Katipally Venkata Ramana Reddy | |
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Member of Telangana Legislative Assembly | |
Assumed office 2023 | |
Preceded by | Gampa Govardhan |
Constituency | Kamareddy |
Personal details | |
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Other political affiliations |
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Katipally Venkata Ramana Reddy (born 1970) [1] is an Indian politician from Telangana. He is a member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly from Kamareddy Assembly constituency representing the Bharatiya Janata Party. In the 2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election,he defeated both the incumbent chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and the then to-be-elected chief minister Revanth Reddy. [2] [3] He defeated his nearest rival,KCR,by 6741 votes. [4]
Ramana Reddy was appointed as BJP Legislature Party deputy floor on 14 February 2024. [5]
Ramana Reddy is a businessperson from Kamareddy,Telangana. He dropped out of formal education after his Class 12. [6] His father,Katipally Raji Reddy,was a Kamareddy panchayat samiti president. [7]
Reddy worked as a member of the Zilla Parishad Territorial Council in the undivided Nizamabad district in 2004 and went on to become ZP chairman. [2] Earlier,he worked in the Indian National Congress and when Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy,the then chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh passed away,he joined TRS,now renamed BRS. Before the 2018 elections,he joined BJP and contested as MLA but finished a distant third. [8] In the recent years,he is credited with taking up local issues. [9] His donations and support in supplying building materials for the construction of temples in the constituency is said to be one of the reasons that helped him gain a voter base. He also spearheaded the agitation to oppose the 'Master Plan' for Kamareddy that was mooted by the then BRS government. [4] [10]
In the 2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election,he ran as Bharatiya Janata Party candidate for the Kamareddy seat. He defeated both Bharat Rashtra Samithi's incumbent chief minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao,and Congress INC stalwart Revanth Reddy who became next chief minister. [11] [12] [13] BJP won in Kamareddy seat for the first-time . [14]
In an affidavit filed to the Election Commission of India,he declared assets amounting to ₹49 crore (US$5.7 million). [15]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | K. V. Ramana Reddy | 66,652 | 34.55 | ||
BRS | Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao | 59,911 | 31.06 | ||
INC | Anumula Revanth Reddy | 54,916 | 28.47 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 474 | 0.25 | ||
Majority | 6,741 | 3.49 | |||
Turnout | 1,92,889 | ||||
BJP gain from BRS | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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TRS | Gampa Govardhan | 68,167 | 42.02 | ||
INC | Mohammed Ali Shabbir | 63,610 | 39.21 | ||
BJP | K. V. Ramana Reddy | 15,439 | 9.52 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 1,471 | 0.91 | ||
Majority | 5,007 | 2.81 | |||
Turnout | 1,62,228 | 78.83 | |||
TRS hold | Swing |
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