National and International Appointments

Dayanidhi Maran served as the Minister of Textiles in the UPA government. M.K. Azhagiri was Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister, Mukul Wasnik was Social Justice and Empowerment Minister, and Kumari Selja was Tourism Minister.

A. Raja served as the Minister of Communications and Information Technology in the UPA government. B.K. Handique was Mines Minister, Ambika Soni was Information and Broadcasting Minister, and Anand Sharma was Commerce and Industry Minister.

Ambika Soni served as the Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the UPA II government (2009-2012). M. Veerappa Moily was Corporate Affairs Minister, Meira Kumar was Speaker of Lok Sabha, and Vilasrao Deshmukh held various portfolios but not Information and Broadcasting.

Mallikarjun Kharge served as the Minister of Labour and Employment in the UPA II government. Dayanidhi Maran held the Textiles portfolio, S.M. Krishna was External Affairs Minister, and P. Chidambaram was Finance Minister.

Kapil Sibal served as the Minister of Human Resource Development (now Education) in the UPA II government. Ambika Soni was I&B Minister, S. Jaipal Reddy held Science and Technology, and Vayalar Ravi was Overseas Indian Affairs Minister.

Anand Sharma served as the Minister of Commerce and Industry in the UPA II government. Pawan K. Bansal held Parliamentary Affairs, A. Raja was in Telecom (before resigning), and Rahul Pandey is not a known cabinet minister.

Dr M.S. Gill served as the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports in the UPA II government. Mallikarjun Kharge was Labour Minister, Kamal Nath held Road Transport, and Ghulam Nabi Azad was Health Minister.

K. Rosaiah (full name Konijeti Rosaiah) was the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 2009-2010, succeeding Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy after his death. The other options are CMs of different states: Shivraj Singh Chauhan (Madhya Pradesh), Ramesh Pokhriyal (Uttarakhand), and Pawan Kumar Chamling (Sikkim).

Dorjee Khandu was the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh from 2007-2011. The other options are CMs of different states/regions: Omar Abdullah (Jammu & Kashmir), Raman Singh (Chhattisgarh), and Lal Thanhawla (Mizoram). Khandu was a prominent leader from the Tawang district of Arunachal.

Tarun Kumar Gogoi served as the Chief Minister of Assam from 2001 to 2016, making him the longest-serving CM in the state's history. The other options are CMs of different states: Hooda (Haryana), Gehlot (Rajasthan), and Rio (Nagaland).

Nitish Kumar has been the Chief Minister of Bihar for multiple terms since 2000 (with a brief gap). The distractors are CMs of other states: Dhumal (Himachal Pradesh), Vaithilingam (Pondicherry), and Badal (Punjab).

Sheila Dikshit served as the Chief Minister of Delhi for three consecutive terms from 1998 to 2013. The other options are CMs of different states: Chavan (Maharashtra), Thanhawla (Mizoram), and Chauhan (Madhya Pradesh).

Narendra Modi served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 before becoming Prime Minister of India. The distractors are politicians from other states: Chavan (Maharashtra), Yadav (Bihar), and Thanhawla (Mizoram).

Bhupinder Singh Hooda served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 2005 to 2014. The distractors include CMs/leaders of other states: Pokhriyal (Uttarakhand), Chamling (Sikkim), and Badal (Punjab).

Omar Abdullah served as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 2009 to 2015. The other options are CMs of different states: Dhumal (Himachal Pradesh) and Rio (Nagaland).