Pon Radhakrishnan

For other uses, see Radhakrishnan (disambiguation).

Pon Radhakrishnan


Minister of State Shipping, Road Transport and Highways
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 November 2014
Preceded by	Krishan Pal Gurjar
Member of the India Parliament for Kanyakumari
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 May 2014
Preceded by	J Helen Davidson
Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways
In office 24 January 1999 – May 2004
Personal details
Born	(1952-03-01) March 1, 1952 Alathankarai, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Residence	Nagercoil, India
Profession	Lawyer
Religion	Hinduism

Pon Radhakrishnan (born 1 March 1952) is an Indian politician representing Bharatiya Janata Party. He is currently serving as Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping in Narendra Modi's cabinet. He has served as the minister of state for Youth affairs and Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation in Third Vajpayee Ministry. He is elected to Lok Sabha from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu.

Political career

Radhakrishnan won the 1999 Lok Sabha election from Nagercoil constituency and became Minister of State for Youth Affairs in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government of 1999-2004. Later, he also served as Minister of State for Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation.^[1] Radhakrishnan lost the elections in 2004 and 2009.^[2]

He was president of Tamil Nadu state unit of the Bharathya Janata Party, resigning the position when he became a Minister of State in the Narendra Modi-led government.^[3] He had won in a Lok Sabha seat in the Indian general election, 2014, from Kanyakumari constituency by a margin of 1,28,662 votes.^[4]

Personal life

Pon Radhakrishnan is from Alathankarai, Nagercoil and is a lawyer by profession.^[2]

References

↑ "Pon Radhakrishnan". India. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
1 2 "P Radhakrishnan Biography". Election. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
↑ "Tamilisai Sounderrajan appointed BJP TN unit president". The Hindu. The Hindu. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
↑ "Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha Elections and Results 2014". Elections. Retrieved 19 September 2015.

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Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Tamil Nadu State

15th LS Members 17th LS Members

GE 2014	A. Anwhar Raajhaa A. Arunmozhithevan Anbumani Ramadoss B. Senguttuvan C. Gopalakrishnan C. Mahendran G. Hari J. Jayavardhan Jeyasingh Thiyagaraj Natterjee K. Ashok Kumar K. Gopal K. Kamaraj K. Maragatham K. N. Ramachandran K. Parasuraman K. R. P. Prabakaran M. Chandrakasi M. Thambidurai M. Udhayakumar M. Vasanthi P. Kumar P. Nagarajan P. R. Sundaram P. Venugopal P.R. Senthilnathan Pon Radhakrishnan R. Gopalkrishnan R. K. Bharathi Mohan R. P. Marutharajaa R. Parthipan R. Vanaroja S. R. Vijayakumar S. Rajendran S. Selvakumara Chinnayan T. G. Venkatesh Babu T. Radhakrishnan V. Elumalai V. Pannerselvam V. Sathyabama

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from States: AP BH CT GA GJ HR HP JK JH KL KA MP MH OR PB RJ TN TS UP UT WB Northeast: AR AS MN ML MZ NL SK TR Union Territories: AN CH DN DD LD DL PY

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

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