Palle Raghunatha Reddy is a politician from Andhra Pradesh. He is a two-time Member of the Legislative Assembly representing the Nallamada and Puttaparthi constituencies for the Telugu Desam Party winning in 1999 and 2014 elections. [3] He also served as Information Technology minister. [4]
Reddy hails from Puttaparthi,Anantapur District.,Palle Raghunath Reddy is the chairman of the P.V.K.K. Institute of Technology and Sri Balaji Education Society,Anantapur. [5]
Reddy was first elected in 1999 assembly elections from the Nallamada constituency in Anantapur district. He later served as Chief Government Whip [6] but encountered serious opposition from inside the party. [7] In 2007,he was elected to the Legislative Council. [8]
He along with Nara Chandra Babu launched AP Cloud Initiative at Visakhapatnam. [9]
Later,he won the 2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election defeating Kadapala Mohan Reddy of Indian National Congress by a margin of 1,021 votes. [10] He won again in 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election defeating Chinthapanti Somasekhara Reddy of YSR Congress Party by a margin of 6,964 votes. [10]