Venkaiah Naidu Explained

M. Venkaiah Naidu
Order:13th
Office:Vice President of India
Predecessor:Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Primeminister:Narendra Modi
Successor:Jagdeep Dhankhar
Signature:Signature of Venkaiah Naidu.svg
Office1:Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
Term Start1:6 July 2017
Term End1:17 July 2017
Primeminister1:Narendra Modi
Predecessor1:Girija Vyas
Successor1:Narendra Singh Tomar
Office2:Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting
Term Start2:5 July 2016
Term End2:17 July 2017
Primeminister2:Narendra Modi
Predecessor2:Arun Jaitley
Successor2:Smriti Irani
Office3:Union Minister of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
Term Start3:26 May 2014
Term End3:6 July 2017
Primeminister3:Narendra Modi
Predecessor3:Kamal Nath
Successor3:Narendra Singh Tomar
Office4:Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
Primeminister4:Narendra Modi
Term Start4:26 May 2014
Term End4:5 July 2016
Predecessor4:Kamal Nath
Successor4:Ananth Kumar
Office5:7th National President of Bharatiya Janata Party
Term Start5:1 July 2002
Term End5:5 October 2004
Predecessor5:Jana Krishnamurthi
Successor5:L. K. Advani
Office6:Union Minister for Rural Development
Primeminister6:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Term Start6:30 September 2000
Term End6:30 June 2002
Predecessor6:Sunder Lal Patwa
Successor6:Kashiram Rana
Office7:Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Constituency7:Rajasthan
Term Start7:5 July 2016
Term End7:10 August 2017
Predecessor7:Anand Sharma
Successor7:Alphons Kannanthanam
Constituency8:Karnataka
Term Start8:27 March 1998
Term End8:5 July 2016
Predecessor8:H. D. Deve Gowda
Successor8:Nirmala Sitharaman
Office9:3rd President of the
Bharatiya Janata Party, Andhra Pradesh
Term Start9:1988
Term End9:1993
1Blankname9:National President
1Namedata9:
Predecessor9:Bangaru Laxman
Successor9:V. Rama Rao
Office10:Member of Legislative Assembly
Andhra Pradesh
Term Start10:1978
Term End10:1985
Predecessor10:Ponneboyina Chenchuramaiah
Successor10:Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy
Constituency10:Udayagiri
Party:Bharatiya Janata Party
Birth Name:Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu
Birth Date:1949 7, df=y
Birth Place:Chavatapalem, Madras Province, Dominion of India (present-day Andhra Pradesh, India)
Children:2
Residence:1 Tyagaraja Marg, New Delhi[1]
29, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad[2]
Alma Mater:Andhra University (LLB)
Term Start:11 August 2017
Term End:11 August 2022[3]
Awards:Padma Vibhushan (2024)

Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu (born 1 July 1949) is an Indian politician who served as the 13th vice president of India from 2017 to 2022.[4] [5] He has also served as the minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi Cabinet.[6]

Naidu has also served as the national president of Bhartiya Janta Party from 2002 to 2004.[7] Earlier, he was the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.[8] [9] He took the oath as the vice president of India and the chairman of the Rajya Sabha (ex-officio as the Vice President) on 11 August 2017.[10] In 2024, The Government of India honoured him with Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award.[11] [12]

Early life

Venkaiah Naidu was born on 1 July 1949 at Chavatapalem village (near Venkatachalam) in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, to Rangaiah Naidu and Ramanamma.[13] [14] He completed his schooling from Zilla Parshad High School, Bucchireddy Palem (Nellore), and pursued his bachelor's degree in politics and diplomatic studies at V. R. College, Nellore. Later, he acquired a bachelor's degree in law with specialisation in international law from Andhra University College of Law, Visakhapatnam.[15] He was a swayamsevak in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and joined ABVP during his college days. He was elected as the president of the students' union of colleges affiliated with the Andhra University. He came into the spotlight for his prominent role in the Jai Andhra Movement of 1972. While Kakani Venkata Ratnam led the movement from Vijayawada, Naidu took active part in the agitation in Nellore, until it was called off a year later.

In 1974, he became the convener of Jayaprakash Narayan Chhatra Sangharsh Samiti of Andhra Pradesh. He took to the streets in protest against the Emergency and was imprisoned. From 1977 to 1980, he was president of its youth wing.

Political career

Both as a student leader and political figure, Naidu gained prominence as an orator who championed the cause of the farmers and the development of backward areas. His oratory skills and political activism propelled his political career, and he was elected as an MLA to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly twice from Udaygiri constituency in Nellore district in 1978 and 1983. He rose to become one of the most popular leaders of the BJP in Andhra Pradesh.[16]

After serving in various organisational posts of the BJP at the state and national level, he was elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka in 1998.[17] He was re-elected twice, in 2004 and 2010, from Karnataka.[18] [19] He served as the party spokesperson from 1996 to 2000, bringing to the job his panache for quirky alliterations and similes. Unlike most politicians from southern India, Naidu made an effort to master Hindi, going on to address public rallies in northern India.[20]

After the NDA victory in the 1999 general elections, he became the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in the government headed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.[21] He was known for aggressively pushing for reforms in rural development and for the many schemes introduced during this period such as the 'Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana'.[22] [23] [24]

President of BJP (2002–04)

Naidu succeeded Jana Krishnamurthi as the National President of the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2003.[25] On 28 January 2004, he was elected unopposed for a full three-year term.[26] After the defeat of the BJP-led NDA in the 2004 general elections, he resigned from his post on 18 October 2004 and was succeeded by L. K. Advani.[27] However, he remained at the forefront of the BJP as one of its senior vice-presidents and an important campaigner. Naidu raised the "Special Status to Andhra Pradesh" issue in Rajya Sabha (as opposition member in February 2014) and demanded special category state status to Andhra Pradesh. The Prime Minister agreed to it, though it was not included in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act.

Minister of Urban Affairs

Following the victory of the BJP in the 2014 general elections, he was sworn in as the Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs on 26 May 2014.[28]

Naidu is also involved with the Swarna Bharat Trust, a social service organisation founded by him in Nellore.[29] The trust runs a school for poor, orphaned and special-needs children and imparts self-employment training programsme, especially for women and youth.

He was nominated by the BJP on 29 May 2016 for the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan and was elected.

Vice Presidency (2017–2022)

On 5 July 2016, he concurrently served as Minister of Information and Broadcasting. A year later, he resigned from both offices to contest the 2017 vice presidential election. He won the election to become India's 13th Vice President.[30] He obtained 516 votes against UPA candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi, who received 244 votes. As his tenure ended, Naidu decided to move back to Hyderabad with his family and declared that he will resume his career in the service of the nation.[31] He was succeeded by Jagdeep Dhankhar on 11 August 2022.

Positions held

Awards and honours

State honours

RibbonDecorationCountryDateNoteRef.
Order of the Green Crescent3 August 2019Commander, the highest civilian honour of the Comoros.[33]
Padma Vibhushan India2024The second-highest civilian honour of India.[34]

Honorary degrees

Honorary Doctorate (Honoris causa) (8 March 2019)

References

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