Ghulam Nabi Azad
Ghulam Nabi Azad (born 7 March 1949) is an Indian politician who served as Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha between 2014 and 2021.He was bestowed with the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, in 2022 by the Indian Government in the field of Public Affairs.[6] Ghulam Nabi Azad was born in a village named Soti of Gandoh tehsil (Bhalessa) in the formerly princely state of Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district.[13][14] He has suggested a late marriage age of between 25 and 30 for population control, and has said that lack of electricity & thereby absence of TV entertainment in rural areas will cause people to produce more children.[16] In 2015, Azad got re-elected to the Rajya Sabha from Jammu and Kashmir, despite the PDP-BJP alliance holding a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly.
Padma BhushanLeader of the OppositionRajya SabhaMohammad Hamid AnsariVenkaiah NaiduAnand SharmaArun JaitleyMallikarjun KhargeUnion Minister of Health and Family WelfareManmohan SinghAnbumani RamadossHarsh VardhanChief Minister of the state of Jammu & KashmirSrinivas Kumar SinhaNarinder Nath VohraMufti Mohammad SayeedOmar AbdullahMember of Parliament, Rajya SabhaSaifuddin SozJammu and KashmirMember of Parliament, Lok SabhaVasantrao NaikAnantrao Vithhalrao DeshmukhWashim, MaharashtraDemocratic Progressive Azad PartyIncumbentUnion Minister of Parliamentary AffairsSushma SwarajPriya Ranjan DasmunsiP. V. Narasimha RaoVidya Charan ShuklaPramod MahajanSatya Prakash MalaviyaBhalessaIndian National CongressShameema Dev AzadAlma materGovernment Degree Colleges, BhadarwahG.G.M. Science CollegeUniversity of JammuUniversity of KashmirMinister of Health and Family WelfareChief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir2002 Assembly election in Jammu and KashmirGandohDoda districtZoologySeventh Lok SabhaWashim (Lok Sabha constituency)Eighth Lok SabhaPeople's Democratic PartysecondNational Democratic AllianceLok SabhaRam Nath KovindOutstanding Parliamentarian AwardParliament House, New DelhiRahul GandhiCongress7th Lok Sabha8th Lok SabhaThe HinduThe Times of IndiaLeader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha2020–2029Syed Muazzem AliMuzaffar Hussain BaigAjoy ChakrabartyManoj DasB. V. DoshiKrishnammal JagannathanS. C. JamirAnil Prakash JoshiTsering LandolAnand MahindraN. R. Madhava MenonSri MadhukarnathManohar ParrikarJagdish ShethP. V. SindhuVenu SrinivasanK. S. ChithraTarun GogoiChandrashekhara KambaraSumitra MahajanNripendra MisraRam Vilas PaswanKeshubhai PatelKalbe SadiqRajnikant Devidas ShroffTarlochan SinghVictor BanerjeeGurmeet BawaBuddhadeb BhattacharjeeNatarajan ChandrasekaranKrishna EllaMadhur JaffreyDevendra JhajhariaRashid KhanRajiv MehrishiSatya NadellaSundar PichaiCyrus PoonawallaSanjaya RajaramPratibha RaySwami SachchidanandVashishth TripathiKumar Mangalam BirlaS. L. BhyrappaDeepak DharVani JairamChinna JeeyarSuman KalyanpurKapil KapoorSudha MurtyKamlesh D PatelFathima BeeviMithun ChakrabortyAshwin Balachand MehtaSatyabrata MookherjeeRam NaikTejas PatelO. RajagopalRajduttTogdan RinpochePyarelal Sharma