| 1. He was born in Hisawada, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, to a very poor family. |
| 2. At a young age, he entered politics and rose from a student socialist leader to the Vice President of BJP. |
| 3. In 1968, he took part in the World Youth Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria. |
| 4. He was a student leader at Meerut College and later became an MLA from Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 5. In 1984, he switched to Congress, serving as its Rajya Sabha MP briefly before leaving due to the Bofors Scam. |
| 6. He joined Janata Dal in 1988 and won as an MP from Aligarh in 1989. |
| 7. In VP Singh's cabinet, he became the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Tourism. |
| 8. He joined BJP in 2004 and contested but lost the Lok Sabha election. |
| 9. In 2014, he was appointed as one of the 11 Vice Presidents of BJP by Amit Shah. |
| 10. In September 2017, he became the Governor of Bihar and served until August 2018. |
| 11. He took on the additional charge as the Governor of Odisha from March to May 2018. |
| 12. In August 2018, he was appointed as the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir by President Ram Nath Kovind. |
| 13. During his tenure as J&K Governor, he was present during the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, and the subsequent reorganization of the state into two Union Territories. |
| 14. He later became a vocal critic of the BJP government, raising concerns about security lapses in the 2019 Pulwama attack and corruption in the Kiru Hydropower Project. |
