Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
In office 26 June 1991 – 26 May 1996
Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports
In office 26 May 1985 – 26 May 1989
Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi
Minister of State, Parliamentary Affairs
In office 25 July 1984 – 25 July 1985
Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
In office 25 July 1993 – 25 July 1996
Prime Minister
P. V. Narasimha Rao
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office 25 July 1974–25 July 1998
Constituency
Karnataka
Personal details
Born
Margaret Nazareth
(1942-04-14) 14 April 1942 (age 82) Mangalore, Madras Presidency, British India (present-day Mangaluru, Karnataka, India)
Political party
Indian National Congress
Spouse
Niranjan Alva
(m. 1964; died 2018)
[1]
Relations
Violet Alva (Mother-in-Law)
Joachim Alva (Father-in-law)
Children
3 son(s) and 1 daughter
Residence
New Delhi
Alma mater
Mount Carmel College (B.A.), University Law College, Bangalore (LL.B.)
Profession
Lawyer
Margaret Nazareth Alva (born 14 April 1942) is an Indian politician. She served as the 17th Governor of Goa, 23rd Governor of Gujarat, 19th Governor of Rajasthan and 4th Governor of Uttarakhand at various times between 2009 and 2014. She has formerly served as the Cabinet Minister. She took over in Rajasthan from the Punjab governor, Shivraj Patil, who had been holding an additional charge of that state. Before being appointed governor, she was a senior figure in the Indian National Congress and was Joint Secretary of the All India Congress Committee. Her mother-in-law, Violet Alva, was Second Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha in 1960s.
On 17 July 2022, the United Progressive Alliance along with some other non-UPA opposition parties nominated her for the post of Vice President of India in the 2022 election.[2] But she was defeated by her opponent Jagdeep Dhankhar by a margin of 346 votes on 6 August 2022.
^"Niranjan Thomas Alva passes away". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 7 April 2018.
^"Ex-union minister Margaret Alva is Opposition's vice presidential candidate". The Indian Express. 17 July 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
Margaret Nazareth Alva (born 14 April 1942) is an Indian politician. She served as the 17th Governor of Goa, 23rd Governor of Gujarat, 19th Governor of...
Joachim Ignatius Sebastian Alva or Joachim Piedade Alva (21 January 1907 – 28 June 1979) was an Indian lawyer, journalist and politician from Mangalore...
nominated as a vice-presidential candidate by the BJP. On 17 July 2022, MargaretAlva was announced as the vice-presidential candidate by the United Progressive...
by the BJP. He contested against the United Opposition's candidate, MargaretAlva, a former Union Minister and Governor from the Indian National Congress...
became vice president after defeating Indian National Congress candidate MargaretAlva in the 2022 Indian vice presidential election. As in the case of the...
re-elected in 1998. He narrowly lost in the next election in 1999 to MargaretAlva of Congress. Since then, he has been re-elected four consecutive times...
Niret Alva was born in Bangalore – the first child of lawyers Niranjan and MargaretAlva. Alva has two brothers, Nikhil Alva and Nivedith Alva, and a...
individuals have served as the governor of the state including two women - MargaretAlva and Baby Rani Maurya. No governor has till date completed full term...
Violet Hari Alva (24 April 1908 – 20 November 1969) was an Indian lawyer, journalist and politician, and Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, and member...
Retrieved 22 October 2013. "MargaretAlva, Governor of Uttarakhand". Uttarakhand Government. Retrieved 8 July 2015. "MargaretAlva, Governor of Rajasthan"...
Governor of Uttarakhand In office 17 May 2012 – 6 January 2015 Preceded by MargaretAlva Succeeded by Krishan Kant Paul Governor of Uttar Pradesh (additional...
15 July 2019 Chief Minister Anandiben Patel Vijay Rupani Preceded by MargaretAlva Succeeded by Acharya Dev Vrat Governor of Madhya Pradesh Additional...
December 2018 5 years, 4 days 2013 (14th) Bharatiya Janata Party Raje II MargaretAlva (12) Ashok Gehlot (born 1951) MLA for Sardarpura 17 December 2018 15...
the fourteenth vice president in 2022 defeating his rival candidate MargaretAlva of the Indian National Congress. First vice president to be born after...
September 2011 13 March 2012 184 days (total 2 years, 295 days) Khanduri II MargaretAlva 6 Vijay Bahuguna (born 1947) MLA for Sitarganj 13 March 2012 31 January...
Congress 1989 1991 1996 Anantkumar Hegde Bharatiya Janata Party 1998 1999 MargaretAlva Indian National Congress 2004 Anantkumar Hegde Bharatiya Janata Party...
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric...
Shivraj Patil (1935–) 26 April 2010 12 May 2012 2 years, 16 days 30 MargaretAlva (1942–) 12 May 2012 7 August 2014 2 years, 87 days 31 Ram Naik (1934–)...
Vani', a community radio service on 11 March 2010. Uttarakhand governor MargaretAlva inaugurated the radio station, the first in the state. The 'Kumaon Vani'...
In office 9 March 2012 – 8 November 2014 Governor Bharat Vir Wanchoo MargaretAlva Mridula Sinha Deputy Francis D'Souza Preceded by Digambar Kamat Succeeded...
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