Danam Nagender (born 9 August 1958) is an Indian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly from Khairatabad Assembly Constituency, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. He joined (TRS) Telangana Rashtra Samithi in 2018. He was the Senior Leader of Congress Party in Hyderabad. He was also Minister for Labour, Employment, Training & Factories, Industrial Training Institutes & Health in United Andhra Pradesh. He had represented the

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party. Nagender won his seat in the

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. He lost it in the 2014 assembly elections. He resigned from Congress party on 23 June 2018, joined

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and won from Khairatabad in general election Dec. 2018.

Career

D. Nagender was elected from

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assembly constituency in 1994, 1999 and 2004 as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. In the 2004 Andhra Pradesh state Assembly elections, he left the Indian National Congress (INC) for the

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(TDP). After winning from Asifnagar on the TDP ticket, he resigned his seat and left the TDP in an effort to get a place in the cabinet of

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through re-election as an INC MLA. He failed in the by-election. In an interview to the Press

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he said that he is a great follower of P. Janardhan Reddy, he and his wife worship him everyday and he admires him a lot. After

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, Nagender contested and won from Khairathabad Assembly Constituency in 2009 elections."Updated official microsite of Danam Nagender - Khairtabad"
. danamnagender 2014-04-17. Nagender was inducted into the cabinet for the first time by YSR in 2009 and held the portfolio of Health and Medical Services and continued in the same portfolio in the cabinet of

Konijeti Rosaiah Konijeti Rosaiah (4 July 1933 – 4 December 2021) was an Indian politician who served as the List of chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh, 15th chief minister of United Andhra Pradesh from 2009 to 2010. He also served as the Governor of Karnataka ...

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