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Place of Birth: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
About Bandaru Dattatreya
- Bandaru Dattatreya (born 26 February 1947) is an Indian politician and the Governor of the State of Himachal Pradesh.He was the Member of Lok Sabha for Secunderabad since 2014.
- He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Born in Hyderabad, Dattatreya graduated with a science degree.
- He joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1965 and was imprisoned during The Emergency.
- In 1991, he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Secunderabad constituency for the first time.
- In 1997, he was appointed party president for the state unit.
- In 1998, he was re-elected and served as Union Minister of State for Urban Development in the second Vajpayee ministry.
- He was elected for a third consecutive time in 1999 and again served as a Minister of State in third Vajpayee ministry.
- He lost the Lok Sabha election in 2004 and 2009.
- The party appointed him as national vice-president in 2013.
- 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. On March 21, 2019, the BJP replaced Dattatreya with former MLA G.
- Kishan Reddy as its candidate from Secunderabad for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
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