Pon Radhakrishnan (born 1 March 1952) is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu, representing the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is currently serving as Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Shipping.
Earlier, he served in the Union Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways in the NDA government. He has 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 is elected to Lok Sabha from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu.
About Kanniyakumari constituency :
The Parliamentary Constituency of Kanniyakumari is one of the 39 Lok Sabha Constituencies of Tamil Nadu. 14,93,509 is the total electorate count in the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 12), Out of these 7,53,267 number of electorates are males and the remaining 7,40,083 are belong to the female category and 159 are belong to Third Gender as the Election commission of India 2019 reports suggest.