Meet These 10 Diverse Faces Of India's Young Leaders
Tejasvi Surya (33)
Tejasvi Surya is a young BJP leader who entered politics through the ABVP student organization and became a Lok Sabha MP at age 28.
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Nusrat Jahan (33)
Nusrat Jahan is an actress-turned-politician who won the 2019 election to become an MP from West Bengal with the Indian National Congress at age 29.
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Aditya Thackeray (33)
Aaditya Thackeray, grandson of Balasaheb Thackeray and the son of Shiv sena leader Uddhav Thackeray, entered politics in 2019. He won an assembly seat in Maharashtra to carry on his familys Shiv Sena party legacy.
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Tejashwi Prasad Yadav (34)
Tejashwi Yadav, son of Lalu Prasad Yadav, became the youngest Deputy CM in India in 2015 at age 26 and now leads the opposition in the Bihar assembly.
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Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu (35)
Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu won election as an MP in 2014 at age 26 with the Telugu Desam Party, where he now serves as a national general secretary.
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Dushyant Chautala (35)
Dushyant Chautala formed his own Jannayak Janta Party in 2019 and at age 31 became the Deputy CM of Haryana in coalition with the BJP.
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Raghav Chadha (35)
Raghav Chadha rose within the Aam Aadmi Party and became their national treasurer, narrowly losing a 2019 Lok Sabha election bid.
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Kanhaiya Kumar (36)
Kanhaiya Kumar is an activist and former student leader who gained fame protesting the BJP government and ran unsuccessfully for parliament with the Communist Party in 2019.
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Jaivardhan Singh (37)
Jaivardhan Singh became the youngest cabinet minister in Madhya Pradesh in 2018 at around age 33 as a member of the states ruling party.
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Nupur Sharma (38)
Nupur Sharma was the national spokesperson for the BJP from 2020-2022 after being politically active in college and serving as president of the Delhi University student union.
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