Bandaru Dattatreya

Bandaru Dattatreya
18th Governor of Haryana
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 July 2021
Chief Minister	Manohar Lal Khattar Nayab Singh Saini
Preceded by	Satyadev Narayan Arya
20th Governor of Himachal Pradesh
In office 11 September 2019 – 6 July 2021
Chief Minister	Jai Ram Thakur
Preceded by	Kalraj Mishra
Succeeded by	Rajendra Arlekar
Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Labour and Employment
In office 9 November 2014 – 1 September 2017
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Narendra Singh Tomar
Succeeded by	Santosh Gangwar
10th President of the Bharatiya Janata Party Andhra Pradesh
In office 2007 - 2010
National President	Rajnath Singh Nitin Gadkari
Preceded by	N. Indrasena Reddy
Succeeded by	G. Kishan Reddy
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 16 May 2014 – 23 May 2019
Preceded by	Anjan Kumar Yadav
Succeeded by	G. Kishan Reddy
Constituency	Secunderabad
In office 10 March 1998 – 16 May 2004
Preceded by	P.V. Rajeshwar Rao
Succeeded by	Anjan Kumar Yadav
Constituency	Secunderabad
In office 20 June 1991 – 10 May 1996
Preceded by	T. Manemma
Succeeded by	P. V. Rajeshwar Rao
Constituency	Secunderabad
Personal details
Born	(1947-06-12) 12 June 1947 (age 77) Hyderabad, Hyderabad State, British India (present-day Telangana, India)
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Vasantha (m. 1989)
Children	3
Residence(s)	Ramnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana
Alma mater	Osmania University (B.Sc)
Profession	Social worker[1]
Cabinet	Second Vajpayee ministry Third Vajpayee ministry Modi ministry

Bandaru Dattatreya (born 12 June 1947) is an Indian politician serving as the current governor of the State of Haryana since 2021. He was also the 20th governor of Himachal Pradesh and was the member of Lok Sabha for Secunderabad from 2014 to 2019. 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.