Katipally Venkata Ramana Reddy (born 1970) is an Indian politician and member of legislative assembly from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who represents Kamareddy constituency in the Telangana Legislative Assembly. In

2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election The 2023 Telangana legislative assembly election is scheduled to be held in or before December 2023 to elect all 119 members of the Telangana Legislative Assembly, state's Legislative Assembly. K. Chandrashekar Rao of Bharat Rashtra Samithi, i ...

he created History as he defeated both the incumbent Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and the then to-be-elected Chief Minister

Revanth Reddy Anumula Revanth Reddy (born 8 November 1969) is an Indian politician from Telangana. He is the Member of parliament (MP) in the 17th Lok Sabha, from the Indian National Congress representing the Malkajgiri constituency. He was a two-time Membe ...

. He defeated his nearest rival, KCR, by 6741 votes. Ramana Reddy was appointed as BJP Legislature Party deputy floor on 14 February 2024.

Personal life

Ramana Reddy is a businessperson. He dropped out of formal education after his Class 12. His father, Katipally Raji Reddy, was a Kamareddy panchayat samiti president.

Career

Reddy worked as a member of Zilla Parishad Territorial Council in the undivided Nizamabad district in 2004 and went on to become ZP chairman. Earlier, he worked in Indian National Congress and Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR), then chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh passed away, he joined TRS, now renamed as BRS. Before the

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he joined BJP and contested as MLA but finished a distant third. In the recent years, he is credited with taking up local issues. His donations and support in supplying building materials for the construction of temples in the constituency is said to be one of the reasons that helped him gain a voter base. He also spearheaded the agitation to oppose the 'Master Plan' for Kamareddy that was mooted by the then BRS government. In the

he ran as Bharatiya Janata Party candidate for the Kamareddy seat. He defeated both

Bharat Rashtra Samithi Bharat Rashtra Samithi ( ; BRS), formerly known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi ( TRS), is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in the state of Telangana. It was founded on 27 April 2001 as by K. Chandrashekar Rao, with a singl ...

's incumbent Chief Minister

K. Chandrashekhar Rao Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (born 17 February 1954), often referred to by his initials KCR, is an Indian politician serving as the first and current Chief Minister of Telangana since 2 June 2014. He is the founder and leader of the Bharat Ras ...

, and INC stalwart

who became next Chief Minister. BJP won in Kamareddy for the first-time . In an affidavit filed to the

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, he declared assets amounting to .

Telangana Legislative Assembly election, 2023

References

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