Maddisetty Venugopal Rao (born 1977) is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He is an MLA of YSR Congress Party from

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. He won the

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election The 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on 11 April 2019 for constituting the fifteenth Legislative Assembly in the state. They were held alongside the 2019 Indian general election ...

Early life and education

Venugopal is born in Laxinarsimhapuram village of

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. His father's name is Srinivasulu. He did his MBA from Newport University, Bangalore in 1994. He is an entrepreneur who started the PACE group of companies.

Career

He started his political career with Praja Rajyam Party. Later, he shifted to YSRCP and won the

defeating

Kadiri Baburao Kadiri Babu Rao is an Indian politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. He was the former Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Kanigiri Assembly constituency representing Telugu Desam Party (TDP). He began his political career ...

of Telugu Desam Party by a margin of 39,057 votes. He worked for the region which has seen development in his tenure. However, Venugopal was dropped for the 2024 Assembly Election.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Venugopal Rao, Maddisetty Andhra Pradesh MLAs 2019–2024 1977 births Living people YSR Congress Party politicians People from Prakasam district Telugu people