Thummala Nageswara Rao

Thummala Nageswara Rao

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  • Name:
  • Thummala Nageswara Rao
  • Born:
  • November 11, 1953

Thummala Nageswara Rao Biography

Thummala Nageswara Rao is a popular political leader from Khammam district, South India. He belongs to one of powerful communities, Kamma, which plays key roll play in Andhra Politics. He is the present Minster of Roads and Buildings, Telangana. He formerly served as a minister in the Government of Andhra Pradesh, and after the division of the state into two, he is associated with politics of Telangana as a member of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). He served as Minor Irrigation Minister in the cabinet led by N. T. Rama Rao, and has held different portfolios such as Prohibition and Excise, Major Irrigation, and Roads and Buildings in the cabinet led by Chandrababu Naidu at different points of time.

 

Thummala Nageswara Rao was born on 11 November 1953 in Khammam, Khammam District, Telangana. Gandugula Palli village of Dammapeta Mandal is his native village. He got into active politics in the early 1980s and got elected to state legislative assembly for the first time in 1985 from Sathupalli constituency. As a politician he was associated with Telugu Desam Party then, and he was elected in 1994 and 1999 elections as well from Sathupalli constituency representing Telugu Desam Party. He has held different portfolios in the government formed by N. T. Rama Rao and Chandrababu Naidu.

 

In the 2009 elections, he was elected from the Khammam constituency to Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly marking his fourth term as MLA. But he couldn’t retain his seat in 2014 after he switched the party to Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). When new Telangana government was formed in 2014, he couldn’t get through, despite being a state minister in previous tenures. However in 2016 by-elections, he won Paleru and gave resignation for MLC. He is the present Minster of Roads and Buildings, after being inducted to state cabinet.

Published: January 17, 2019

Updated: January 17, 2019

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