Pon Radhakrishnan

Pon Radhakrishnan
Pon Radhakrishnan
Minister of State for Finance
	In office; 3 September 2017 – 24 May 2019
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Minister	Arun Jaitley
Preceded by	Arjun Ram Meghwal
Succeeded by	Anurag Thakur
Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways
	In office; 9 November 2014 – 3 September 2017
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Minister	Nitin Gadkari
Preceded by	Krishan Pal Gurjar
Succeeded by	V. K. Singh
	In office; 8 September 2003 – 22 May 2004
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Minister	B. C. Khanduri
Preceded by	Shripad Naik
Succeeded by	K. H. Muniyappa
Minister of State for Shipping
	In office; 9 November 2014 – 24 May 2019
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Minister	Nitin Gadkari
Preceded by	Krishan Pal Gurjar
Succeeded by	Mansukh L. Mandaviya (as MoS Independent charge)
Member of the Indian Parliament; for Kanyakumari
	In office; 5 June 2014 – 18 June 2019
Preceded by	J. Helen Davidson
Succeeded by	H. Vasanthakumar
Member of the Indian Parliament; for Nagercoil
	In office; 1999–2004
Preceded by	N. Dennis
Succeeded by	A. V. Bellarmin
Personal details
Born	1 March 1952; Nagercoil, Travancore-Cochin, India; (now in Tamil Nadu, India)
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Parent(s)	Ponniah Ayyappan and Thanga Kani
Residence(s)	Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India
Alma mater	Scott Christian College, Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College, Chennai
Profession	Lawyer, Politician

Pon Radhakrishnan (born 1 March 1952) is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu, representing the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Shipping between May 2014 and May 2019. Earlier, he served in the Union Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways in the NDA government. He has served as the minister of state for Youth affairs and Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation in Third Vajpayee Ministry. He is elected to Lok Sabha from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu in 2014. He lost in the recent 2019 and 2021 (by-election) parliamentary elections.

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