Bharati – in Andhra Pradesh during 1990 – 2002. Member of its Kendriya Prakoshta (Central Core Group).

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Some More on Ram Madhav:

He is also the author of the famous book named "Uneasy Neighbours: India and China after Fifty Years of the War." The book deals with the history of 1962 war. It also highlights the failure of India in understanding its neighbor.
He has written 12 books in total including biographies. Madhav writes constantly for several Indian newspaper dailies as well as weeklies as a columnist.
Ram Madhav has been associated with the RSS since his childhood days but he completely dedicated himself to the Sangh in 1981. Madhav has been assigned at various key positions in RSS since his joining. He officially became the spokesperson of RSS in 2003.
Born in East Godavari in 1965, Madhav has initially been a student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering but he pursued his post graduation in Political Science from the University of Mysore.
It is notable that Madhav has been a journalist for over 20 years. He has also served as the director in several film censor boards and educational institutes of India.

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Age	36
DOB	Sep 7, 1977
Place of Birth	Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Religion	Hindu
Education	B.A. (Hons), M.B.A.(Educated at St. Stephens College, University of Delhi, Delhi and Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Profession before joining politics	Agriculturist
Spouse Name	Smt. Sara Pilot
Children	2 sons
Parents	Rajesh Pilot, Rama Pilot
Siblings	Sarika Pilot

About:
Sachin Pilot (born 7 September 1977) is a politician and a member of the Indian National Congress. He represented Ajmer constituency of Rajasthan at member of Indian Parliament in the 15th Lok Sabha. He was Minister of Corporate Affairs and the President of Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee.

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Personal life:
Pilot married Sara Abdullah on 15 January 2004. Sara Abdullah is the daughter of Farooq Abdullah, the National Conference and ex-Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.Together they have two sons, Aaran and Vehaan.Currently, Sachin Pilot and Sara Pilot live in Ghaziabad.
Political life:
Son of a senior politician Rajesh Pilot, he became the youngest Member of Parliament in the country at the age of 26.Pilot was a Member of the Lok Sabha's Standing Committee on Home Affairs and Member of the Consultative Committee in the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, he defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's Kiran Maheshwari by a margin of 76,000 votes and won the seat of Ajmer special thanks to Kothari and Family.
In the 2014 Lok sabha elections, he was again nominated from the Ajmer constituency.Pilot, sitting MP from Ajmer, was defeated by a margin of 1,71,983 votes by Bharatiya Janata Party's sitting MLA Sanwarlal Jat.
Army service
Sachin Pilot on 6 September 2012 became the first Union minister of India to be commissioned as an officer in the Territorial Army, fulfilling his desire to follow his father's footsteps to be in the armed forces. He is therefore known as Lieutenant Pilot for being an officer in the Territorial Army.After being commissioned he said, "This has been my desire to join the army for very long as I wanted to have my links with the armed forces, like my father and grandfather. I am honoured to be part of this family."

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Age	51
DOB	Jan 12, 1964
Place of Birth	Delhi
Religion	Hindu
Education	Ajay Maken was a student of St. Xavier’s School, Delhi. Thereafter, he did his graduation in B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons.) from the Delhi University
Profession before joining politics	Businessman
Spouse Name	Smt. Radhika Maken
Children	1 son 2 daughter(s)
Important positions held	Minister of Housing and Poverty Alleviation from 2012 to 2013 Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports (independent charge)
Achievement	In 2003, at the age of 39, he became the youngest Speaker in an Indian State Assembly in the Legislative Assembly of Delhi
Residence	New Delhi
Alma mater	University of Delhi

About:

Born on the 12th of January 1964, Mr Ajay Maken served as one of the youngest Members of the Delhi Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the Rajouri Garden Constituency, first in 1993, then again in 1998 and 2003, each time with an increased vote share and margin of victory . He won the award for the best member of the Legislative Assembly for 1998-1999. He entered the political fray at 21 when he was elected the President of the Delhi University Student’s Union in 1985.

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Political career:
Ajay Maken's grandfather, O. P. Maken, was a freedom fighter and his family had political inclinations. He was elected as the President of Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) in 1985, having the rare honour of being the only B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons.) Final Year student to serve this post.His victory as President, DUSU was largely due to the massive sympathy wave generated by the assassination of his uncle Lalit Maken. , a Member of Parliament from South Delhi. Ajay Maken was subsequently elected as the President of Delhi Transport Corporation Trade Union.

Personal life
Ajay Maken is married and has three children. He received his education in St. Xavier's School, Delhi.

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Delhi State Assembly:

He was made the Parliamentary Secretary to the Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit in 1999.
In 2001, he was appointed as the Transport, Power and Tourism Minister. He implemented the CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) based Public Transport System in Delhi and is credited with the privatisation of the electricity distribution in Delhi.
In 2004, he was appointed the Speaker of Legislative Assembly of Delhi, at age 39, becoming India's youngest Speaker in a State Assembly.

Lok Sabha:

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In the 2004 general election, Maken represented the Congress for the New Delhi constituency. He defeated a sitting Cabinet Minister, Jagmohan, from the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. The constituency was a BJP stronghold, with many BJP stalwarts like Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K.Advani having been elected from there.
From 2006 to 2009, he held the independent portfolios as the Minister of State and the Minister of Urban Development, the youngest minister in the Congress to be sworn in the Council of Ministers in Indian Government. H played a key role in finalising the Master Plan for New Delhi. In 2007, he was appointed a permanent invitee to the Working Committee of All India Congress Committee. He was entrusted with the responsibility of the states, Orissa and Jharkhand.
In the 2009 general elections, Maken retained the New Delhi Parliamentary constituency. He was appointed as the Minister of State for Home Affairs, entrusted with countering left wing extremism, raising of additional police battalions, and establishment of a national human rights division. In 2011, Maken was appointed the Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs after the 2010
Commonwealth Games debacle, replacing M. S. Gill. He was appointed as Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation in 2012.
Maken was defeated in the 2014 general elections by the BJP candidate Meenakshi Lekhi. He served as the Congress General Secretary until 2015, when he resigned after party's failure to win any seat in the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election.

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Raj Shrikant Thackeray (born as Swararaj Shrikant Thackeray) is an Indian politician and the founder and president of the right-wing Marathi ethnocentric regional political party, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena ("Maharashtra Reformation Army") in the state of Maharashtra, India. He is the nephew of Bal Thackeray, and a cousin of Uddhav Thackeray, the current leader and chairperson of the Shiv Sena.

Born	June 14, 1968 (age 48), Mumbai
Full name	Swararaj Shrikant Thackeray
Spouse	Sharmila Thackeray
Political party	Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (2006–)
Parents	Shrikant Prabhodankar Thackeray, Kunda Thackeray
Education	University of Mumbai, Bal Mohan Vidya Mandir School, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art
Children	Amit (son) Urvashi (daughter)
Profession	Politician, illustrator
Religion	Hindu

Political career

Raj Thackeray resigned from his uncle's party in January 2006 and announced his intention to start a new political party. On 9 March 2006 in Mumbai, Thackeray founded party named "Maharashtra Navnirman Sena". At the time of the party's foundation, Thackeray stated that he does not want to have hostilities with his uncle who "was, is and always will be (his) mentor".

Personal life

Raj is married to Sharmila Wagh, daughter of Marathi Cinema Photographer, producer-director Mohan Wagh. They have one son named Amit Thackeray and one daughter Urvashi Thackeray.