Teegala Krishna Reddy (born 10 June 1949) is an Indian politician, a former

Member of Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. ...

and a former Mayor of Hyderabad, from

Telangana state Telangana (; , ) is a state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh-largest state and the twelfth-most populated state in India with a geographical area of and 35, ...

. He is currently in the Bharat Rashtra Samithi.

Early life

Reddy was born in

Ranga Reddy district Ranga Reddy district ( R. R. district) is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. The district headquarters is located at Lakdikapool, Hyderabad. The district was named after the former deputy chief minister of the United Andhra Pradesh, ...

, Meerpet. He completed his BA in 1971 from

Osmania University Osmania University is a collegiate university, collegiate Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Mir Osman Ali Khan, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad in 1918 , He released a farma ...

. He is the Chairman of Teegala Krishna Reddy Engineering College.

Career

Reddy joined 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 ...

during its foundation. He contested the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) elections in 1986 from Gandhi Nagar division on behalf of the Telugu Desam Party and lost. Reddy contested the MCH elections in 2002 and served as the mayor of Hyderabad until 2007. He worked as the Chairman of Hyderabad Urban Development Authority. In the 2009 Andhra Pradesh elections, he contested as a Telugu Desam Party candidate from the Maheswaram constituency and was defeated by

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 E ...

candidate

Sabitha Indra Reddy Patlolla Sabitha Indra Reddy (born 5 May 1963) is an Indian politician who has been the Minister for Education of Telangana state since 2019. Reddy started her political career with the Indian National Congress and in 2009 became the first wom ...

by a margin of 7,833 votes. In the 2014 Telanagana elections, he contested as a Telugu Desam Party candidate again from Maheshwaram constituency and was elected MLA for the first time by beating his nearest rival Congress candidate Mal Reddy Rangareddy with a majority of 30,784 votes. 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 sing ...

on 29 October 2014. In the 2018 Telangana elections he contested as a Telangana Rashtra Samithi candidate from Maheshwaram constituency and was defeated by

candidate Sabitha Indra Reddy by a margin of 9,227 votes.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reddy, Teegala Krishna 1949 births Former members of Telugu Desam Party Mayors of Hyderabad, India Bharat Rashtra Samithi politicians Living people