On Wednesday, veteran RJD chief Lalu Prasad grew to become the one one to file the nomination for celebration president, thus reclaiming the submit he has held for the reason that celebration’s inception in 1997. That makes him the president for the twelfth consecutive time and would carry his tenure to 25 years.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav was elected the celebration president for the third consecutive time Thursday, a submit he held since 2017. Earlier than that, his father Mulayam Singh Yadav was the one president of the SP since its inception in 1992.
And they don’t seem to be the one ones:
Lifetime:
In July this yr, Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy discovered 22 units of nominations in his favour to pave the way in which for him to turn into the ‘lifetime’ president of the YSRCP. Final week, the Election Fee directed the celebration to make a “clear and categorical public announcement” on the problem. Social gathering functionaries instructed The Indian Categorical on the time that the celebration will doubtless write again that whereas Jagan was elected unanimously, elections could be held for the submit of celebration president throughout YSRCP plenaries sooner or later.
50 years
DMK supremo M Karunanidhi was on the helm of affairs of his celebration from 1969 till his loss of life in August 2018. A month prior, in July that yr, he had entered his fiftieth yr, the primary chief within the nation to be the president of the celebration for such an extended interval.
29 years
Whereas at current a battle is on between former Tamil Nadu CM O Panneerselvam and ex-Deputy CM Edappadi Okay Palaniswami over the management of the AIADMK, celebration supremo J Jayalalitha was its basic secretary from 1987, following the loss of life of celebration founder M G Ramachandran, until her personal passing in 2016. In September 2017, she was named the “everlasting basic secretary” of the celebration when the OPS and EPS factions got here collectively after her loss of life. In July this yr, EPS grew to become the interim basic secretary of the AIADMK.
23 years
In September this yr, Sharad Pawar was re-elected the president of the NCP for the eighth consecutive time period. He has held the submit for 23 years since 1999, the yr the NCP was fashioned after splitting from the Congress.
22 years
After she took over in 1998 because the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi has held the submit for 22 years, making her its longest-serving one. Sonia confronted challenges within the preliminary years of her tenure, when Sharad Pawar and P A Sangma resigned citing her international origin in 1991, and Jitendra Prasada challenged her for the submit in 2001. Rahul Gandhi was elected to the submit in December 2017 however held it solely till July 2019, when he resigned citing the loss within the 2019 basic elections. Sonia then took over once more as ‘interim president’, and continues.
19 years
BSP founder Kanshi Ram was the president of the organisation from 1984 to 2003, a interval of 19 years. Mayawati succeeded to the submit and her tenure has additionally entered her nineteenth yr.
10 years
In 2006, senior Janata chief Sharad Yadav was elected the celebration president and held on to the submit until 2016, after which present Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar took over. Senior celebration chief Lalan Singh is the celebration president in the mean time.
The BJP has an higher restrict of two consecutive phrases for the submit of celebration president, owing to an modification made in 2012. LK Advani was its longest serving president for about 10 years at totally different durations (1986-1990; 1993-1998; 2004-2005). Nonetheless, the celebration has by no means had elections to the submit since its inception, with candidates being chosen unanimously.