Pon Radhakrishnan

Pon Radhakrishnan
Pon Radhakrishnan
Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways
In office
January 24, 1999 – May 2004
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Personal details
Born Nagercoil, Tamilnadu
Nationality Indian
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s) Many
Residence Chennai, India
Religion Hinduism

Pon Radhakrishnan(Tamil: பொன்.ராதாகிருஷ்ணன்)has been associated with Hindu Munnani since 1990's. He is a former union minister of state of India. He was minister of state for Youth affairs in Third Vajpayee Ministry.Later he served as Minister of State in the Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu.

In a close fight, Radhakrishnan lost the 2009 Lok sabha elections from Kanyakumari but he was later made the President of the Tamil Nadu unit of the BJP. In 2011 Tamil Nadu assembly election he contested from Nagercoil constituency however lost and secured third position. He usually tirggers violence among Hindu and Christian Community in Kanyakumari District.

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