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Gopinath Munde

BJP is expected to go to state Assembly elections under Munde's leadership

Ravi Shankar Prasad

The BJP leader from Bihar has had three terms from the RS and several stints as Union minister

Ananth Kumar

Kumar's entry into the cabinet is Modi's effort to keep the Advani camp in good humour

Smriti Irani

Irani is perceived as a younger Sushma Swaraj in the Modi camp

Najma Heptullah

She is the only minister from the Muslim community in the Modi Cabinet

Kalraj Mishra

Mishra represents the powerful Brahmin lobby in Uttar Pradesh

Anant Geete

Geete is a close confidant of Shiv Sena chief late Bal Thackeray and his son Uddhav

Jual Oram

He is the party's Scheduled Tribe face in the Cabinet

Uma Bharti

Bharti shot into fame for her fiery speeches during the controversial Ayodhya-Ram Janmabhoomi movement

D V Sadananda Gowda

Gowda shot to fame after assuming post of Karnataka CM

Shahnawaz Hussain

The former civil aviation minister in the NDA govt lost the Bhagalpur seat to RJD's Shaliesh Kumar in the 2014 general elections

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is the Vice-President of the BJP and the party's most prominent Muslim member

Meenakshi Lekhi

Meenakshi Lekhi is a Supreme Court lawyer and national spokesperson of the BJP

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

This MP from Jaipur Rural, Rajasthan, won the silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics

IIT Gandhinagar to move to new campus by next year

The first phase will see construction of classrooms and the next phase construction of hostels

Andhra chief secretary urges electricity staff to call off strike

Mohanty in his address to mediapersons said it was not the right time for the staff to go on strike and urged them to call off the move

Pujari likely to be elected Speaker today

Sanand Marani front runner in Dy Speaker race

BJD non-committal on support to NDA

BJD's MP from Dhenkanal Tathagata Satpathy has been appointed party's chief whip in Lok Sabha

Odisha finance departments to finalise annual budget estimates soon

State Plan size tentatively pegged at Rs 35,000 cr for 2014-15 which includes Rs 2,000 cr for public sector undertakings

Naveen decides to skip Modi swearing-in

Political observers say the Odisha Chief Minister has perhaps towed the line of his counterparts from Tamil Nadu and West Bengal