Jogu Ramanna (born 4 July 1963) is an Indian politician who was the Minister of Forest and Environment & Backward Classes Welfare of

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from 2 June 2014 to 6 September 2018. He is a Member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly from Adilabad constituency since 2 June 2014. He was earlier a member of

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. He is an

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. from Adilabad assembly constituency from past four times 2018, 2014, 2012 by elections and 2009 also. He contested from Adilabad seat on BRS ticket in the 2023 Telangana Assembly Elections and lost the seat to BJP's Payal Shanker by 6,692 votes.

Early life

Ramanna was born in Deepaiguda village of Adilabad district.

Career

Ramanna started his political career as

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for Deepaiguda village. He served as MPTC for Jainath and ZPTC. He is a four-time M.L.A. from Adilabad assembly constituency. He raised a banner of revolt on Telangana statehood against party president

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by aligning himself with

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. He joined Telangana Rashtra Samithi on 10 October 2011 and in 2014 Telangana Assembly Election he was re-elected from

Adilabad Assembly constituency Adilabad Assembly constituency is a constituency of Telangana Legislative Assembly, India. It is one of the two constituencies in Adilabad district, Telangana. It comes under Adilabad Lok Sabha constituency along with 6 other Assembly constitu ...

. He was inducted into Cabinet on June 2, 2014, and became Forest Environment & BC Welfare Minister of Telangana.

Personal life

He was married to Rama and has 2 sons.

References

Living people Former members of Telugu Desam Party Bharat Rashtra Samithi politicians Andhra Pradesh MLAs 2009–2014 Telangana MLAs 2014–2018 1963 births Telangana MLAs 2018–2023 {{Telangana-TRS-politician-stub