Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, was Uttarakhand Chief Minister between 2009 and 2011. He became a Lok Sabha member in 2014. On December 3, 2014, while participating in a debate on The School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) Bill in the Lok Sabha, Mr. Pokhriyal said: “Science is a dwarf in front of astrology.” He went on to add, “Astrology is the biggest science. It is in fact above science. We should promote it.... We speak about nuclear science today. But Sage Kanad conducted nuclear test one lakh years ago.”
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| Rajnath Singh | Santosh K Gangwar | Faggansingh Kulaste |
| Amit Shah | Rao Indrajit Singh | Ashwini Kumar Choubey |
| Nitin Gadkari | Shripad Y Naik | Arjun Ram Meghwal |
| DV Sadanand Gowda | Dr. Jitendra Singh | General (Retd.) V. K. Singh |
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| Thawar Chand Gehlot | Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti | |
| Dr. S Jaishankar | Babul Supriyo | |
| Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank | Sanjeev Kumar Balyan | |
| Arjun Munda | Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao | |
| Smriti Irani | Anurag Singh Thakur | |
| Dr. Harshvardhan | Angadi Suresh Channabasappa | |
| Prakash Javadekar | Nityanand Rai | |
| Piyush Goyal | Rattan Lal Kataria | |
| Dharmendra Pradhan | V. Muraleedharan | |
| Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | Renuka Singh Saruta | |
| Prahalad Joshi | Som Parkash | |
| Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey | Rameswar Teli | |
| Arvind Sawant | Pratap Chandra Sarangi | |
| Giriraj Singh | Kailash Choudhary | |
| Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | Debasree Chaudhuri |
