C. P. Radhakrishnan

Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan (born 20 October 1957) is an Indian politician and businessman who has been the 15th and current Vice President of India since 2025. He was the governor of Maharashtra from 31 July 2024 until 11 September 2025. He was the governor of Jharkhand from February 2023 to July 2024.^[7][8]

C. P. Radhakrishnan
Official portrait, 2025
15th Vice President of India
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 September 2025
President	Droupadi Murmu
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Jagdeep Dhankhar
Governor of Maharashtra
In office 31 July 2024[1] – 11 September 2025
Chief Minister	Eknath Shinde Devendra Fadnavis
Preceded by	Ramesh Bais
Succeeded by	Acharya Devvrat (additional charge)
Governor of Jharkhand
In office 18 February 2023[2] – 30 July 2024[3]
Chief Minister	Hemant Soren Champai Soren
Preceded by	Ramesh Bais
Succeeded by	Santosh Gangwar
Governor of Telangana
In office 20 March 2024[4] – 6 August 2024[5]
Chief Minister	Revanth Reddy
Preceded by	Tamilisai Soundararajan
Succeeded by	Jishnu Dev Varma
Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry
In office 22 March 2024[6] – 7 August 2024
Chief Minister	N. Rangaswamy
Preceded by	Tamilisai Soundararajan
Succeeded by	Kuniyil Kailashnathan
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 28 February 1998 – 22 May 2004
Preceded by	M. Ramanathan
Succeeded by	K. Subbarayan
Constituency	Coimbatore
State President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Tamil Nadu
In office 12 May 2003 – 22 September 2006
Preceded by	S. P. Kirubanidhi
Succeeded by	La. Ganesan
Personal details
Born	Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan (1957-05-04) 4 May 1957 (age 68) Tiruppur, Madras State (present–day Tamil Nadu), India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)	R. Sumathi ​ (m. 1985)​
Children	2
Alma mater	V. O. Chidambaram College (BBA)
Occupation	Businessman, agriculturalist, politician

He was a member of the Lok Sabha 1998 until 2004. He was also the former state president of the BJP for Tamil Nadu.

In August 2025, Radhakrishnan was announced as the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate in the 2025 vice presidential election.^[9] He was elected vice president the following month with 60% of the vote.^[10]