George Kurian (politician)
Indian politician and minister of State,Fisheries,Animal Husbandary and Dairying / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
{{Infobox officeholder | image = George Kurian (cropped).jpg |caption = Kurian in 2018 | office1 = Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying | minister1 = Lalan Singh | primeminister1 = Narendra Modi | term_start1 = 9 June 2024 (2024-06-09) | term_end1 = | predecessor1 = L. Murugan | successor1 = | status1 = Incumbent | office2 = Minister of State for Minority Affairs | minister2 = Kiren Rijiju | primeminister2 = Narendra Modi | term_start2 = 9 June 2024 (2024-06-09) | term_end2 = | predecessor2 = John Barla | successor2 = | status2 = Incumbent | party = Bharatiya Janata Party | birth_date = 1960 (1960) (age 64) | birth_place = | nationality = Indian
| alma_mater =
- Kuriakose Elias College, Mannanam
- Government College, Kottayam
- St. Thomas College, Palai
- Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala
| education =
| spouse = [[Lieutenant colonel|Lt. Col.][MNS] O. T. Annamma (Retd) | children = 2 }}
George Kurian is an Indian politician and lawyer from Kerala, who currently serves as a Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying and Minority Affairs in the third Modi ministry. He is a long-standing member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who joined the party ever since its formation in 1980. He was a lawyer in the Supreme Court of India.
Previously, he has served as the vice-chairman of National Commission for Minorities and as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to the then Minister of State for Railways, O. Rajagopal.[1][2]