Harshvardhan Singh

Harshvardhan Singh

MP(elect) of Rajya Sabha for Rajasthan ^[1]
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 July 2016
Preceded by	Ram Jethmalani, Independent
Constituency	Rajasthan
Personal details
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Profession	Politician

Harshvardhan Singh is a Rajya Sabha member from Rajasthan belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Family

He is the only son of the present Maharaja of Dungarpur, Sri Mahipal Singhji. So he is the crown prince of Dungarpur. He has two daughters. Elder daughter (Shivatmika) is given in marriage to Jaideepsinhji, the crown prince of Rajkot. Younger daughter (Trishika) is the Maharani of Mysore. She is the wife of Maharaja Yaduveer Wodeyar, the Maharaja of Mysore.

Politics

Harshvardhan Singh is member of Bharatiya Janata Party. In June 2016, elections to the Rajya Sabha were held and his party made him a candidate from his home state, Rajasthan. He secured 40 votes in the Rajasthan state assembly and won the election to the Rajya Sabha. This happened just at the time when his second daughter's wedding ceremony was being held, and so the period was most happy and auspicious.

References

↑ http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/bjp-wins-all-seats-from-rajasthan/article8718901.ece

Rajya Sabha members from Rajasthan for term 2014–2020

Elected in 2014 for full term	Vijay Goel Narayan Lal Panchariya Ramnarayan Dudi

Lok Sabha members from RJ 15th Lok Sabha (2009-2014) 16th Lok Sabha (2014-2019)

Bharatiya Janata Party

Presidents	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) Lal Krishna Advani (1986–91) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Lal Krishna Advani (1993–98) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Lal Krishna Advani (2004–06) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–present)

Current Vice Presidents	Satya Pal Malik Parsottambhai Rupala Prabhat Jha Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Renu Devi Dinesh Sharma Om Prakash Mathur Shyam Jaju Avinash Rai Khanna

Other prominent leaders	Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Yashwant Sinha Subramanian Swamy Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Sushil Kumar Modi Himanta Biswa Sarma

Prime Ministers	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi

Current Chief ministers	Vijay Rupani Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Laxmikant Parsekar Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das Sarbananda Sonowal

Spokespersons	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M. J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Siddharth Nath Singh Nalin Kohli Shaina NC Sambit Patra Anil Baluni GVL Narsimha Rao Gopal Krishna Agarwal

General Secretaries	P. Muralidhar Rao Kailash Vijayvargiya Muralidhar Rao Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Anil Jain Ram Lal Arun Singh

Morcha	Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP SC Morcha BJP ST Morcha BJP OBC Morcha BJP Minority Morcha BJP Kisan Morcha

Related organisations	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh

Others	Hindutva Integral humanism

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