Indira Gandhi Profile

Name : Indira Priyadarshini Nehru

Party Name : Indian National Congress

Parent’ Name: Nehru , Kamala

Date of Birth:19.11.1917

Birth Place : Allahabad

Spouse : Feroze Gandhi

Children : Rajiv, Sanjay

Educational Qualifications : Somerville College, Oxford

Profession : Politician

Died :31.10.1984

Profile :     

Indira Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917, in Allahabad, India. Gandhi was born into the politically prominent Nehru family; her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, served as India’s first prime minister. Gandhi served three consecutive terms as prime minister, between 1966 and 1977, and another term beginning in 1980. In 1984, Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.

Political Life

Gandhi was elected president of the Indian National Congress in 1960. After her father’s death, Gandhi was appointed minister of information and broadcasting. When her father’s successor, Lal Bahadur Shastri, died abruptly in 1966, India’s congress appointed her to the post of prime minister.
She surprised her father’s old colleagues when she led with a strong hand, sacking some of highest-ranking officials. Gandhi subsequently brought about great change in agricultural programs that improved the lot of her country’s poor. For a time, she was hailed as a hero.

Assassination

During the 1980s, a Sikh separatist movement developed in India, which Gandhi attempted to repress. Sikh extremists held a campaign inside the Golden Temple, and Gandhi ordered some 70,000 soldiers to purge the sacred space. More than 450 people died.

On October 31, 1984, a trusted bodyguard, who was a Sikh, pulled out a .38 revolver and shot her point-blank. Another bodyguard, also a Sikh, then took out an automatic weapon and shot 30 rounds into her body. Gandhi died on the way to the hospital.

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Rahul Gandhi Profile

Name : Rahul Gandhi

Party Name : Indian National Congress

Parent’ Name: Late Shri Rajiv Gandhi, Smt. Sonia Gandhi

Date of Birth:19.06.1970

Birth Place : Delhi

Maritial Status : Unmarried

Educational Qualifications : M.Phil. (Development Economics) Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University, U.K.

Profession : Politician

Profile :

Positions : 

1.     2004 Elected, to 14th Lok Sabha Member, Committee on Home Affairs

2.     5 Aug. 2006Member, Committee on Home Affairs

3.     5 Aug. 2007 onwardsMember, Committee on Human Resource Development

4.     2009Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (2nd term)

5.     31 Aug. 2009Member, Committee on Human Resource Development

6.     Social and Cultural ActivitiesAssociated with Rajiv Gandhi Foundation; Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund; Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Trust; Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust  

Abdul Kalam Profile

Name : Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

Date of Birth : 15.10.1931

Birth Place: Dhanushkodi, RameswaramI

Educational Qualifications: Madras Institute of Technology St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirapalli

Parent’s : Ashiamma Jainulabiddin, Jainulabiddin Marakayar

Profession :Professor, author, scientist, president, Aerospace engineer

Personal

Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam born on 15th October 1931 at Rameswaram, in Tamil Nadu, , specialized in Aero Engineering from Madras Institute of Technology.
Before his term as India's president, he worked as an aeronautical engineer with DRDO and ISRO. He is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on development of ballistic missile and space rocket technology.[5]. In India he is highly respected as a scientist and as an engineer.
Kalam played a pivotal organisational, technical and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear test in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.[6] He is a professor at Anna University (Chennai) and adjunct/visiting faculty at many other academic and research institutions across India.

With the death of R. Venkataraman on January 27, 2009, Kalam became the only surviving former President of India.
Political views

APJ Abdul Kalam views on certain issues have been espoused by him in his book India 2020 where he strongly advocates an action plan to develop India into a knowledge superpower and into a developed nation by the year 2020. Kalam is credited with the view that India ought to take a more assertive stance in international relations; he regards his work on India's nuclear weapons program as a way to assert India's place as a future superpower.

Kalam continues to take an active interest in other developments in the field of science and technology as well. He has proposed a research programme for developing bio-implants. He is a supporter of Open source software over proprietary solutions and believes that the use of open source software on a large scale will bring more people the benefits of information technology..


Kalam's father was a devout Muslim, who owned boats which he rented out to local fishermen and was a good friend of Hindu religious leaders and the school teachers at Rameshwaram. APJ Abdul Kalam mentions in his biography that to support his studies, he started his career as a newspaper vendor. This was also told in the book, A Boy and His Dream: Three Stories from the Childhood of Abdul Kalam by Vinita Krishna. The house Kalam was born in can still be found on the Mosque street in Rameshwaram, and his brother's curio shop abuts it. This has become a point-of-call for tourists who seek out the place. Kalam grew up in an intimate relationship with nature, and he says in Wings of Fire that he never could imagine that water could be so powerful a destroying force as that he witnessed when he was thirty three. That was in 1964 when a cyclonic storm swept away the Pamban bridge and a trainload of passengers with it and also Kalam's native village, Dhanushkodi.


Kalam has also patronised grassroots innovations. He is closely associated with the Honey Bee Network and The National innovation Foundation. The NIF is a body of Government of India and operates from Ahmadabad, Gujrat. He respects all religions, including Sikhism and Hinduism.

Abdul Kalam graduated from Madras Institute of Technology majoring in Aeronautical Engineering. As the Project Director, he was heavily involved in the development of India's first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III). As Chief Executive of Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP), he also played a major part in developing many missiles of India including Agni and Prithvi. Although the entire project has been criticised for being overrun and mismanaged[10]. He was the Chief Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister and Secretary, Department of Defence Research & Development from July 1992 to December 1999. Pokhran-II nuclear tests were conducted during this period, led by him.


On Wednesday April 29, 2009, he became the first Asian to be bestowed the Hoover Medal, America's top engineering prize, for his outstanding contribution to public service. Kalam has received honorary doctorates from as many as thirty universities, including the Carnegie Mellon University and the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore.

The Government of India has honoured him with the nation's highest civilian honours: the Padma Bhushan in 1981; Padma Vibhushan in 1990; and the Bharat Ratna in 1997 for his work with ISRO and DRDO and his role as a scientific advisor to the Indian government..

Kalam is the Third President of India to have been honoured with a Bharat Ratna before being elected to the highest office, the other two being Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Zakir Hussain. He is also the first scientist and first bachelor to occupy Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Narendra Damodardas Modi Profile

Name : Narendra Damodardas Modi

Date of Birth : 17.09.1950

Birth Place: Vadnagar, Mehsana district, Gujarat

Educational Qualifications: Masters Degree in Political Science

Parent’s :Damodardas Mulchand Modi, Heeraben

Sibling: Soma Prahlad Pankaj, Amrut & Vasanti

Spouse: Ashodaben Chimanlal Modi

Personal
    Narendra was born on September 17, 1950, Gujarat, India. He was born in Vadnagar, a town in the northern Mehsana district of Gujarat.Narendra Modi completed his schooling in Vadnagar and did his masters degree in Political Science from Gujarat University.
Modi started as a Tea-Seller on Ahmedabad Bus Station and by utilising his adversity to his benefits a trait that has become a hallmark of his political career too, achieved something many Indians at his social level could not. Wife Jashodaben.

Awards and recognitions

1.     Gujarat Ratna by Shri Poona Gujarati Bandhu Samaj at Ganesh Kala Krida Manch on celebration of centenary year.

2.     e-Ratna award by the Computer Society of India

3.     Best Chief Minister – In a nationwide survey conducted in 2007 by India Today magazine, Narendra Modi was declared the Best Chief Minister in the country.

4.     Asian Winner of the fDi Personality of the Year award for 2009 by FDi magazine.

5.     In March 2012, Modi appeared on the cover of the Asian edition of Time, one of India's few politicians to have done so.

6.     Modi was featured in Time's 2014 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

7.     Modi (@narendramodi) has become the most followed Asian leader on Twitter