The Congress fielded Ajay Rai against Modi in 2014 as well. In 2014, Rai managed to poll only 75,000 votes and finished third, behind Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Kang, the executive director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad was on a sabbatical from CMC, Vellore to work with THSTI.
Thakur, who is contesting from the Bhopal constituency against Congress' Digvijaya Singh, is currently out on bail in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. An ABVP activist during her college days, Sadhvi Pragya had an affinity with the Hindu right-wing since her childhood.
The 45-year-old Bangladeshi actor stoked a controversy when he was seen campaigning for TMC’s Raiganj Lok Sabha candidate Kanhaiya Lal Agarwal in North Dinajpur district Sunday.
Born in Queensland in Australia, the 47-year old Computer programmer made headlines globally in the year 2010, when WikiLeaks published confidential material about American military activity in Iraq and Afghanistan over the course of several months.
KM Mani held a distinguished political record over the last six decades, becoming the longest member of the state's legislative Assembly and representing his hometown constituency of Pala in Kottayam district since 1965 when he won his debut election
Jaya Prada, who ruled the Hindi and Telegu film industry in the late 70s and 1980s, joined politics back in 1994 at the age of 32 after NT Rama Rao, the founder of the Telugu Desam Party, invited her.
Mridula Sinha, the first woman Governor of Goa, is a renowned Hindi writer. Sinha contributes regular columns in national and regional Hindi newspapers, periodicals and magazines.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika is Algeria's longest-serving head of state. Amid protests, Bouteflika announced he won't be seeking an unprecedented fifth term as president.
Despite multiple requests from India in the past, Pakistan has been denying consular access to Jadhav claiming that New Delhi wants to extract information gathered by its “spy."
The former Gujarat home minister was murdered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat by two unidentified assailants when he was sitting in his car after a morning walk in the Law Garden area.
Hailed as an American hero, Aldrin joined the Air Force after graduation and flew 66 combat missions in Korea. He later joined MIT, earning a Doctorate of Science in Astronautics.