Ashok Gajapathi Raju

**Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju** (born 26 June 1951) is an Indian politician who has been the 20th governor of Goa since 2025. He was the Union Minister for Civil Aviation from 2014 to 2018.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju
- **image**: The Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati in New Delhi on October 30, 2014.jpg
- **caption**: Raju in 2014
- **birth place**: Madras, Madras State, India (present-day Chennai, Tamil Nadu)
- **residence**: Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh (formerly) Raj Bhavan, Amravati (currently)
- **office**: 20th List of governors of Goa, Governor of Goa
- **1blankname**: List of chief ministers of Goa, Chief Minister
- **1namedata**: Pramod Sawant
- **president**: Droupadi Murmu
- **term start**: 26 July 2025
- **predecessor**: P. S. Sreedharan Pillai
- **office1**: 29th Ministry of Civil Aviation (India), Union Minister of Civil Aviation
- **term start1**: 26 May 2014
- **term end1**: 9 March 2018
- **primeminister1**: Narendra Modi
- **predecessor1**: Ajit Singh (politician, born 1939), Ajit Singh
- **successor1**: Suresh Prabhu
- **office2**: Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
- **constituency2**: Vizianagaram Lok Sabha constituency, Vizianagaram
- **term start2**: 16 May 2014
- **term end2**: 23 May 2019
- **predecessor2**: Botcha Jhansi Lakshmi
- **successor2**: Bellana Chandra Sekhar
- **office3**: First N. Chandrababu Naidu ministry, Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation
Government of Andhra Pradesh
- **term start3**: 11 October 1999
- **term end3**: 14 May 2004
- **governor3**: * Krishan Kant
* C. Rangarajan
* Surjit Singh Barnala
- **1blankname3**: Chief Minister
- **1namedata3**: N. Chandrababu Naidu
- **successor3**: Konathala Ramakrishna
- **office4**: First N. Chandrababu Naidu ministry, Minister of Finance and Legislative Affairs
Government of Andhra Pradesh
- **term start4**: 1 September 1995
- **term end4**: 10 October 1999
- **governor4**: * Krishan Kant
* C. Rangarajan
- **1blankname4**: Chief Minister
- **1namedata4**: N. Chandrababu Naidu
- **office5**: Fourth N. T. Rama Rao ministry, Minister of Commercial Taxes and Legislative Affairs
Government of Andhra Pradesh
- **term start5**: 12 December 1994
- **term end5**: 31 August 1995
- **governor5**: Krishan Kant
- **1blankname5**: Chief Minister
- **1namedata5**: N. T. Rama Rao
- **office6**: Second N. T. Rama Rao ministry, Minister of Excise
Government of Andhra Pradesh
- **term start6**: 9 March 1985
- **term end6**: 2 December 1989
- **1blankname6**: Chief Minister
- **1namedata6**: N. T. Rama Rao
- **office7**: First N. T. Rama Rao ministry, Minister of Commercial Taxes
Government of Andhra Pradesh
- **term start7**: 1983
- **term end7**: 1985
- **1blankname7**: Chief Minister
- **1namedata7**: N. T. Rama Rao
- **office8**: Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, Member of Legislative Assembly, Andhra Pradesh
- **constituency8**: Vizianagaram Assembly constituency, Vizianagaram
- **term start8**: 19 May 2009
- **term end8**: 28 March 2014
- **predecessor8**: Kolagatla Veerabhadra Swamy
- **successor8**: Meesala Geetha
- **term start9**: 5 March 1978
- **term end9**: 14 November 2003
- **predecessor9**: Appannadora Appasani
- **successor9**: Kolagatla Veerabhadra Swamy
- **constituency9**: Vizianagaram Assembly constituency, Vizianagaram
- **party**: Telugu Desam Party
- **alma mater**: Hyderabad Public School
- **children**: 2 including Pusapati Aditi Vijayalakshmi