Venkaiah Naidu

M. Venkaiah Naidu
M. Venkaiah Naidu
	Official portrait, 2017
Vice President of India
	In office; 11 August 2017 – 11 August 2022
President	Ram Nath Kovind; Droupadi Murmu; ;
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Succeeded by	Jagdeep Dhankhar
Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
	In office; 6 July 2017 – 17 July 2017
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Girija Vyas
Succeeded by	Narendra Singh Tomar
Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting
	In office; 5 July 2016 – 17 July 2017
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Arun Jaitley
Succeeded by	Smriti Irani
Union Minister of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
	In office; 26 May 2014 – 6 July 2017
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Kamal Nath
Succeeded by	Narendra Singh Tomar
Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
	In office; 26 May 2014 – 5 July 2016
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Kamal Nath
Succeeded by	Ananth Kumar
7th National President of Bharatiya Janata Party
	In office; 1 July 2002 – 5 October 2004
Preceded by	Jana Krishnamurthi
Succeeded by	L. K. Advani
Union Minister for Rural Development
	In office; 30 September 2000 – 30 June 2002
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by	Sunder Lal Patwa
Succeeded by	Kashiram Rana
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
	In office; 5 July 2016 – 10 August 2017
Preceded by	Anand Sharma
Succeeded by	Alphons Kannanthanam
Constituency	Rajasthan
	In office; 27 March 1998 – 5 July 2016
Preceded by	H. D. Deve Gowda
Succeeded by	Nirmala Sitharaman
Constituency	Karnataka
President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Andhra Pradesh
	In office; 1988–1993
National President	L. K. Advani; Murli Manohar Joshi;
Preceded by	Bangaru Laxman
Succeeded by	V. Rama Rao
Member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	In office; 1978–1985
Preceded by	Ponneboyina Chenchuramaiah
Succeeded by	Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy
Constituency	Udayagiri
Personal details
Born	Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu; 1 July 1949; Chavatapalem, Madras Province, Dominion of India; (present-day Andhra Pradesh, India)
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Usha Naidu (m. 1970)
Children	2
Alma mater	Andhra University (LLB)
Awards	Padma Vibhushan (2024)
Signature

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Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu (born 1 July 1949) is an Indian politician who served as the vice president of India from 2017 to 2022. He has also served as the minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi Cabinet.

Naidu has also served as the national president of Bharatiya Janata Party from 2002 to 2004. Earlier, he was the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. He took the oath as the vice president of India and the chairman of the Rajya Sabha (ex-officio as the Vice President) on 11 August 2017. In 2024, The Government of India honoured him with Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award.