Raghu Rama Krishna Raju

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Raghu Rama Krishna Raju
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Member of Legislative Assembly
Andhra Pradesh
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12 June 2024

Kanumuru Raghu Rama Krishna Raju (born 14 May 1962) is an Indian industrialist and politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 17th Lok Sabha representing Narasapuram constituency, Andhra Pradesh. He belongs to Telugu Desam Party. [1]

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Early life

Raghu Rama Krishna Raju was born on 14 May 1962 in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh to Kanumuru Venkata Satya Suryanarayana Raju and Annapoorna. He studied Master of Pharmacy at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. [2]

Raju married Rama Devi in 1980. The couple have a son and a daughter. [2]

Political career

Raghu Rama Krishna Raju, a politician from the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), quit the party in 2014 after failing to secure the party's nomination for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In 2018, he left the BJP and joined the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Then, in March 2024, he quit the YSRCP again and rejoined the TDP, thereby changing parties a total of 5 times in a span of 9 years. [3]

He has contested in the 2019 elections from the Narasapuram Lok Sabha constituency as a YSRCP candidate. He has won the election securing 38.11% votes polled with a majority of 31,909 votes against TDP's Vetukuri Venkata Siva Rama Raju.

Raju is an outspoken critic of his party and its chief and current chief minister, Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. [3] The differences between them were made public in November 2019 when Raju spoke out against the Andhra Pradesh government's effort to convert Telugu medium government schools to English medium. Ever since he spoke against his party and alleged scams in several government schemes. [4]

In July 2020, YSRCP appealed to the Lok Sabha speaker to disqualify Raju from him as an MP stating Raju's anti-party activities as the reason. [5] In October 2020, Raju wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging that Jaganmohan Reddy was promoting evangelism in Andhra Pradesh, in violation of the Indian constitution. [6]

He is nominated as candidate from TDP for Undi Assembly constituency for 2024 AP elections. [7]

In March 2021, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked a case against Raju and his family members, who are directors of Ind Bharath Power Gencom Limited on charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery of valuable security, using forged documents as genuine and criminal misconduct of a public servant. The case was booked on behalf of a complaint by the State Bank of India alleging that the borrowing company, its directors, and public servants conspired and committed the acts of cheating and siphoned off bank funds to the tune of ₹947 crore (equivalent to ₹11 billionorUS$130 million in 2023). [8]

In April 2021, he has asked a CBI Special court to cancel the bail granted to Jagan Mohan Reddy. He alleged that the chief minister, who is on bail since 2012 on his disproportionate assets case, has violated the bail condition. [3]

On 14 May 2021, Raju was arrested by the Andhra Pradesh Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on the charges of sedition for "disturbing communal harmony and attacking dignitaries of the Jagan Mohan Reddy government". [3] On 21 May, the Supreme Court of India has granted him bail on a ₹1 lakh (equivalent to ₹1.1 lakhorUS$1,300 in 2023) bond, stating the charges against him did not require custodial interrogation and referred to his bodily injuries mentioned in the medical report prepared by Secunderabad Army Hospital doctors. [9]

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