Dharmendra Pradhan

Dharmendra Pradhan

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 May 2014
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Veerappa Moily
Personal details
Born	(1969-06-26) 26 June 1969 Talcher, Odisha
Nationality	Indian
Political party	BJP
Spouse(s)	Mridula Pradhan
Children	Nishant Pradhan & Naimisha Pradhan
Residence	Talcher, Odisha
Religion	Hindu
As of 22 September, 2006

Dharmendra Pradhan (born 26 June 1969) is a promising BJP leader, and the current Minister of State (with Independent charge) for Petroleum and Natural Gas in the Narendra Modi led NDA Government .He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in March 2012 from Bihar state.^[1] Pradhan was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Deogarh constituency of Orissa.He is a member of BJP and RSS.He is the son of former BJP MP Dr.Debendra Pradhan.

Pradhan is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party. In addition to being a General Secretary, he was assigned additional responsibility to look after the party activities in Jharkhand in August 2011.^[2]

Positions

Minister of State(Independent), 2014-
Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), Bihar: 2012-2014
Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha): 2004 to 2009 · Deogarh, Odisha, India
Bharatiya Janata Party All India General Secretary - 2010 to present
In-charge BJP Karnataka: 2011 to 2013
Co-Incharge - BJP Bihar: 2010 to present - State Elections
In-charge Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM): 2010 to present
In-Charge BJP Jharkhand: Election in Charge Uttarakhand
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha National President: 2004 to 2006
Bharatiya Janata Party: National Secretary · 2007 to 2010
In-charge Chhattisgarh: 2007 to 2010
In-charge - BJP Bihar: 2013 to end

References

↑ "BJP gives in to JD(U) pressure, denies Rajya Sabha ticket to Ahluwalia". Indian Express. 20 March 2012.
↑ "Press: Sh. Dharmendra Pradhan & Sh. Murlidhar Rao given addl. responsibility". Indian Express. 18 August 2011.

Narendra Modi Ministry

Prime Minister: Narendra Modi

Cabinet Ministers

Agriculture	Radha Mohan Singh

Chemicals and Fertilizers	Ananth Kumar

Civil Aviation	Ashok Gajapathi Raju

Communications and IT	Ravi Shankar Prasad

Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution	Ram Vilas Paswan

Corporate Affairs	Arun Jaitley

Defence	Manohar Parrikar

Drinking Water and Sanitation	Ch. Birender Singh

Earth Sciences	Harsh Vardhan

External Affairs	Sushma Swaraj

Finance	Arun Jaitley

Food Processing Industry	Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Information and Broadcasting	Arun Jaitley

Health and Family Welfare	Jagat Prakash Nadda

Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises	Anant Geete

Home Affairs	Rajnath Singh

Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation	M. Venkaiah Naidu

Human Resource Development	Smriti Irani

Labour and Employment	Bandaru Dattatreya

Law and Justice	D. V. Sadananda Gowda

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises	Kalraj Mishra

Mines	Narendra Singh Tomar

Minority Affairs	Najma Heptulla

Overseas Indian Affairs	Sushma Swaraj

Panchayati Raj	Ch. Birender Singh

Parliamentary Affairs	M. Venkaiah Naidu

Personnel, Public Grievances. and Pensions	Narendra Modi

Railways	Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu

Rural Development	Ch. Birender Singh

Science and Technology	Harsh Vardhan

Social Justice and Empowerment	Thaawar Chand Gehlot

Space	Narendra Modi

Steel	Narendra Singh Tomar

Shipping and Road Transport and Highways	Nitin Gadkari

Tribal Affairs	Jual Oram

Urban Development	M. Venkaiah Naidu

Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation	Uma Bharati

Women and Child Development	Maneka Gandhi

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

AYUSH	Shripad Yesso Naik

Coal	Piyush Goyal

Commerce and Industry	Nirmala Sitharaman

Culture	Mahesh Sharma

Development of North Eastern Region	Jitendra Singh

Environment and Forests	Prakash Javadekar

Labour and Employment	Bandaru Dattatreya

New and Renewable Energy	Piyush Goyal

Planning Commission	Inderjit Singh Rao

Petroleum and Natural Gas	Dharmendra Pradhan

Power	Piyush Goyal

Skill Development and Entrepreneurship	Rajiv Pratap Rudy

Statistics and Programme Implementation	V. K. Singh

Textiles	Santosh Kumar Gangwar

Tourism	Mahesh Sharma

Youth Affairs and Sports	Sarbananda Sonowal

Ministers of State

Agriculture	Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Mohanbhai Kundariya

Atomic Energy	Jitendra Singh

Chemicals and Fertilizers	Hansraj Ahir

Civil Aviation	Mahesh Sharma

Defence	Inderjit Singh Rao

Drinking Water and Sanitation	Ram Kripal Yadav

Earth Sciences	Y S Chowdary

Food Processing Industry	Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti

Finance	Jayant Sinha

External Affairs	V. K. Singh

Health and Family Welfare	Shripad Yesso Naik

Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises	G.M. Siddeshwara

Home Affairs	Kiren Rijiju Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary

Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation	Babul Supriyo

Human Resource Development	Ram Shankar Katheria Upendra Kushwaha

Information and Broadcasting	Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises	Giriraj Singh

Mines	Vishnu Deo Sai

Minority Affairs	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Overseas Indian Affairs	V. K. Singh

Panchayati Raj	Nihalchand

Parliamentary Affairs	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Rajiv Pratap Rudy

Personnel, Public Grievances. and Pensions	Jitendra Singh

Prime Minister's Office	Jitendra Singh

Railways	Manoj Sinha

Road Transport and Highways	Pon Radhakrishnan

Rural Development	Sudarshan Bhagat

Science and Technology	Y S Chowdary

Social Justice and Empowerment	Vijay Sampla Krishna Pal

Steel	Vishnu Deo Sai

Shipping	Pon Radhakrishnana

Space	Jitendra Singh

Tribal Affairs	Mansukhbhai Vasava

Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation	Sanwar Lal Jat

Urban Development	Babul Supriyo

Bharatiya Janata Party

Presidents	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) Lal Krishna Advani (1986–91) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Lal Krishna Advani (1993–98) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Lal Krishna Advani (2004–06) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–present)

Current Vice Presidents	B. S. Yeddyurappa Bandaru Dattatreya Om Prakash Mathur Parsottambhai Rupala Raghubar Das Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Satyapal Singh Malik Prabhat Jha Kiran Maheshwari Dinesh Sharma Renu Devi Vinay Sahasrabuddhe

Other prominent leaders	Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Yashwant Sinha Subramanian Swamy Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Prime Ministers	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi

Current Chief ministers	Anandiben Patel Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Laxmikant Parsekar Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das

Spokespersons	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M. J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Nalin Kohli Sambit Patra Anil Baluni GVL Narsimha Rao Gopal Krishna Agarwal

General Secretaries	P. Muralidhar Rao Kailash Vijayvargiya Muralidhar Rao Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Anil Jain Ram Lal Arun Singh

Morcha	Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP SC Morcha BJP ST Morcha BJP OBC Morcha BJP Minority Morcha BJP Kisan Morcha

Related organisations	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh

Others	Hindutva Integral humanism

Members of the 14th Lok Sabha from Odisha

BJD (11)	Archana Nayak Arjun Charan Sethi Bhartruhari Mahtab Braja Kishore Tripathy Brahmananda Panda Harihar Swain Mohan Jena Prasanna Acharya Prasanna Kumar Patasani Sugrib Singh Tathagata Satapathy

BJP (7)	Ananta Nayak Bikram Keshari Deo Dharmendra Pradhan Jual Oram Mahamegha Bahan Aira Kharbela Swain Parsuram Majhi Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo

Congress (2)	Chandra Sekhar Sahu Giridhar Gamang

JMM (1)	Sudam Marndi

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