Indian politics has seen many brother-sister pairings and even trios since the beginning of time, some very popular, some not very famous. While some siblings join or work in the same party, some have chosen different political paths despite being born in the same family or to the same parents.
It is not uncommon to see siblings carrying on the legacy of their family businesses, a practice that is also common in Indian politics where siblings like Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi And Kanmimozhi and MK Stalin are working to take their political legacy to new heights.
as India As Bhai Dooj celebrates, a festival that celebrates the bond between brothers and sisters, tomorrow, take a look at siblings in Indian politics, which you may or may not have heard of.
,Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi
To begin with, the Gandhi siblings of the Congress party lead the list of brother and sister pairings in Indian politics. Rahul Gandhi, Wayanad MP and former Congress President, and Priyanka Gandhi, the party’s general secretary, are children of Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi and are known to be very close to each other, forming pillars in their political careers. stand with
Rahul Gandhi has been fighting a family political battle with the Indian National Congress (INC) since 2004. Priyanka, on the other hand, joined the political race in January this year.
Kanimozhi and MK Stalin
Kanimozhi and MK Stalin, children of the late M Karunanidhi, are leading the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party. MK Stalin is the seventh and current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and has been a five-time MLA in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and one-time Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, while Kanimozhi is the MP from Thoothukudi in the Lok Sabha. constituency.
Kanimozhi is the deputy general secretary and women’s wing secretary, while Stalin is the president of the DMK party since 28 August 2018.
– Scindia siblings
Madhavrao Scindia, born to Yashodhara Scindia and Vasundhara Raje, the last ruling Raja of Gwalior, decided to follow their mother – Vijaya Raje Scindia, a prominent Indian political figure – and entered politics, but separately. Choose the way While Madhavrao Scindia was a Congress loyalist, his sisters Yashodhara and Vasundhara Raje chose the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Madhavrao Scindia, whose son Jyotiraditya left the Congress in 2020 to join the BJP, died in a plane crash in 2001. Yashodhara Raje Scindia is the minister of which state? Play and youth welfare, technical education and skill development and employment of Madhya Pradesh, while Vasundhara Raje served as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan twice from 2003 to 2008 and from 2013 to 2018.
Madhavrao Scindia founded the Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress in 1996 after being denied a Congress ticket to the Lok Sabha. The Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress joined the United Front, which was at the Center for two years. In 1998, this party again merged with the Congress.
Tej Pratap Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav and Misa Bharti
Another group of siblings who are involved in family politics are the children of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) founder and president Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi, who is also a party leader. The trio, like their parents, joined the RJD and continued their political career in the same. Tejashwi Yadav is the current Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and has had a short stint in cricket as well. In 2008, Tejashwi was signed by Delhi Daredevils to the Indian Premier League franchise of that year.
Tej Pratap is the Cabinet Minister of the Department of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the Government of Bihar. He was an MLA of Bihar Legislative Assembly from Mahua constituency as a member of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) from 2015 to 2020. Meanwhile, Misa Bharti is a Rajya Sabha MP. In 2014, Bharti contested from the Patliputra Lok Sabha constituency and lost to RJD rebel Ram Kripal Yadav, who had joined the BJP. She lost again in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the same Patliputra constituency.
Ajit Pawar and Supriya Sule
The two Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders are first cousins, while Supriya Sule is the daughter of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, Ajit Pawar is the son of Sharad Pawar’s elder brother Anantrao Pawar.
Relations between Ajit Pawar and Supriya Sule reportedly soured in 2019, when the former broke ranks to join hands with the BJP to form the government. However, despite their ups and downs in politics, these siblings have managed to transcend everything and share a close bond.
After Ajit Pawar’s surprise move to support the BJP in 2019, Supriya Sule had broken the news of a split in the Pawar family and the Nationalist Congress Party. A few days after the entire crisis was resolved, both were seen embracing it.
Jagan Mohan Reddy and Sharmila
The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh is Jagan Mohan Reddy elder brother Yeduguri Sandipthi Sharmila Reddy. Born to YS Rajasekhara Reddy and YS Vijayamma, Jagan and Sharmila have had political differences.
In February 2021, Sharmila alleged that she had political differences with her brother, who heads the YSRCP, and claimed that the party had no presence in the state of Telangana. On 9 April of the same year, Sharmila announced that she would start a new political party on 8 July. She chose the date as it is her father’s date of birth.
Before the launch of the party, he has started campaigning against the current Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government.
-Omar Abdullah and Sarah Pilot
Omar Abdullah and Sara Pilot are the children of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah. Elder son Umar became the youngest member of the Lok Sabha by joining the 12th Lok Sabha in 1998 at the age of 29. In 2002, the 49-year-old stepped down in his father’s place and became the President of the National Conference party. ,
After a good tenure, he was re-elected to the post in 2006. Omar Abdullah became the 11th and youngest Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir in January 2009, after forming the government in alliance with the Congress party.
Sara, on the other hand, is the wife of Congress leader Sachin Pilot, and is often praised for her efforts in women-related issues. She is also known for working with NGOs in the interest of the women of her state.
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