Major Jaswant Singh Jasol (pronunciation, 3 January 1938 – 27 September 2020)[3] was an officer of the Indian Army and an Indian Cabinet Minister. He was one of the founding members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),[4] and was one of India's longest serving parliamentarians, having been a member of one or the other house almost continuously between 1980 and 2014.[5] He was NDA’s Vice-presidential candidate in the 2012 Indian vice presidential election.