Bandaru Dattatreya (born 12 June 1947) is an Indian politician serving as the current governor of the State of Haryana since 2021.

In 1998, he was re-elected and served as Union Minister of State for Urban Development in the second Vajpayee ministry.

He was elected for a third consecutive time in 1999 and again served as a Minister of State in third Vajpayee ministry.

[2] Dattatreya began his political career and joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1965.

He also served as state joint secretary of Loka Sangarsha Samiti (Jayaprakash Narayan-led Total Revolution Movement) and was imprisoned during the Emergency in the 1970s.

[2] He defeated his nearest rival T. Manemma Anjaiah of the Indian National Congress by a margin of 85,063 votes.

However, two years later, he defeated Rao by a margin of 185,910 votes and was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from the Secunderabad constituency.

[6] He served as Union Minister of State (MoS) for Urban Development in the second Vajpayee ministry from 1998 to 1999.

[1] On 21 March 2019, the BJP replaced Dattatreya with former MLA G. Kishan Reddy as its candidate from Secunderabad for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

[2] In January 2016, Dattatreya was charged with abetting the suicide of Rohith Vemula, a student at the University of Hyderabad.

[18] The previous August, he wrote a letter to Smriti Irani, the minister of Human Resource Development claiming the university had turned into a "den of casteist, extremist and anti-national politics".

[19] Dattatreya denied any wrongdoing and claimed that he had received the letter from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and just forwarded it to Irani with his official letterhead.