21 Facts About Bandaru Dattatreya

Bandaru Dattatreya was born on 12 June 1947 and is an Indian politician serving as the current governor of the State of Haryana since 2021.

Bandaru Dattatreya was the 20th governor of Himachal Pradesh and was the member of Lok Sabha for Secunderabad from 2014 to 2019.

Bandaru Dattatreya joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1965 and was imprisoned during The Emergency.

Bandaru Dattatreya was elected for a third consecutive time in 1999 and again served as a Minister of State in third Vajpayee ministry.

Bandaru Dattatreya lost the Lok Sabha election in 2004 and 2009.

Bandaru Dattatreya served as a pracharak of the organisation from 1965 to 1968.

Bandaru Dattatreya served as state joint secretary of Loka Sangarsha Samiti and was imprisoned during the Emergency in the 1970s.

In 1980, Bandaru Dattatreya officially joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Bandaru Dattatreya was appointed general secretary of the party's Andhra Pradesh unit.

Bandaru Dattatreya was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Secunderabad constituency In 1991.

Bandaru Dattatreya defeated his nearest rival T Manemma Anjaiah of the Indian National Congress by a margin of 85,063 votes.

Bandaru Dattatreya was the only BJP candidate to win from Andhra Pradesh.

Bandaru Dattatreya served as Union Minister of State for Urban Development in the second Vajpayee ministry from 1998 to 1999.

In 1999, Bandaru Dattatreya was elected to the Lok Sabha for the third time.

Bandaru Dattatreya was appointed the national vice-president of the party in 2013.

In May 2014, Bandaru Dattatreya was re-elected to the Lok Sabha for the fourth time from the Secunderabad constituency.

Bandaru Dattatreya became the lone minister in the Modi ministry from the state of Telangana.

Bandaru Dattatreya was appointed the Governor of Himachal Pradesh in the year 2019.

On 18 July 2021, Bandaru Dattatreya was appointed the 18th Governor of Haryana.

In January 2016, Bandaru Dattatreya was charged with abetting the suicide of Rohith Vemula, a student at the University of Hyderabad.

Bandaru Dattatreya denied any wrongdoing and claimed that he had received the letter from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and just forwarded it to Irani with his official letterhead.