Vanama Venkateswara Rao is a politician from

Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian subcontinent, Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India b ...

state and a member of the Legislative Assembly constituency of

Kothagudem Kothagudem is a City in Telangana. It serves as the headquarters of the Bhadradri Kothagudem district of the Indian state of Telangana. It was a portion of large Zamindari estate known as Husanabad Shankaragiri or Palvancha Zamindari in the N ...

Political career

Venkateswara Rao was elected as a MLA from

for the first time in 1989. He later represented the constituency in 1999 and 2004, besides serving as a minister in the cabinet of former Chief Minister

Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (8 July 1949 – 2 September 2009), popularly known as YSR, was the 14th chief minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, serving from 2004 to 2009. Reddy was elected to the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12t ...

in 2008. In the Telangana general elections of 2018, he contested on an

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 ...

party ticket and won with a majority of 4120 votes over the nearest

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 ...

party candidate

Jalagam Venkat Rao Jalagam Venkat Rao (born April 18, 1967) is ex member of the legislative assembly representing Kothagudem (Assembly constituency). He won the 2004 elections from Sathupalli constituency and 2014 elections from Kothagudem constituency. Early ...

. He resigned from the Congress Party after the 2018 elections and joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi party.

References

1944 births Living people Bharat Rashtra Samithi politicians Andhra Pradesh MLAs 1989–1994 Andhra Pradesh MLAs 1999–2004 Andhra Pradesh MLAs 2004–2009 Telangana MLAs 2018–2023 {{Telangana-TRS-politician-stub