Political families of India

Although a parliamentary democracy, Indian politics has increasing become dynastic, possibly due to the absence of a party organization, independent civil society associations that mobilize support for the party, and centralized financing of elections.[1] The dynastic phenomenon is seen from national level down to district level. One example of dynastic politics has been the Nehru–Gandhi family which produced three Indian prime ministers. Family members have also led the Congress party for most of the period since 1978 when Indira Gandhi floated the then Congress(I) faction of the party.[2] The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party also features several senior leaders who are dynasts.However, the phenomenon of dynastism is at much lower level in the BJP than the Congress party.[3][4] Dynastic politics is prevalent also in a number of political parties with regional presence.Among the regional parties, the NCP has particularly high level of dynasticism. [4]

This is a partial listing of prominent political families of India.

Nehru–Gandhi family

The Nehru family (often called Nehru–Gandhi family) was established by Motilal Nehru in the early 1900s when India was still part of the British empire. It was further established by his son, Jawaharlal Nehru, who emerged as a prominent figure in India's nationalist movement. After Nehru's death, his daughter, Indira Gandhi, became his political heir, hence, the Gandhi surname, which came from her husband Feroze Gandhi's name. The family, therefore, is not related to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has dominated the Indian rules , governing the Congress Party since the Indian independence in 1947.[5] Recent developments, however, indicate some setbacks such as the crushing defeat of the Congress Party in the 2014 elections and a series of top-level defections such as those in states like Maharashtra, Assam, West Bengal, and Jammu and Kashmir.[6] The dynasty is strongly embedded in the Indian polity that the name continues to have an instinctive hold on loyalties of so many voters.[7]

See main article The Nehru–Gandhi family


Gandhi family

Most members of Mahatma Gandhi's family have not been as active in politics as Nehru's family.

Ambedkar Family
Main article: Ambedkar family

Andhra Pradesh

The YSR Family

Kalvakuntla Family

("KCR"),.

N.T.R Family

Nara Family

("NCBN"),.

N.T.R Family

Botsa Family

Kinjarapu Family

Dharmana Family

Paritala Family

("Paritala Ravi"),.

Vangaveeti Family

("Vangaveeti Ranga"),.

Devineni Family

("Devineni Nehru"),.

Assam
  • Political families of Assam

The Ajmal family

The Gogoi family

Bihar

Yadav Family

Paswan Family

The Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha Family
  • Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha, (Freedom Fighter, Member first Lok Sabha) Known as the father of Cooperative Movement in India.
  • Ram Dulari Sinha, wife of Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha,(Freedom Fighter, Member first Vidhan Sabha) Former Union Minister & Governor. First woman from Bihar to attain Master's Degree.
    • Madhurendra Kumar Singh, Member All India Congress Committee, Ex Director Central Warehousing Corporation & Bihar State Cooperative Bank
      • Mrigendra Kumar Singh, son of Dr. Madhurendra Kumar Singh Secretary, Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee, Ex President,Sheohar Loksabha Youth Congress

Chhattisgarh

Jogi family

Shukla family

Kashyap family

Singh family

Chandigarh
  • Political families of Chandigarh

Dadra and Nagar Haveli
  • Political families of Dadra and Nagar Haveli

Daman and Diu
  • Political families of Daman and Diu

Delhi
  • Political families of Delhi

Goa
  • Political families of Goa

The Alemao family

The Bandodkar family

The Dhavalikar family

The D'Souza family

The Monserrate family

The Rane family

The Saldanha family

The Sequeira family

The Vaz family

The Zantye family

Gujarat

Haryana

The Yadav family

The Hooda family

Chotu Ram family

The Bishnoi family

The Chautala Family

Bansilal Family
  • Bansi Lal – Former Chief Minister of Haryana, Defence Minister of India, Railway Minister of India
    • Surendar Chaudary, son – Member of Parliament
      • Ranbir Mahendera, son – ex President BCCI, Ex MLA.
      • Somvir Singh, son-in-law – ex MLA
      • Kiran Chaudhary, daughter-in-law – ex Depy Speaker Delhi Assembly, Cabinet minister, Haryana

The Jindal Family
  • Om Prakash Jindal (1930–2005) – Minister of Power of Haryana (2005), Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) (1996–1997), Member of Haryana Legislative Assembly (2005, 1991–1996)
  • Savitri Jindal (1950–), wife of Om Prakash Jindal – Member of Haryana Legislative Assembly (2005–), Minister of Power of Haryana (2005–2010)
    • Naveen Jindal (1970–), son of Om Prakash and Savitri Jindal – Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) (2004–)

Rahul jogi Family

Himachal Pradesh
  • Political families of Himachal Pradesh

Singh (Raja) Family

Dhumal Family
  • Prem Kumar Dhumal , (born 10 April 1944) is an Indian politician. He previously served as Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh (2 time), from March, 1998 to March, 2003 and again from January 1, 2008 to December 25, 2012.Former Member of Loksabha from Hamirpur Loksabha constituency (3 time).
    • Anurag Singh Thakur—son ,(born 24 October 1974) is a member of Loksabha from Hamirpur loksabha constituency in Himachal Pradesh (4 time), and also currently serves as a Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs in Narendra Modi Government. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in May 2008 in a by poll as a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party.He is a four time MP, being a member of 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th Lok Sabha. He was awarded the Sansad Ratna Award in 2019 , He was the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) from May 2015 to February 2017. He became the first serving BJP Member of Parliament to become a regular commissioned Officer in the Territorial Army.

Sukh Ram Family
  • Sukh Ram (27 July 1927) is an Indian politician who served as the Minister of Communications and Information Technology from 1993 to 1996 in P V Narasimha Rao Government. He was a member of Lok Sabha from the Mandi lok sabha constituency of Himachal Pradesh(3 time). He won the Vidhan Sabha elections five times and the Lok Sabha elections three times.
    • Anil Sharma—son , (30 June 1956) He was elected to the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Mandi in the 1993, 2007, 2012 as a member of the Indian National Congress and in 2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party , Sharma was also Minister of State for Youth Services, Sports and Forest in Virbhadra Singh Government in HP from 1993 to 1996. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1998 as member of Himachal Vikas Congress which was formed by his father Sukh Ram after were expelled from the Congress party after the telecom scam. He was also Minister of Virbhadra Singh Government from 2012 to 2017 , Anil Sharma and his father Sukh Ram join BJP in 2017.He was Minister of Multi Purpose Projects, Power, Non Conventional Energy Sources in Jai Ram Thakur cabinet from 2017 to 2019.In 2019, Sukh Ram crossed over from Bharatiya Janata Party to Indian National Congress along with his grandson Aashray Sharma who was given ticket form Mandi Lok Sabha constituency as candidate of Indian National Congress. This led to resignation of Anil Sharma from his ministers post.
      • Aashray Sharma—grandson , is an indian politician and Grand-son of Sukh Ram.He was Candidate of Congress party in 2019 general election from Mandi Loksabha Constituency.And member of Indian National Congress.

Jammu and Kashmir

The Abdullah Family

The Beg Family

The Sayeed Family

Jharkhand

Narain Family of Ramgarh Raj

Soren Family

Karnataka
  • Political families of Karnataka
  • S. M. Krishna, Union cabinet minister (External affairs), ex Chief Minister of Karnataka

Devegowda Family

Former Prime Minister of India, only Prime Minister of India from Karnataka, former Chief minister of Karnataka

Former Chief Minister of Karnataka, two time Chief Minister of Karnataka.

Politician, MLA, ex-minister for Public works department, Government of Karnataka

Actor, Son of H. D. Kumaraswamy, Politician (contested 2019 General election from Mandya).

Politician, Member of 17th loksabha from Hassan, son of H. D. Revanna.

Actor, Politician (contested in 2019 General elections from Mandya loksabha constituency)

The Shamanur Family Karnataka
  • Sri. Shamanur Shivashankarappa, permanent (lifetime) Treasurer of KPCC.
  • Sri. Shamanur Mallikarjuna (son of Shamanur Shivashankarappa), former Minister of Youth and sports affairs, Govt of Karnataka.

The V.L. Patil Family Karnataka
  • V.L. Patil – former Revenue Minister, Social welfare Minister, Transport & Labour, Industry, Horticulture and Member of Parliament.
  • Pratiba Patil – former Member of District Government, Karnataka.
  • Amarsinh Vasanthrao Patil – former Member of Parliament
  • Vivekrao Vasanthrao Patil – Chairman of Karnataka Area Committee, former minister of state and President of Karnataka Milk Federation .
  • Pranaykumar Vivekrao Patil – Member of District Government, Karnataka.

Kerala

Lakshadweep
  • Political families of Lakshadweep

Madhya Pradesh

The Singh Family of Churhat
  • Rao Shiv Bahadur Singh (1894–1955) -of Churhat, Member of cabinet of Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Served sentence for bribery.
    • Arjun Singh (Son of Rao Shiv Bahadur Singh) Former Union Human resources Minister and Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
      • Ajay Arjun Singh (Son of Arjun Singh) aka Rahul Bhaiya, former Cabinet Minister in the Madhya Pradesh government, Ex Leader of Opposition

Connected Member

The Scindia Family (former Maharajas) (mother-son and daughters-grandsons)

Connected Member

The Chaudhary family of Bhind

Connected members

The Nagori family of Rajasthan State
  • Mohd. Anwar Nagori, Son Of Mohd. Ismail Nagori, MLA from Ujjain
    • Qayyum Nagori, son of Mohd. Ismail Nagori, Central Minister Deligate from Nagor

Bhuria family

Chaturvedi family

Nath family

Singh family

Vajpayee family

Maharashtra

The Thackeray Family

The Pawar Family

Family of Shankarrao Chavan

The family of Vilasrao Deshmukh

Manipur
  • Political families of Manipur

Meghalaya
  • Political families of Meghalaya

Mizoram
  • Political families of Mizoram

Nagaland
  • Political families of Nagaland

Odisha

The Patnaik Family

The Satpathy Family

The Biswal Family

  • Basanta Biswal, former Deputy Chief Minister of Odisha (formerly, Orissa)

Pondicherry
  • Political families of Pondicherry

The Reddiar Family

The Farook family

The Subbiah family

Punjab

The Badal Family – Punjab

The Brar Family – Punjab, India

  • Jaswinder Singh Brar – former Corporate Minister of Punjab: SAD
    • Mantar Singh Brar, son of Jaswinder S Brar – MLA and Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Punjab SAD (Badal)
    • Paramjit Kaur Dhillon, daughter of Jaswinder S Brar – President Municipal Corporation, SAD (Badal)
    • Balkar Singh Brar, son of Jaswinder S Brar – non-political, Chief Town Planner, Punjab
    • Kultar singh Brar,son of Jaswinder S Brar - Former chairman zila parishad (Faridkot)
      • Amarjit Singh Dullet, son-in-Law of Jaswinder S Brar – non-political, Chief engineer Irrigation and Canals, Punjab.

Singh (Amarinder) Family

Sidhu Family

Rajasthan

The Maderna Family of Rajasthan

The Mirdha Family of Rajasthan

Sikkim
  • Political families of Sikkim

Tamil Nadu

The Ramachandran Family

The Karunanidhi family – Tamil Nadu, India

The Ramadoss Family – Tamil Nadu

The Kumaramangalam Family (great grandfather, grandfather, father & son and aunt) (4 generations)

Telangana

The Kalvakuntla family

  • Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, first and current Chief Minister of Telangana
  • K. T. Rama Rao – currently serves as the Cabinet Minister for the State for different portfolios namely Information Technology (IT), Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD), Textiles and NRI Affairs and M.L.A Sircilla Youth Leader Telangana
  • K. Kavitha – was a Member of Parliament and President of Telangana Jagruthi Telangana
  • T. Harish Rao – Cabinet Minister for Finance for Telangana state Telangana

The Owaisi family

Tripura
  • Political families of Tripura

The Singh family

  • Asish Lal Singh, President of Tripura Pradesh Trinamool Congress

Uttar Pradesh

The Yadav Family

The Singh (Kalyan) Family

an)|Pankaj Singh]], son of Rajnath Singh, MLA

The Bahuguna Family

Jagat singh devali Deepak singh devali

West Bengal

The Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Family

The Das Family

The Ashutosh Mukherjee Family

The Naidu Family

The Mukherjee Family

The Dasmunsi Family

The Khan-Chowdhury Family

The Banerjee Family of South Kolkata

The Bandopadhyay Family of North Kolkata

The Ahmed Family

The Chatterjee Family of Bolpur, Birbhum district

Unsorted

The Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy Family

  • Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy – former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
  • Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, son of Late Dr. Y. S. RajaSekhara Reddy – Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh
  • Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy, brother of Late Dr. Y. S. RajaShekara Reddy – former MP Kadapa, current MLC Andhra Pradesh
  • Y. S. Vijayamma, wife of Late Dr. Y. S. Rajashekara Reddy – MLA Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh
  • P. Raveendranath Reddy, brother-in-law of Late Dr. Y. S. Rajashekara Reddy – Mayor Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh

The Charan Singh Family

  • Charan Singh (1902–87), freedom fighter, Prime Minister of India (1979), Deputy prime minister of India (1978), Home minister of India (1977), finance minister of India, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (1967, 1970), minister in Uttar Pradesh, farmers leader.
  • Gayatri Devi, wife of Charan Singh – Member of Parliament, MLA
    • Ajit Singh (1939—), son – Minister of Industry India (1989), minister of food (1994), Minister of Agriculture (2002–04), seven-term Member of Parliament. President RLD
      • Jayant Chaudhary (1978—), son of Ajit Singh – MP from Mathura
    • Saroj Singh, daughter of Charan Singh – MLA
    • Gyanwati, daughter of Charan Singh – MLA

P.V.Narasimha Rao's Family

  • Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June 1921 – 23 December 2004) – politician, first person outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime Minister for five continuous years (1991–96), former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh)
    • P.V. Rangarao, son of P. V. Narasimha Rao – former cabinet minister and MLA from HanmaKonda Assembly Constituency for two terms
    • P.V. Rajeshwar Rao son of P. V. Narasimha Rao – former Member of Parliament

Anugrah Narayan Sinha's Family

The Satpathy Family

The Mishra Family

The Mishra Kehunia Family

The Owaisi Family

The K. Karunakaran Family

The Pilot Family

The Naik Family

The Bhoi Family

  • Dr. Krupasindhu Bhoi – Member of Parliament, Congress, Odisha

The Reddy Brothers, Karnataka

  • G. Janardhana Reddy – Tourism Minister of Karnataka.
  • G. Karunakara Reddy – member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Harpanahalli assembly constituency of Karnataka and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
  • G. Somashekara Reddy – member (MLA) of the Vidhan Sabha of Karnataka representing the Bellary assembly constituency of Karnataka and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party.

The Masood family

The Mahajan Family


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