Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States.He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois,from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.

Born in Honolulu,Hawaii,Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School,where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review.He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree.He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. We are looking queries from Maharashtra.

Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He was the first Vice President of India (1952–1962) and subsequently the second President of India (1962–1967).

One of India's most influential scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, Radhakrishnan is thought of as having built a bridge between the East and the West by showing that the philosophical systems of each tradition are comprehensible within the terms of the other. He wrote authoritative exegeses of India's religious and philosophical literature for the English speaking world. His academic appointments included the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta (1921–1931) and Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics at Oxford University (1936–1952).

Among the many honours he received were a knighthood (1931), the Bharat Ratna (1954) and the Order of Merit in 1963. His birthday is celebrated in India as Teachers' Day on 5 September. We are looking queries from Maharashtra.

Lal Bahadur Shastri was the second Prime Minister of independent India. Though diminutive in physical stature he was a man of great courage and will. He successfully led country during the 1965 war with Pakistan. To mobilize the support of country during the war he coined the slogan of "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan".Lal Bahadur Sastri also played a key role in India's freedom struggle. He led his life with great simplicity and honesty and was a great source of inspiration for all the countrymen. We are looking queries from Maharashtra.

Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar popularly known as Sharad Pawar), is the president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian National Congress. He has previously held the posts of Minister of Defense and Chief Minister of Maharashtra and currently serves as Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India.

Pawar is from the town of Baramati in the Pune District of Maharashtra. He leads the NCP delegation in the Lok Sabha, representing his constituency of Madha in Maharashtra. He has a prominent place in Indian national politics as well as regional politics of Maharashtra, although marred by frequent corruption allegations.

Vasantrao Naik was an Indian politician who served as Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1963 until 1975. He was born in Gavli, Pusad in 1913. His experience in grassroots politics made him a responsible legislator. He was a staunch supporter of Yashwantrao Chavan.

He was a Member of Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh during 1952-1957, the then bilingual Bombay State during 1957-1960 and of Maharashtra during 1960 to 1977. In 1952 he was appointed Deputy Minister for Revenue in the Government of Madhya Pradesh. He was made Minister for Cooperation in 1957 and later Minister for Agriculture in the Government of Bombay State. From 1960 to 1963 he was Minister for Revenue in Government of Maharashtra.

Rajiv Gandhi was the youngest Prime Minister of India. He became Prime Minister at the age of 40. Rajiv Gandhi came from a family that had great political lineage. He was the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi. Her mother Indira Gandhi and grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru were Prime Ministers of Indian. As a Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi made a valuable contribution in modernizing Indian administration. He had the vision and foresight to see that information technology will play a key role in the 21 century and worked actively to develop India's capacity in this realm.

Smt.  Patil assumed office as the 12th President of India on July 25, 2007.  She is the first woman to have been elected to this august office. At the young age of 27 years, she successfully contested her first election to the Maharashtra State Legislature from the Jalgaon Assembly constituency.  Subsequently she was continuously elected four  times as MLA from the Edlabad (Muktai Nagar) constituency  till 1985. Thereafter, she served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from 1985 to 1990 and  later  elected as a Member of Parliament to the 10th Lok Sabha in the 1991 General Elections from the Amravati constituency.  She enjoys the unique distinction of not having lost a single election that she contested till date.

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms (1966–77) and a fourth term (1980–84).She was assassinated by Sikh extremists.Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka,and she remains as the world's second longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2011.She was the first woman to become prime minister in India.

Gandhi was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru,the first prime minister of independent India.She adhered to the quasi-socialist policies of industrial development that had been begun by her father.Gandhi established closer relations with the Soviet Union,depending on that nation for support in India’s long-standing conflict with Pakistan.She was also the only Indian Prime Minister to have declared a state of emergency in order to 'rule by decree' and the only Indian Prime Minister to have been imprisoned after holding that office.

Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan (12 March 1913 - 25 November 1984) was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra after the division of Bombay State and the fifth Deputy Prime Minister of India. He was a strong Congress leader, Cooperative leader, social activist and writer. He was popularly known as Leader of Common People. He advocated socialist democracy in his speeches and articles and was instrumental in establishing co-operatives in Maharashtra for the betterment of the farmers.

Bal keshav thackeray^[1] (marathi: [ake]; born 23 january 1926^[1]), popularly known as Hinduhriday Ssamraat Balasaheb Thackeray, is an indian politician, founder and chief of the Shiv Sena, a right-wing hindu nationalist, and marathi ethnocentric party active mainly in the western indian state of Maharashtra.

Dr. rajendra prasad ( pronunciation (help·info) hindi: ) (3 december 1884 – 28 february 1963) was an indian politician and educator. He was one of the architects of the indian republic, having drafted its first constitution and serving as the first president of independent india (26 january 1950 – 13 may 1962). rajendra prasad is the only president in india to have been elected twice for the post. ^[1]

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Hindi: [pronounced]; born 25 December 1924) is an Indian statesman who served as the tenth Prime Minister of India three times – first for a brief term of 13 days in 1996, and then for two terms from 1998 to 2004. After his first brief period as Prime Minister in 1996, Vajpayee headed a coalition government from 19 March 1998 until 19 May 2004. A parliamentarian for over four decades, Vajpayee was elected to the Lok Sabha a record nine times, and to the Rajya Sabha twice.^[1] He served as the Member of Parliament for Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, until 2009, when he retired from active politics due to health concerns. Vajpayee belongs to Right-wing nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is seen as liberal face of the BJP. He is gifted orator and also a poet.