Bandaru Dattatreya

Bandaru Dattatreya
18th Governor of Haryana
Assumed office
7 July 2021
PresidentDroupadi Murmu
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
Chief MinisterManohar Lal Khattar
Nayab Singh Saini
Preceded bySatyadev Narayan Arya
20th Governor of Himachal Pradesh
In office
11 September 2019 – 6 July 2021
Chief MinisterJai Ram Thakur
Preceded byKalraj Mishra
Succeeded byRajendra Arlekar
Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Labour and Employment
In office
9 November 2014 – 1 September 2017
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
Preceded byNarendra Singh Tomar
Succeeded bySantosh Gangwar
10th President of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Andhra Pradesh
In office
2007 - 2010
National PresidentRajnath Singh
Nitin Gadkari
Preceded byN. Indrasena Reddy
Succeeded byG. Kishan Reddy
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
16 May 2014 – 23 May 2019
Preceded byAnjan Kumar Yadav
Succeeded byG. Kishan Reddy
ConstituencySecunderabad
In office
10 March 1998 – 16 May 2004
Preceded byP.V. Rajeshwar Rao
Succeeded byAnjan Kumar Yadav
ConstituencySecunderabad
In office
20 June 1991 – 10 May 1996
Preceded byT. Manemma
Succeeded byP. V. Rajeshwar Rao
ConstituencySecunderabad
Personal details
Born (1947-06-12) 12 June 1947 (age 77)
Hyderabad, Hyderabad State, British India
(present-day Telangana, India)
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
SpouseVasantha (m. 1989)
Children3
Residence(s)Ramnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana
Alma materOsmania University (B.Sc)
ProfessionSocial worker[1]
CabinetSecond Vajpayee ministry
Third Vajpayee ministry
Modi ministry

Bandaru Dattatreya (born 12 June 1947) is an Indian politician serving as the current governor of the State of Haryana since 2021. He was also the 20th governor of Himachal Pradesh and was the member of Lok Sabha for Secunderabad from 2014 to 2019. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Born in Hyderabad, Dattatreya graduated with a science degree. He joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1965 and was imprisoned during The Emergency. In 1991, he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Secunderabad constituency for the first time. In 1997, he was appointed party president for the state unit. In 1998, he was re-elected and served as Union Minister of State for Urban Development in the second Vajpayee ministry. He was elected for a third consecutive time in 1999 and again served as a Minister of State in third Vajpayee ministry. He lost the Lok Sabha election in 2004 and 2009. The party appointed him as national vice-president in 2013. In May 2014, he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from his former constituency. In November he was made a Minister of State for Labour and Employment in the Modi ministry and became the lone minister from Telangana.

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