# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rajendra-arlekar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:03:05.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rajendra-arlekar"
name: "Rajendra Arlekar"
slug: "rajendra-arlekar"
description: "Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar is an Indian politician who has served as the Governor of Kerala since January 2025. He took additional charge as the Governor of Tamil Nadu on 12 March 2026. Previously, he had served as the Governor of Bihar and Himachal Pradesh. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he was elected twice to the Goa Legislative Assembly. He served as a cabinet minister in the Government of Goa from 2015 to 2017 and was the speaker of the Goa assembly from 2012 to 2015."
tagline: "Indian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rajendra_Arlekar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1954-04-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.105292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "arlekar.rajendra"
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    handle:    "rajendraarlekar"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://rajendraarlekar.in/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump