V. Dhananjay Kumar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indian politician
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Place of Birth: Venur, Karnataka, India
About V. Dhananjay Kumar
- Venur Dhananjay Kumar Alva (4 July 1951 – 4 March 2019) was a former Union and Cabinet minister of India and a former Member of Parliament from Mangalore.
- He was cabinet minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism in 1996, Union Minister of State for Finance from 1999–2000 and Union Minister of State for Textiles from 2000–2003.
- He was also one of the first few BJP MPs to be elected from south India, at a time when the Congress party's reach was at its peak. Kumar went on to represent the Mangalore constituency in the Lok Sabha for four successive terms.
- Earlier in 1983, he was elected as a BJP MLA from Mangalore assembly constituency comfortably defeating sitting MLA from Congress, P.
- F.
- Rodrigues, even before he became an MP.
- Being a staunch loyalist of former Chief Minister of Karnataka B.
- S.
- Yeddyurappa, he was elected as the president of the new Karnataka Janata Party.
- He was the Special representative of the Government of Karnataka to the Union Government in New Delhi.
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