Venkaiah Naidu

**Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu**, (born 1 July 1949) is an Indian politician. He was the 13th Vice President of India from 11 August 2017 to 11 August 2022. On 5 August 2017, Naidu was elected Vice President of India with 67.89% of the votes.

Naidu served as the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Narendra Modi cabinet. A well known leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he has also served as its national president from 2002 to 2004. Earlier, he was the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Venkaiah Naidu
- **office**: List of Vice-Presidents of India, 13th Vice-President of India
- **image**: Venkaiah Naidu official portrait.jpg
- **president**: Ram Nath Kovind
Draupadi Murmu
- **predecessor**: Mohammad Hamid Ansari
- **successor**: Jagdeep Dhankhar
- **office2**: Ministry of Urban Development, Minister of Urban Development, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
- **predecessor2**: Kamal Nath
Girija Vyas
- **primeminister2**: Narendra Modi
- **party**: Bharatiya Janata Party
- **office1**: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Minister of Information and Broadcasting
- **predecessor1**: Arun Jaitley
- **primeminister1**: Narendra Modi
- **successor1**: Smriti Irani
- **successor2**: Narendra Singh Tomar
- **birth name**: Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu
- **birth place**: Nellore district, Chavatapalem, India
- **otherparty**: National Democratic Alliance (India), National Democratic Alliance
- **children**: 2
- **alma mater**: Andhra University
- **term start**: 11 August 2017
- **term end**: 11 August 2022
- **term start1**: 5 July 2016
- **term end1**: 17 July 2017
- **term start2**: 26 May 2014
- **term end2**: 17 July 2017
- **office3**: Minister of Parliamentary Affairs (India), Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
- **primeminister3**: Narendra Modi
- **term start3**: 26 May 2014
- **term end3**: 5 July 2016
- **predecessor3**: Kamal Nath
- **successor3**: Ananth Kumar
- **office4**: List of Presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party, President of the Bharatiya Janata Party
- **term start4**: 1 July 2002
- **term end4**: 5 October 2004
- **predecessor4**: Jana Krishnamurthi
- **successor4**: L. K. Advani
- **office5**: Ministry of Rural Development (India), Minister for Rural Development
- **primeminister5**: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- **term start5**: 30 September 2000
- **term end5**: 30 June 2002
- **predecessor5**: Sunder Lal Patwa
- **successor5**: Kashiram Rana
- **office6**: Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Member of the Rajya Sabha
for Rajasthan
- **term start6**: 5 July 2016
- **term end6**: 10 August 2017(resigned)
- **predecessor6**: Anand Sharma
- **office7**: Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Member of the Rajya Sabha
for Karnataka
- **term start7**: 1998
- **term end7**: 2016
- **predecessor7**: H. D. Deve Gowda
- **successor7**: Nirmala Sitharaman
- **office8**: Member of Legislative Assembly (India), Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
for Udayagiri (Assembly constituency), Udayagiri
- **term start8**: 1978
- **term end8**: 1985
- **predecessor8**: Ponneboyina Chenchuramaiah
- **successor8**: Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy
- **native name lang**: hi