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Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
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A Member of Parliament of Lok Sabha is the representative of the Indian people to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of Parliament of Lok Sabha are chosen by elections on the basis of the adult suffrage. Parliament of India is bicameral with two houses, Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha, the maximum permitted strength of Members of Parliament in the Lok Sabha is 552. The majority party in the Lok Sabha chooses the Prime Minister of India, the first instance of Member of Parliament equivalent in India dates back to 9 December 1946, the day Constituent Assembly of India was formed with the purpose of drafting a constitution for India. As opposed to be elected on the basis of adult suffrage, muslims and Sikhs were given special representation as minorities. The Constituent Assembly of India took 2 years,11 months and 17 days to draft the Constitution for Independent India and was dissolved in 1949, on 26 January 1950, the Indian Constitution came into force and the first general elections were held in 1951-1952. The 1st Lok Sabha was constituted on 17 April 1952 and had 489 constituencies, a person must satisfy all following conditions to be qualified to become a Member of Parliament of the Lok Sabha, Must be a citizen of India. Must not be less than 25 years of age, must be a voter for any parliamentary constituency in India. Candidate of a political party needs one proposer from his constituency for his nomination. An independent candidate needs ten proposers, candidates are required to make a security deposit of ₹10,000. A person would be ineligible for being a Member of the Lok Sabha if the person, has ceased to be a citizen of India. Is so disqualified by any law made by the Indian Parliament, is so disqualified on the ground of defection. Has been convicted, among other things, for promoting enmity between different groups, has been convicted for offence of bribery. Has been punished for preaching and practicing social crimes such as untouchability, dowry, has been convicted for an offence and sentenced to imprisonment. Has been dismissed for corruption or for disloyalty to the State, the term of a Member of Parliament of Lok Sabha is five years from the date appointment for its first meeting. During a state of emergency, the term however can be extended by the Parliament of India by law for a period not exceeding one year at a time, after the state of emergency ends, the extension cannot exceed beyond a period of six months. Broad responsibilities of the Members of parliament of Lok Sabha are, Legislative responsibility, oversight responsibility, To ensure that the executive performs its duties satisfactorily. Representative responsibility, To represent the views and aspirations of the people of their constituency in the Parliament of India, power of the purse responsibility, To approve and oversee the revenues and expenditures proposed by the government
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Govinda Ahuja
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Govind Arun Kumar Ahuja, known mononymously as Govinda, is an Indian film actor, comedian and former politician known for his work in Hindi films. Known for his skills, Govinda has received twelve Filmfare Award nominations, a Filmfare Special Award, a Filmfare Award for Best Comedian. The actor was a member of the Parliament of India from 2004 to 2009. Govindas first film was 1986s Ilzaam, in June 1999, He was voted the tenth-greatest star of stage or screen in a BBC News Online poll. During the 1980s, Govindas films spanned genres and included family, drama, action and he started out as an action hero in the 80s and reinvented himself as a comedy hero in 90s. At one time, Amitabh co-starred with him on his comeback to rejuvenate his market when his films failed miserably. He was recognised the decade as a comic actor after playing a mischievous young NCC cadet in the 1992 romance Shola Aur Shabnam. Govinda had lead roles in commercially successful comedy films, including Aankhen, Raja Babu. 1, Hero No.1 and Haseena Maan Jaayegi and he received a Filmfare Best Comedian Award for Haseena Maan Jayegi and a Filmfare Special Award for Saajan Chale Sasural. Govinda has played roles in several movies, including Jaan Se Pyaara, Aankhen, Bade Miyan Chote Miyan. He played six roles in Hadh Kar Di Aapne, Raju, after a number of box-office flops in the 2000s, his later commercial successes included Bhagam Bhag, Partner, Life Partner etc. In 2015 Govinda became a judge on Zee TVs dance-based reality show, Dance India Dance Super Mom Season 2, the show received the highest TRP of any reality-show opening episode. Govinda was elected the member of parliament for the Mumbai North constituency of Maharashtra, India in the 14th Lok Sabha elections in 2004. Govinda was born on 21 December 1963 to former actor Arun Kumar Ahuja and singer-actress Nirmala Devi into a family with Punjabi, Arun is best known for Mehboob Khans Aurat. He produced one film, and became ill shortly afterwards. The family, living in a bungalow on Mumbais Carter Road, the youngest of six children, he was given the pet name Chi Chi, meaning little finger in Punjabi, the language spoken at home. After Govinda received a Bachelor of Commerce degree, his father suggested a career in film, around this time, Govinda saw the film Disco Dancer, afterwards, he practised for hours and circulated a promotional VHS cassette. He was offered jobs in a commercial and an Allwyn ad. His first lead role was in Tan-Badan, directed by his uncle Anand, Govinda began shooting for his next film, Love 86, in June 1985
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian politician who was the 10th Prime Minister of India, first for 13 days in 1996 and then from 1998 to 2004. A leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he is the first Prime Minister from outside the Indian National Congress party to serve a full five-year term, a parliamentarian for over four decades, Vajpayee was elected to the Lok Sabha ten times, and twice to the Rajya Sabha. He also served as the Member of Parliament for Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, until 2009, Vajpayee was one amongst the founder members of erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which he had also headed. He was also the Minister of External Affairs in the cabinet of Morarji Desai, when Janata government collapsed, Vajpayee restarted the Jana Sangh as the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1980. On 25 December 2014 the office of President of India announced the Bharat Ratna award, Indias highest civilian honour, in a special gesture, the President of India conferred Bharat Ratna to Atal Bihari Vajpayee in his residence on 27 March 2015. His birthday,25 December, was declared Good Governance Day, Vajpayee was born to Krishna Devi and Krishna Bihari Vajpayee on 25 December 1924 in Gwalior. His grandfather, Pandit Shyam Lal Vajpayee, had migrated to Morena and his father, Krishna Bihari Vajpayee, was a poet and a schoolmaster in his hometown. Vajpayee studied from the Government Higher secondary school, Gorkhi, Bara, Vajpayee attended Gwaliors Victoria College and graduated with distinction in Hindi, English and Sanskrit. He completed his post-graduation with an M. A. in Political Science from Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College, Kanpur and his activism started with Arya Kumar Sabha of Gwalior, the youth wing of the Arya Samaj, of which he became the General Secretary in 1944. He also joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh as a swayamsevak in 1939, influenced by Babasaheb Apte, he attended the Officers Training Camp of the RSS during 1940-44 and became a full-time worker in 1947, technically a pracharak. He gave up studying law due to the partition riots and he was sent as a vistarak to Uttar Pradesh and quickly began working for the newspapers of Deendayal Upadhyaya, Rashtradharma, Panchjanya and the dailies Swadesh and Veer Arjun. Vajpayee never married and has remained a bachelor his entire life, in 1951, he was seconded by the RSS, along with Deendayal Upadhyaya, to work for the newly formed Bharatiya Jana Sangh, a Hindu right-wing political party associated with the RSS. He was appointed as a secretary of the party in charge of the Northern region. He soon became a follower and aide of party leader Syama Prasad Mookerjee, in 1954, Vajpayee was with Mookerjee when he went on a fast-unto-death in Kashmir to protest against perceived inferior treatment of non-Kashmiri Indian visitors to the state. Mookerjee died in prison during this strike, in 1957, Vajpayee lost to Raja Mahendra Pratap in Mathura for the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indias Parliament, but was elected from Balrampur. There, his skills so impressed Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that he predicted that Vajpayee would someday become Indias Prime Minister. By virtue of his oratorical and organizational skills, he became the face of the Jana Sangh, after the death of Deendayal Upadhyaya, the mantle of the leadership of Jana Sangh fell on the shoulders of a young Vajpayee. He became the president of the Jana Sangh in 1968 and, along with Nanaji Deshmukh, Balraj Madhok and L. K. Advani
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Mani Shankar Aiyar
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Mani Shankar Aiyar is a former Indian diplomat turned politician. He is a member of the Indian National Congress party and was a part of first Cabinet of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and he has served as the Union Minister of Panchayati Raj until he lost his seat in the 2009 election. He served as the Union Cabinet Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas from May 2004 through January 2006 and Ministry of Youth Affairs and he was also the first Minister of Development of North Eastern Region. He represented the Mayiladuthurai constituency of Tamil Nadu in the 14th Lok Sabha and he is currently a nominated member of parliament from Rajya Sabha. He was defeated from Mayiladuthurai in 2014 Lok Sabha election where he finished fourth, Mani Shankar Aiyer is the son of Vaidyanatha Shankar Aiyar, a chartered accountant, and Bhagyalakshmi Shankar Aiyar. He was born in Laxmi Mansions, Lahore in British India which, as post-Partition refugee property and his younger brother is the well known journalist, Swaminathan Aiyar. He lost his father at age 12 in an air crash and he attended Welham Boys School, The Doon School and obtained B. A. in Economics from St. Stephens College, Delhi, University of Delhi. While at Doon, he was an editor of The Doon School Weekly, after the loss of his father, Aiyars mother had to negotiate with Doon to allow him to continue his studies with reduced fees and in return she taught at the school. He was a member of Trinity Hall and he was also an active member of the Marxist Society in Cambridge. At Cambridge, Aiyar joined student politics and once tried to win a presidential contest. Rajiv Gandhi, who was his junior both at Doon and Cambridge, supported him in his campaign and he joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1963 and served as Joint Secretary to Government of India. He spent some time in Pakistan posted as a diplomat, serving as Indias first consul-general in Karachi from 1978 to 1982 and he is a special invitee to the Congress Working Committee and a chairman of both the partys political training department and the department of policy planning and coordination. He is also a political columnist and has written several books, including Pakistan Papers and Remembering Rajiv. His special interests include, grassroots democracy, Indian foreign policy particularly with Indias neighbouring countries and West Asia and he was married on 4 January 1973 to Suneet Mani Aiyar. He also ordered that a plaque with a poem commemorating Savarkar be replaced with a plaque with quotes from Mahatma Gandhi, Savarkar had been tried and acquitted for conspiring in Gandhis assassination. Reports of the incident paralysed Parliament and led to agitations by the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, Aiyars remarks created confusion as well in the ruling party, the official spokesman, Anand Sharma, noted that the Congress Party did not consider Savarkar either a freedom fighter or a patriot. A few days later, the Prime Minister dissociated himself and the cabinet from that view, Aiyar was also involved in a public brawl with politician Amar Singh. According to Singh, Aiyar insulted Singhs then party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and remarked and it could be because my father visited Uttar Pradesh at some point
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