Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi (born 27 November 1962) is an Indian politician who is the current union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs,

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and Mines of India, since 30 May 2019 and Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, since 2004, representing the

Dharwad Lok Sabha constituency Dharwad Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian parliament) constituencies in Karnataka, a state in southern India. This constituency was created as a part of the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies ...

. He was also the State President of

Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka The Bharatiya Janata Party, or simply, BJP Karnataka (BJP; ; ), is the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party of the Karnataka. Its head office is situated at the BJP Bhavan, 11th Cross, Temple Street, Malleshwaram, Bengaluru. The current pre ...

(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 RSS when they organised a movement to hoist the Tri-colour flag at Idagah 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 Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (abbreviated as HDMC) is the Municipal Corporation responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the twin cities of Hubli and Dharwad, located in North Western part of Karnataka state in Indi ...

. He has been elected to Lok Sabha in the general elections of 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019. On 30 May 2019, Pralhad Joshi was sworn in as a cabinet minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term government.

Early politics

An industrialist by vocation in his early days, Pralhad Joshi ingratiated himself into the political fray by organizing a movement to hoist the Tri-colour flag at Idagah Maidan (also known as Kittur Rani chennamma Maidan) Hubli Karnataka from 1992 to 1994. He also led the "Save Kashmir Movement" during those years, which established him as a known figure in those regions of the state. He was then elected the president of BJP in Dharwad district. He first contested in the 14th Lok Sabha elections in 2004 where he won the Dharwad constituency by defeating INC's B.S Patil. He's won three consecutive elections from that constituency and is the incumbent MP of Dharwad. In the 2009 General elections, he won by second highest margin amidst 28 constituencies in Karnataka, while most of the ministers and MPs secured a loss in the same year. In 2019, he retained the Dharwad seat for a second term by a margin of over one lakh votes and was subsequently appointed Minister of parliamentary affairs; Minister of coal; and Minister of Mines in Modi's cabinet.

Union Minister

He took oath as the Cabinet minister on 30 May 2019 and became the Minister of

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and Mines.

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External links

Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website
Living people 1962 births Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka India MPs 2004–2009 India MPs 2009–2014 People from Hubli Lok Sabha members from Karnataka India MPs 2014–2019 People from Bijapur, Karnataka India MPs 2019–present Narendra Modi ministry Madhva Brahmins {{Karnataka-BJP-politician-stub