Bandaru Dattatreya

Bandaru Dattatreya (born 12 June 1947) is an Indian politician serving as the current governor of the State of Haryana since 2021.

Dattatreya was born on 12 June 1947 to Bandaru Anjaiah and Eswaramma at the city of Hyderabad, in Hyderabad State.

He received B.Sc. degree from Osmania University.

He joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1965 and was imprisoned during The Emergency.

Dattatreya began his political career and joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1965.

He served as a pracharak (propagator) of the organisation from 1965 to 1968.

He also served as state joint secretary of Loka Sangarsha Samiti (Jayaprakash Narayan-led Total Revolution Movement) and was imprisoned during the Emergency in the 1970s.

In 1980, Dattatreya officially joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

He was appointed general secretary of the party's Andhra Pradesh unit.

He served in that position until 1989.

In 1991, he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Secunderabad constituency for the first time.

Dattatreya was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Secunderabad constituency In 1991.

He defeated his nearest rival T. Manemma Anjaiah of the Indian National Congress by a margin of 85,063 votes.

He was the only BJP candidate to win from Andhra Pradesh.

P.V. Rajeshwara Rao defeated Dattatreya in the general election held in 1996.

However, two years later, he defeated Rao by a margin of 185,910 votes and was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from the Secunderabad constituency.

Rediff.com wrote that the party won four constituencies in the state due to his efforts.

In 1997, he was appointed party president for the state unit.

In 1997, he became president of the party's Andhra Pradesh unit.

In 1998, he was re-elected and served as Union Minister of State for Urban Development in the second Vajpayee ministry.

He served as Union Minister of State (MoS) for Urban Development in the second Vajpayee ministry from 1998 to 1999.

He was elected for a third consecutive time in 1999 and again served as a Minister of State in third Vajpayee ministry.

In 1999, Dattatreya was elected to the Lok Sabha for the third time.

Between 1999 and 2001, he again served as Union MoS for Urban Development in the third Vajpayee ministry.

From 2001 to 2003, he served as Union MoS for Railways.

In 2003, he was again given the Urban Development portfolio.

He lost the Lok Sabha election in 2004 and 2009.

Dattatreya lost the 2004 Indian general election.

In the same year, he became the national secretary of the party, a post which he held until 2006.

In 2006, he was appointed president of the party's state unit.

Three years later, he became a national executive member of the party.

In the 2009 Indian general election, he lost his constituency for the second time.

The party appointed him as national vice-president in 2013.

He was appointed the national vice-president of the party in 2013.

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.

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.

In May 2014, Dattatreya was re-elected to the Lok Sabha for the fourth time from the Secunderabad constituency.