# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pon-radhakrishnan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:05:12.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pon-radhakrishnan"
name: "Pon Radhakrishnan"
slug: "pon-radhakrishnan"
description: "Pon Radhakrishnan is an Indian politician 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 as the Union Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways in the NDA government. He has also 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 was elected to Lok Sabha from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu in 2014. He lost in the recent 2019, 2021 (by-election) and 2024 parliamentary elections."
tagline: "Indian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ponji.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1952-03-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump