Badiga Ramakrishna (born 2 September 1942) was a member of the 14th
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past ...
of
India
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. He represented the
Machilipatnam
Machilipatnam (), also known as Masulipatnam and Bandar, is a city in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipal corporation and the administrative headquarters of Krishna district. It is also the Tehsil, mandal he ...
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 ...
and is a member of the
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...
. He was defeated by the TDP's BC Candidate
Konakalla Narayana Rao in 2009 Lok sabha elections by a meager margin of 12000 votes in a multi sided contest, where in PRP, Loksatta, BJP fielded candidates from the Kapu community and polled more than 2 lakh votes.
External links
Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
1942 births
Living people
Indian National Congress politicians from Andhra Pradesh
India MPs 2004–2009
Telugu politicians
People from Krishna district
Lok Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh
Politicians from Vijayawada
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