Top 5 Political News Headlines 2014: India
India as a country made headlines all over the world for the 2014 General Elections which took place in nine phases. Also, as per information shared the 2014 elections earned a spot for themselves in India political history as there is no official leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha. Such a situation arose earlier when Jawahar Lal Nehru and Rajiv Gandhi were elected as Prime Ministers.
Apart from this, India as a nation made strong statements before other countries of the world when the newly appointed Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi visited nations such as USA, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Nepal, Fiji, Bhutan and Mayanmar within few months of becoming the PM of the country.
General Elections 2014
The General Elections were held in India from April 7, 2014 to May 12, 2014. A total of 8,251 candidates contested for the 543 Lok Sabha seats, this year. The average election turnout over all the election phases was (around) 66.38%.
Statistics shared reveal that as many as 54 crore people voted in the General Elections of 2014. The results for the elections were declared on May 16, 2014, wherein it was shared that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 336 Lok Sabha seats. Out of this number, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is known to have won 282 seats.
On the other hand the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) won 58 seats. Out of this number, the Congress won 44 seats.
After this historic win Narendra Modi was chosen as the 15th Prime Minister of India. His swearing-in ceremony was held on May 26, 2014. PM Modi’s swearing-in also created history by being the only such ceremony which was attended by heads of all SAARC nations.
Also, mentioned below are the name and ministries held by various ministers in India:
| Name |
Ministry |
| Prime Minister of India |
|
| Narendra Damodardas Modi |
Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space; All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister |
| Cabinet Ministers |
|
| Rajnath singh |
Home Minister |
| Sushma Swaraj |
External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs |
| Arun Jaitley |
Finance, Corporate Affairs, Information & Broadcasting |
| Venkaiah Naidu |
Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs |
| Nitin Jairam Gadkari |
Road Transport and Highways |
| Manohar Parrikar |
Defence |
| Suresh Prabhu |
Railways minister |
| DV Sadananda Gowda |
Minister of Law and Justice |
| Uma Bharti |
Minister of Water Resorces and Ganga Rejuvenation |
| Najma A Heptulla |
Minority Affairs |
| Ram Vilas Paswan |
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
| Kalraj Mishra |
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises |
| Maneka Gandhi |
Women and Child Development |
| Ananth Kumar |
Chemicals and Fertilizers |
| Ravi Shankar Prasad |
Communications and Information Technology |
| Jagat Prakash Nadda |
Health & Family Welfare |
| Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati |
Civil Aviation |
| Anant Geete |
Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises |
| Harsimrat Kaur Badal |
Food Processing Industries |
| Narendra Singh Tomar |
Mines, Steel |
| Ch Birender Singh |
Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation |
| Jual Oram |
Tribal Affairs |
| Radha Mohan Singh |
Agriculture |
| Thawar Chand Gehlot |
Social Justice and Empowerment |
| Smriti Zubin Irani |
Human Resource Development (HRD) minister |
| Dr.Harsh Vardhan |
Science and Technology, Earth Sciences |
| Ministers of State |
|
| Bandaru Dattatreya |
Labour and Employment |
| Dharmendra Pradhan |
Petroleum and Natural Gas |
| GM Siddeshwara |
Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises |
| Giriraj Singh |
Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises |
| Hansraj Gangaram Ahir |
Chemicals & Fertilizers |
| Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary |
Home Affairs |
| Jayant Sinha |
Finance |
| Jitendra Singh |
Development of North Eastern Region, Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space |
| Kiren Rijiju |
Home Affairs |
| Krishan Pal |
Social Justice & Empowerment |
| Nihalchand |
Panchayati Raj |
| Nirmala Sitharaman |
Commerce and Industry, Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs |
| Mahesh Sharma |
Culture, Tourism, Civil Aviation |
| Manoj Sinha |
Railway |
| Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava |
Tribal Affairs |
| Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya |
Agriculture |
| Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi |
Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs |
| Prakash Javadekar |
Environment, Forest and Climate Change |
| Piyush Goyal |
Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy |
| Pon Radhakrishnan |
Road Transport & Highways, Shipping |
| Rajiv Pratap Rudy |
Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Parliamentary Affairs |
| Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore |
Information & Broadcasting |
| Ram Kripal Yadav |
Drinking Water & Sanitation |
| Ram Shankar Katheria |
Human Resource Development |
| Rao Inderjit Singh |
Planning, Defence |
| Raosaheb Dadarao Danve |
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
| Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti |
Food Processing Industries |
| Sanjeev Kumar Balyan |
Agriculture |
| Santosh Gangwar |
Textiles |
| Sanwar Lal Jat |
Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation |
| Sarbananda Sonowal |
Youth Affairs and Sports |
| Shripad Yasso Naik |
AAYUSH, Health & Family Welfare |
| Sudarshan Bhagat |
Rural Development |
| Babul Supriyo |
Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation |
| Upendra Kushwaha |
Human Resource Development |
| Vijay Kumar Singh |
Statistics and Programme Implementation, External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs |
| Vijay Sampla |
Social Justice & Empowerment |
| Vishnu Deo Sai |
Mines, Steel |
| YS Chowdary |
Science and Technology, Earth Science |
Andhra Pradesh Divided
The state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) was split into two on June 2, 2014 as per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2014. The two states that were formed on splitting AP are Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad will be the joint capital for these states for the next 10 years. K Chandrasekar Rao was made the Chief Minister of the state of Telangana.
Due to the splitting of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India now has 29 states and seven union territories.
Gopinath Munde Dead
The Union Rural Development Minister of India, Gopinath Munde died in a car crash on June 3, 2014. Munde lost his life to a car accident when he was headed towards the Delhi Airport at 6:20 am on the fateful day.
The accident occurred at the Prithviraj Road and Aurobindo Chowk cross-section, in the city of New Delhi, when a speeding Indica (car) hit the minister’s SX4 in the wee hours of the morning.
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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Launched
The Government of India launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on October 2, 2014 at Rajghat in New Delhi. As part of this national level campaign the Government has identified 4041 statutory towns wherein citizens would be encouraged to clean and thereafter maintain the cleanliness of the street, roads and infrastructure of the country.
As part of this initiative PM of India, Narendra Modi nominated nine people to take part in this campaign. Following which those nine people would nominate another nine people to take the baton forward. The first nine nominees were:
- Mridula Sinha, Goa Governor
- Sachin Tendulkar, Cricketer
- Baba Ramdev, Yoga guru
- Shashi Tharoor, Congress minister
- Kamal Hasan, Actor
- Priyanka Chopra, Actor
- Salman Khan, Actor
- Anil Ambani, Industrialist
- The team of popular TV serial: Tarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chashma
Chief Guest for Republic Day 2015
As per information shared, Barack Obama will be the Chief Guest for India’s Republic Day parade to be held in 2015. This information was shared by PM Narendra Modi on his twitter page stating that “This Republic Day, we hope to have a friend over…invited President Obama to be the 1st US President to grace the occasion as Chief Guest”.
The same was confirmed by the US National Security Council twitter account which states that “@ invite of @narendramodi, President Obama will travel to #India in Jan 2015 to participate in Indian Republic Day celebration as Chief Guest”.
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