Nara Lokesh

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Lokesh in 2023
Minister of Human Resources Development
Government of Andhra Pradesh
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 June 2024
ChildrenNara Devaansh [2]
Parent(s) Nara Chandrababu Naidu (father)
Nara Bhuvaneswari (mother)
Residence(s) Undavalli, Andhra Pradesh, India [3]
Education
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician
Website www.naralokesh.in

Nara Lokesh (born 23 January 1983) is an Indian politician serving as the Minister of Information Technology, Electronics and Communications and the Human Resources Development departments in the Government of Andhra Pradesh and the General Secretary of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). He is the son of N. Chandrababu Naidu, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and leader of the TDP. Lokesh served as the Minister of Panchayat Raj and Rural Development and the Information Technology, Electronics and Communication departments from 2017 to 2019 while being elected as a Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) in 2017.

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In the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Lokesh unsuccessfully stood as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Mangalagiri Assembly constituency. In the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, he was elected as an MLA for Mangalagiri.

Early life and Education

Nara Lokesh was born on 23 January 1983 in a Telugu family to N. Chandrababu Naidu and his wife Nara Bhuvaneswari, daughter of N. T. Rama Rao in Hyderabad, Telangana (then part of Andhra Pradesh). [4] He has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and Bachelor of Science with a specialization in Management Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. [5]

Political career

Early political career

Lokesh started his Political Career in TDP. In 2014, Lokesh became TDP's General Secretary, [6] a member of the Politburo, the highest decision-making body of the party. He managed the party, interacted with party workers and citizens, and helped set the party policies and strategy. [7] He claimed in January 2013 that Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party derived the Direct Benefit Transfer System from a TDP proposal submitted to the central government. [8] He was first elected as the Member of Legislative Council in 2017. [9] Though he never won a direct election, he held several key positions in both party and state of Andhra Pradesh. His father N. Chandrababu Naidu, Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh made appointed him as a cabinet minister for IT, Panchayati Raj and Rural development in 2017 through. [10] [11] [12] In 2019, he unsuccessfully contested from the Mangalagiri constituency narrowly losing by a margin of 5,337 votes [13] to Alla Ramakrishna Reddy, a close aide of Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. [14] [15]

Lokesh is credited with successfully managing the TDP party's membership drive that added five million members. The digital technology used by the onboarding team – tablets, live data feeds and a real-time dashboard – was the first such use for enrolling and managing party members in the country. [16]

Development and welfare models

Lokesh is a trustee of NTR Trust for Healthcare, Education, Skills Enhancement and Disaster Management. [17] Lokesh supervise the Trust's disaster response program that functions at times of natural calamities. [17] Each active member of the party will get a personal insurance cover of ₹2 lakh in case of a fatal accident, ₹2 lakh for permanent disability, ₹1 lakh for the partially disabled, and ₹50,000 in case of accidental injuries. [18]

Lokesh-led party online membership drive fetched TDP 53+ lakh members. [19]

Padayatra

On 27 January 2023, Lokesh started Yuva Galam Padayatra for youth of Andhra Pradesh for 400 days with a road-map to walk 4,000 kms from Kuppam to Ichchapuram. [20] [21]

Later political career

In 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election he was elected as MLA of Mangalagiri with a majority of 91,413 votes in the constituency which was never won by Telugu Desam Party for 39 years. [22] [23] This was the third highest majority in this assembly election. [24]

Post Elections he was inducted in the Cabinet led by N. Chandrababu Naidu as Cabinet Minister with departments of Human Resources Development, Information Technology, Electronics and Communication, Real Time Governance. [25] [26]

Electoral history

Election results
YearOfficeConstituencyPartyVotes%OpponentPartyVotes%ResultRef
2019 MLA Mangalagiri Telugu Desam Party Indian Election Symbol Cycle.png 103,12742.14 Alla Ramakrishna Reddy YSR Congress Party Indian Election Symbol Ceiling Fan.svg 108,46445.47Lost [27]
2024 167,71066.07Murugudu Lavanya76,29730.06Won [28]

Awards and recognition

Lokesh won the "Skoch Person of the Year" award in 2018, for his innovative use of technology while resolving issues related to drinking water supply, transparency in governance, and other activities under his Panchayati Raj portfolio. [29]

In May 2018, he won the Business World magazine "Digital Leader of the Year" at the Businessworld Digital India summit in New Delhi. The award recognises the best utilisation of technology in governance. [30] The same year, the Kalam Centre for Livable Planet Earth and Sustainable Development recognised Lokesh's efforts in the successful integration of technology in rural governance and awarded the innovation award to Andhra Pradesh in the Panchayat Raj and Rural Development category. [31]

In September 2018, Lokesh was invited to represent India at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Entrepreneurship Summit and Annual Meeting of World Champions in Tianjin, China. [32] In the following month, he became the only Indian politician to be nominated to the WEF's Network of Global Future Councils (NGFC), an interdisciplinary knowledge group that deliberates on agile governance in terms of emerging technologies and business models. [33]

Personal life

In 2007, Lokesh married Nandamuri Bramhani, [34] elder daughter of actor and politician, Nandamuri Balakrishna. [5] [35] The couple have a son, Nara Devaansh. [36]

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