Pralhad Joshi
Pralhad Joshi is an Indian politician who is the current Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in the Central Cabinet under Prime Minister Modi since May 2019, with additional portfolios of Mines and Coal. He has been a member of Lok Sabha since 2004 and was elected to 17th Lok Sabha in 2019 from the Dharwad Lok Sabha constituency. He was Karnataka State President of the Bharatiya Janata Party from 2014 to 2016. He served in the panel of chairpersons of Lok sabha
Pralhad Joshi first came to public notice with RSS when they organised a movement to hoist the Tri-colour flag at Idagah Maidan Hubli Karnataka during 1992–1994. Recently the Supreme court has upheld the Karnataka High Court order restoring the ownership of the said maidan to The Hubli-Dharwad Municipal corporation. He has been elected to Lok Sabha in the general elections of 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019.
On 30 May 2019, Pralhad Joshi was sworn in as a cabinet minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term government.Union Minister
He took oath as Cabinet minister on 30 May 2019 and became the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines.
