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26th Chief Election Commissioner of India
Gyanesh Kumar is a former IAS officer who currently serves as the Chief Election Commissioner of India. He came under scrutiny during the 2025 Indian electoral controversy and the 2026 Indian electoral controversy, where the Election Commission of India (ECI) was accused of collusion with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of having engaged in electoral fraud.
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12th Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha since 2024
Rahul Rajiv Gandhi is an Indian politician. A member of the Indian National Congress (INC), he is currently serving as the 12th leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and as the member of the Lok Sabha for Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, since June 2024. He previously represented the constituency of Wayanad, Kerala, from 2019 to 2024, and Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, from 2004 to 2019. Gandhi served as the party president of the Indian National Congress from December 2017 to July 2019.
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Indian politician (born 1964)
Amit Anilchandra Shah is an Indian politician who has served as the 31st Minister of Home Affairs since 2019, the longest-serving holder of the office in Indian history. Additionally he has been the 1st Minister of Co-operation since July 2021. He is also the member of parliament (MP) for Gandhinagar. He served as the 10th president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020. He has also served as chairman of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) since 2014. He had been elected as a member of the upper house of parliament, Rajya Sabha, from Gujarat from 2017 to 2019.
More on Wikipedia ↗The Supreme Court has stayed trial court proceedings in a criminal defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his 2019 remarks targeting PM Narendra Modi, issuing notices to the Maharashtra government and complainant