Pappala Chalapathirao (born 1 January 1946) was an Indian politician.

Life

Chalapathirao was born in a Dimili village in

Rambilli Rambilli is a village and a Mandal in Anakapalli district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. There is a famous Lord Shiva Temple "Sri Dharalingeswara Swamy Temple" in Rambilli mandal at Panchadaarla (meaning five sacred water flows) in D ...

mandal in

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district, and was a

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of the 14th

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. He represented the Anakapalli constituency of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

as a member of the

Telugu Desam Party The Telugu Desam Party (; TDP) is an Indian regional political party operating in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana at the state and central level. Since its founding by N. T. Rama Rao (often referred to as NTR) on 29 March 1982, the party has fo ...

. He was elected to the assembly four times from the

Yelamanchili Elamanchili is a town in Anakapalli district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipality and also the mandal headquarters of Elamanchili mandal. The town is spread over an area of , which is under the jurisdiction of Visakhapatnam ...

constituency and won the general

election for the fifth time from the Anakapalli constituency of

as a member of the

. He never changed to any other party in his political career and he has clean image in politics. 1946 births Living people Telugu Desam Party politicians India MPs 2004–2009 Lok Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh People from Visakhapatnam district {{AndhraPradesh-TDP-politician-stub