Top 9 Greatest Indian Politicians of All Time

Politicians are people who are involved in politics, particularly in party politics. Positions range from local to regional and national government executive, legislative, and judicial offices. Some elected law enforcement officers, such as sheriffs, are political figures.

Posted On June 8th, 2021

Narendra Modi

Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician who has been the country's 14th and current Prime Minister since 2014. He served as Gujarat's chief minister from 2001 to 2014 and is a Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party and its National Democratic Alliance.

Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal is an Indian politician and former bureaucrat who has served as Delhi's 7th Chief Minister since February 2015. He was also the Chief Minister of Delhi from December 2013 to February 2014, resigning after only 49 days in office.

Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi is an Indian politician and member of the 17th Lok Sabha, representing the Wayanad constituency in Kerala. He was a member of the Indian National Congress and served as its President from December 16, 2017, to July 3, 2019.

Jayalalithaa

Jayaram Jayalalithaa was an Indian politician and film actress who served as Tamil Nadu's chief minister six times between 1991 and 2016. Unfortunately, she died in the year 2016 after 75 days of hospitalization.

Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar is an Indian politician who has been the 22nd Chief Minister of Bihar, India's largest state, since 2015 and has previously held the position five times. He has also served as a Union minister in the Indian Union Government. Kumar is a member of the Janata Dal (Secular).

Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh is an Indian economist, academic, and politician who was the country's 13th Prime Minister from 2004 to 2014. He was also the country's first Sikh prime minister, was also the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after serving a full five-year term.

L. K. Advani

Lal Krishna Advani is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004 under Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Advani is one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi is a politician from India. She is the president of the Indian National Congress, a left-wing political party that has ruled India for the majority of its post-independence history. She is known for leaving her prime ministership for the sake of a man’s well-being who didn’t want her as a prime minister because she is from Italy.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an Indian statesman who served as Prime Minister of India three times, first for 13 days in 1996, then for 13 months from 1998 to 1999, and finally for a full term from 1999 to 2004. Vajpayee was a co-founder of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a senior leader of the party.