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Place of Birth: Bijapur, Karnataka, India
About Pralhad Joshi
- Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi (born 27 November 1962) is an Indian politician who is the current Minister of the Parliamentary Affairs in the Central Cabinet under Prime Minister Modi since May 2019, with additional portfolios of Mines and Coal.
- He has been a member of Lok Sabha since 2004 and was elected to 17th Lok Sabha in 2019 from the Dharwad Lok Sabha constituency.
- He was Karnataka State President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2016.
- He served in the panel of chairpersons of Lok sabha (2014-2018) Pralhad Joshi (sometimes spelled Prahlad Joshi) first came to public notice with Rastradwaja Horata Samiti Sanchalak when they organised a movement to hoist the Tri-colour flag at Idagah Maidan (also known as Rani Kittur Chennamma Maidan) Hubli Karnataka during 1992-1994.
- Recently the Supreme court has upheld the Karnataka High Court order restoring the ownership of the said maidan to The Hubli-Dharwad Municipal corporation.
- He has been elected to Lok Sabha in the general elections of 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019.
- Joshi has identified himself as a man-in-service-of-mankind.
- A member of the R.S.S., since his young age, Shri.
- Joshi got himself trained in various training camps of R.S.S.
- He has been concerned with solving the problems of the poor and earned the name “Man of the masses”.
- His area of interest is vast to include socio-cultural and educational.
- On 30 May 2019, Pralhad Joshi was sworn in as a cabinet minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term government.
- He is in charge of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Ministry of Coal, and Ministry of Mining
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