Kalraj Mishra

Kalraj Mishra
Mishra in 2023
44th Governor of Rajasthan
In office
9 September 2019 – 30 July 2024
Chief MinisterAshok Gehlot
Bhajan Lal Sharma
Preceded byKalyan Singh
Succeeded byHaribhau Bagade
Governor of Himachal Pradesh
In office
22 July 2019 – 8 September 2019
Preceded byAcharya Devvrat
Succeeded byBandaru Dattatreya
Union Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
In office
26 May 2014 – 3 September 2017
Preceded byK. H. Muniyappa
Succeeded byGiriraj Singh
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
16 May 2014 – 23 May 2019
Preceded byGorakh Prasad Jaiswal
Succeeded byRamapati Ram Tripathi
ConstituencyDeoria, Uttar Pradesh
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
2012–2014
Preceded byVidya Sagar Gupta
Succeeded byAshutosh Tandon
ConstituencyLucknow East
Minister of Public Works Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh
In office
21 March 1997 – 17 August 2000
Chief MinisterMayawati
Kalyan Singh
Ram Prakash Gupta
Succeeded byOm Prakash Singh
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
7 June 2001 – 21 March 2012
Preceded byRajnath Singh
ConstituencyUttar Pradesh
In office
3 April 1978 – 2 April 1984
ConstituencyUttar Pradesh
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
In office
7 July 1986 – 7 June 2001
Constituencyelected by members of Legislative Assembly
President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh
In office
17 August 2000 – 24 June 2002
Preceded byOm Prakash Singh
Succeeded byVinay Katiyar
In office
1991–1997
Preceded byKalyan Singh
Succeeded byRajnath Singh
Personal details
Born (1941-07-01) 1 July 1941 (age 83)
Malikpur, United Provinces, British India
(present-day Uttar Pradesh, India)
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Spouse
Satyawati Mishra
(m. 1963)
Children3
OccupationPolitician
Websitekalrajmishra.com (defunct)
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Kalraj Mishra (born 1 July 1941) is an Indian politician who served as the governor of Rajasthan from 2019 to 2024. He is the former governor of Himachal Pradesh and cabinet minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the BJP-led NDA government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Being affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he was a member of Parliament from Deoria constituency in Uttar Pradesh from 2014 to 2019.

He was a member of Rajya Sabha and a MLA from Lucknow East assembly constituency. He was also President of Uttar Pradesh state unit of the BJP.

He was appointed the Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME).