Venkaiah Naidu
| Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu | |
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| Minister of Information and Broadcasting | |
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Assumed office 5 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Arun Jaitley |
| Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation | |
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Assumed office 26 May 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Girija Vyas |
| Minister of Rural Development | |
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In office 30 September 2000 – 30 June 2002 |
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| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Preceded by | Sunder Lal Patwa |
| Minister of Parliamentary Affairs | |
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In office 26 May 2014 – 5 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Succeeded by | Ananth Kumar |
| MP of Rajya Sabha for Karnataka | |
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In office 1 July 2010 – 30 June 2016 |
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| MP of Rajya Sabha for Rajasthan | |
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Assumed office 5 July 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Anand Sharma |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
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In office 1978–1983 |
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| Constituency | Udayagiri |
| Personal details | |
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1 July 1949 Chavatapalem, Nellore, Madras Province (present-day Andhra Pradesh) |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Spouse(s) | M. Usha (m. 1971) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Andhra University |
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Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu (born 1 July 1949) is an Indian politician serving as the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi ministry. A prominent leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he has also served as its national president from 2002 to 2004. Earlier, he was the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
Naidu was born on 1 July 1949 at Chavatapalem, in the Nellore district of the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. He completed schooling from V. R. High School, Nellore, and pursued his bachelor's degree in politics and diplomatic studies from V. R. College. Later, he acquired a bachelor's degree in law with specialisation in international law from Andhra University College of Law, Visakhapatnam. 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 to the Andhra University. He came into 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 the anti-corruption Jayaprakash Narayan Chhatra Sangharsh Samiti of Andhra Pradesh. He took to streets in protest against the emergency and was imprisoned. From 1977–80, he was president of its youth wing.
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