VP Venkaiah in brief

Venkaiah is the Vice President of NDA
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M Venkaiah Naidu, 68, was elected as India’s Vice President. Like the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance or NDA’s Presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind, Naidu comes from a humble background.

Venkaiah – a two-time Union minister and four-time Rajya Sabha member – enjoyed cordial relations with colleagues across party lines. He is known to be jovial, has a talent for acronyms and is a good orator.

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He will be the third vice-president from Andhra Pradesh. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha thrice from Karnataka and once from Rajasthan.

The veteran leader served as the BJP national president from July 2002 to October 2004. He quit the post after the party’s defeat in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections.

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Naidu served as the Rural Development Minister in the NDA government headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
In PM Narendra Modi’s government, he held the portfolios of Parliamentary Affairs, Information and Broadcasting and Urban Development. Naidu started his political career in 1973 as a student leader and later joined the Jan Sangh.

He was elected twice to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

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