Thigulla Padma Rao Goud (born 7 April 1954) is an Indian politician who is the current and 2nd Deputy Speaker of the Telangana Legislative Assembly from 24 February 2019 and Member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly from Secunderabad Constituency from 2 June 2014. He was the minister of Excise, Sports, Prohibition from 2014 to 2018 in Telangana.

Early life

Padma Rao was born on 7 April 1954 in

Secunderabad Secunderabad, also spelled as Sikandarabad (, ), is a twin cities, twin city of Hyderabad and one of the six zones of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Telangana. It ...

. He studied till Intermediate in Govt. Junior College, SP Road, Secunderabad.

Political career

He entered politics after education and served as a Municipal Councillor in 1984 & 2001(Hyderabad Municipal Corporation). Later in 2001 he joined

Telangana 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 ...

. He won from Secunderabad Assembly constituency in 2004 Assembly Election. In 2009 Assembly election he lost from Sanathnagar Assembly constituency to Congress candidate

Marri Shashidhar Reddy Marri Shashidhar Reddy (born 24 August 1949) is an Indian politician. He has been active both at the state level and national level politics in India. He was elected as an MLA four times from Sanathnagar (Assembly constituency). The first tim ...

. In 2014 Telangana Assembly Election he was re-elected from Secunderabad Assembly constituency. He was inducted into Cabinet on June 2, 2014, and made Excise and Prohibition, Sports and Youth Services Minister of Telangana. In December 2018, he became the Deputy Speaker of the

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Personal life

He is married to Swarupa Rani and has 4 sons and 2 daughters, namely Kishore Goud, Kiran Goud, Rameshwar Goud, Trinethra Goud, Aishwarya Goud and Mounika Goud.

References

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