Prem Kumar Dhumal (pronounced [preːmə kʊmaːrə d̪ʱuːmələ], Hindi: प्रेम कुमार धूमल [??] ( listen); born 10 April 1944) is the 12th and current chief minster of Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. He is an Indian politician who is a 2 time Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh from March 1998 to March 2003 and again since 31 December 2007.

Prem Kumar Dhumal was born to Capt. Mahant Ram and Smt. Phulmu Devi on 10 April 1944, in the Samirpur of Hamirpur District, Punjab, British India.

Mr. Dhumal started his career as an Assistant with the Life Insurance Corporation of India, having completed his Post Graduation in English literature and a degree in Law, while, first working with LIC and later as a teacher with the Panjabi University Evening College Jalandhar and then educated from Doaba College, Jalandhar city. He had also captained College volleyball team for three consecutive years.

Controversy technically Mr. Dhumal is not Prof. Dhumal because he is not awarded with a Phd and he worked as an English lecturer for a private college. Another controversy his media advisor with some other big fishes were found in company of call girls in Shimla. Rajinder Rana was sacked after few days.. Rajinder rana was later given clean chit ironically investigation in this case was also made by state CID which is under Mr. Dhumal himself as he is the head of home ministry.

  Prem Kumar is a Malayalam film artist. He did many notable roles in Tele films and TV Operas. He acted in more than 100 films in which he was the hero in 18 films.^{[citation needed]}

During college days, Prem Kumar was very active in arts and literature. He has won many State level awards as Best Actor in drama competitions. He was selected as the panel artist of All India Radio and Doordarshan during his college days. He has staged many classic characters like Macbeth, Coreo launus, Oedipus, Othello, etc. His performance as these characters were very much appreciated by critics as well as audience.

After that he landed into the malayalam film industry starting off his career with some petty roles as a side actor. He is best known his comedy roles in Malayalam movies. His movies in the lead role which did not find much success in the box office.

Virbhadra Singh (born June 23, 1934) is, as of March 2012, the Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of the Republic of India. This is a cabinet position in the United Progressive Alliance government, led by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He has previously held several national political offices and has also been Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh state on five occasions, from 1983 to 1990, from 1993 to 1998 and from 2003 to 2007. He is a member of the Indian National Congress.

Virbhadra Singh was born on 23 June 1934 in Sarahan, Simla, Himachal Pradesh. His father was Sir Padam Singh and Virbhadra was thus heir to the princely state of Bushahr. He succeeded to the position of king of the state at the age of 13 in 1947.^{[citation needed]}

Singh was educated at the Colonel Brown Cambridge School in Dehradun^{[citation needed]} and at Bishop Cotton School in Simla. Following this, he attended St. Stephen's College, Delhi, from which he obtained a BA Honours degree, and then pursued a post-graduate course at Delhi University.^{[citation needed]}