Pon Radhakrishnan

Pon Radhakrishnan
Minister of State for Finance
In office 3 September 2017 – 24 May 2019
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Minister	Arun Jaitley
Preceded by	Arjun Ram Meghwal
Succeeded by	Anurag Thakur
Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways
In office 9 November 2014 – 3 September 2017
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Minister	Nitin Gadkari
Preceded by	Krishan Pal Gurjar
Succeeded by	V. K. Singh
In office 8 September 2003 – 22 May 2004
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Minister	B. C. Khanduri
Preceded by	Shripad Naik
Succeeded by	K. H. Muniyappa
Minister of State for Shipping
In office 9 November 2014 – 24 May 2019
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Minister	Nitin Gadkari
Preceded by	Krishan Pal Gurjar
Succeeded by	Mansukh L. Mandaviya (as MoS Independent charge)
Member of the Indian Parliament for Kanyakumari
In office 5 June 2014 – 18 June 2019
Preceded by	J. Helen Davidson
Succeeded by	H. Vasanthakumar
Member of the Indian Parliament for Nagercoil
In office 1999–2004
Preceded by	N. Dennis
Succeeded by	A. V. Bellarmin
Personal details
Born	(1952-03-01) 1 March 1952 (age 72) Nagercoil, Travancore-Cochin, India (now in Tamil Nadu, India)
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Residence(s)	Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India
Alma mater	Scott Christian College, Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College, Chennai
Profession	Lawyer, Politician

Pon Radhakrishnan (born 1 March 1952) is an Indian politician representing the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Shipping between May 2014 and May 2019.^[1] Earlier, he served as the Union Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways in the NDA government. He has also 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 was elected to Lok Sabha from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu in 2014. He lost in the recent 2019 and 2021 (by-election) parliamentary elections.