Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu is an Indian politician and a

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to the

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from Srikakulam Lok Sabha constituency,

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. He won the Indian general election, 2014 and 2019 as a

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(TDP) candidate. He is also the National General Secretary of the TDP and the Leader of the Party in the

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Early life

Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu was born in Nimmada, Srikakulam on 18 December 1987. He is the son of Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu; a Telugu Desam Party leader and Kinjarapu Vijayakumari. His father was a

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(MLA) from Tekkali constituency and then became a

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(MP) from Srikakulam and later served as a

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for Rural Development in the United Front government between 1996 and 1998. He completed his primary schooling in Srikakulam and later on joined Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram,

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, to complete his school education after his father became an MP and moved to Delhi. He then earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from

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and an MBA from Long Island University. He worked for a year in Singapore before returning to India. His uncle,

Kinjarapu Atchannaidu Kinjarapu Atchannaidu is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He is serving as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing the Tekkali constituency from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) since 2014. He is the chief of TDP for th ...

, is also a politician.

Personal life

Kinjarupu married Sravya Bandaru in June 2017, the youngest daughter of the former minister and Telugu Desam Party Vice-President, Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy.

Political career

Kinjarupu entered politics in 2012 after the death of his father. He now represents Srikakulam Parliamentary constituency. He was made the MP constituency in charge in 2013. In 2014, he contested the elections for Srikakulam Constituency and won with a margin of 127,576 votes. Kinjarupu is the second youngest Member of Parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha. He introduced a private members bill to draw the attention of the centre towards Andhra Pradesh Railway Zone with Vishakhapatnam as its headquarters.

Performance in Parliament

''Performance in the Lok Sabha, 2019-20

Parliamentary Committees

He is a member of the standing committee on Railways and Home Affairs, Consultative Committee on Ministry of Tourism and Culture and in the Committee on Welfare of other Backward Classes and Official Language Department in the 16th Loksabha.

At the United Nations

Kinjarapu has represented India at the 72nd session of the

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in the 22nd meeting of the first committee on Disarmament. He emphasized on India's commitment to protecting the ideals of the UN charter and international peace through genuine pursuit for multilateralism. On behalf of

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, he attached importance to productive measures in Nuclear Disarmament and Non- Proliferation in all aspects at the United Nations.

Politics For Impact

Kinjarapu believes youth has a major role to play in politics, and politics isn't just about elections but, it's about solving the problems of people. With the same idea, he started an internship program, “Politics for Impact” to increase the opportunity for the youth to participate in politics and give them exposure to governance. 210 Students from over 16 states and 130 colleges had applied for the internship out of which 18 students were selected to work on issues in his constituency for a period of 2 months.

Election Results

2014 elections

2019 elections

Policy positions

In October 2019, he wrote an article in ''

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'' strongly criticizing the Andhra Pradesh government under

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for its sand mining policy. After coming to power in May 2019, sand mining was banned for more than 3 months until a new policy was put in place in September 2019. He wrote on how this policy "ended up putting more than 20 lakh laborers out of their daily jobs and caused deep pain to their families" and how it "brought the construction industry to a standstill for 3 months."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kinjarapu, Ram Mohan Naidu 1987 births Living people India MPs 2014–2019 Telugu Desam Party politicians People from Srikakulam district Purdue University College of Engineering alumni Long Island University alumni Telugu politicians Lok Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh