Venkaiah Naidu - Vice-President of India & BJP Leader

Venkaiah Naidu Age

Venkaiah Naidu was born on 1 July 1949 at Unguturu, in the West Godavari District of the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. He is 69 years old.

Venkaiah Naidu Family

He was born to agriculturist parents at Chavatapalem, a remote village in the Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh. On 14th July,1971 Shri. Venkaiah Naidu married Smt. Usha and they are blessed with a daughter and a son.

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Venkaiah Naidu Education

He completed his schooling from Zilla Parshad High School, Bucchireddy Palem (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 specialization 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. Soon Student elected him as the president of the students’ union of colleges affiliated to the Andhra University.

Venkaiah Naidu Biography

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 the anti-corruption Jayaprakash Narayan Chhatra Sangharsh Samiti of Andhra Pradesh. He took to the streets in protest against the emergency and was imprisoned.

From 1977–80, he was president of its youth wing. Both as a student leader and political figure, Naidu gained prominence as a brilliant orator, who vigorously championed the cause of the farmers and the development of backward areas.

His oratory skills and political activism propelled his political career. Soon people elected him 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.

Venkaiah Naidu Party

He rose to become one of the most popular leaders of the BJP in Andhra Pradesh.

After serving in various organisational posts of the BJP at the state and national level, people elected him as a member of the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka in 1998.

Soon he was re-elected twice, in 2004 and 2010, from Karnataka. Later 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.

Later he succeeded Jana Krishnamurthi as the National President of the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2003. On 28 January 2004, he was elected unopposed for a full three-year term.

Later the defeat of the BJP-led NDA in the 2004 general elections, he resigned from his post on 18 October 2004 and L. K. Advani succeeded him.

Venkaiah Naidu Ministry

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.

Soon he aggressively pushed for reforms in rural development and for the many schemes introduced during this period such as the ‘Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.

Following the victory of the BJP in the 2014 general elections, he became Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs on 26 May 2014.

Naidu founded the Swarna Bharat Trust, a social service organization founded in Nellore.

Later the trust runs a school for poor, orphaned and special-needs children and imparts self-employment training programs, especially for women and youth.

Soon BJP nominated and elected him on 29 May 2016 for the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan.

On 5 July 2016, he concurrently served as Minister of Information and Broadcasting.