# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/h-r-bhardwaj
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:35:47.139Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/h-r-bhardwaj"
name: "H. R. Bhardwaj"
slug: "h-r-bhardwaj"
description: "Hansraj Bhardwaj was an Indian politician who was Governor of Karnataka from 2009 to 2014; he also served as Governor of Kerala from 2012 until 2013. He was a member of the Indian National Congress. He holds the record of having the second longest tenure in Law Ministry since independence, after Ashoke Kumar Sen. He was the minister of state for nine years and a cabinet minister for law and justice for five years. At the end of his five-year term in 2014, Governor of Tamil Nadu, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Konijeti Rosaiah replaced Bharadwaj as Governor of Karnataka."
tagline: "Serving as the Governor of Karnataka and the Governor of Kerala (1937-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_Minister_for_Law_%26_Justice_Shri_H.R.Bhardwaj_briefing_the_Press_in_New_Delhi_on_January_7%2C_2005.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1937-05-17"
deathDate: "2020-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48
  momentum:             5.177713736791548
  historical:           5.590213333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump