Raghunandan Rao | |
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Member of parliament, Loksabha | |
Assumed office 04 June 2024 | |
Preceded by | Kotha Prabhakar Reddy |
Constituency | Medak |
Member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly | |
In office 10 November 2020 –03 December 2023 | |
Preceded by | Solipeta Ramalinga Reddy |
Succeeded by | Kotha Prabhakar Reddy |
Constituency | Dubbak |
Personal details | |
Born | Siddipet,Telangana,India | March 23,1968
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Other political affiliations | BRS,Congress |
Spouse | Manjula Devi ( m. 1991 ) |
Children | 1 |
Residence(s) | Patancheru,Telangana |
Nickname | Ragu Anna |
Madhavaneni Raghunandan Rao [1] (born 23 March 1968) is an Indian politician from Telangana state and a member of parliament representing from Medak Lok Sabha constituency. Previously he served as an MLA for Dubbak Assembly constituency. He is a strong supporter of Telangana state ideology. He is a lawyer by profession. He hails from Medak district.
Rao was born at Siddipet to M. Bhagavantha Rao in Velama caste. He earned a B.Sc. degree at Siddipet Degree College,completed a L.L.B. degree at Osmania University,Hyderabad,a B.Ed. degree from Karnataka University,and a post-graduate diploma in human rights from Central University of Hyderabad. [2]
After completing his education,Rao relocated from Siddipet to Patancheru,an industrial area,in 1991 and joined a reputed Telugu daily newspaper Eenadu as a news contributor for five years. He subsequently,enrolled as an advocate in the bar association of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh. [3]
He started his career as a lawyer. He is well known for handling Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi's bail petition. [4]
Rao started his political career as a Telangana Rashtra Samithi member. [5] He was with Telangana Rashtra Samithi from 27 April 2001. He is the politburo member and Medak district convenor. [6] On 14 May 2013 he was suspended from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi party [4] on allegations of meeting with Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu which he actively denied. [7] Subsequently,he joined in Congress But resigned to party within few days and joined BJP then contested the Legislative Assembly elections from Dubbak constituency of Telangana state in the year 2014. He is state party secretary and MLA of Bharatiya Janata Party in Telangana. [8] Currently he is Member of Legislative Assembly in Telangana Dubbak in 2020 by-poll election by a margin of 1,074 votes,after death of Solipeta Ramalinga Reddy. [9] [10]
Raghunandan Rao In 2023 Assembly elections contested from Dubbak Assembly segment and lost to BRS Candidate Kotha Prabhakar Reddy by a margin of 53,513 votes. [11] His Contested in 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Medak and won with a majority of 39139 votes on his nearest opponent from Congress Party Neelam Madhu. [12]
The police said,a 47-year-old woman made a complaint in February 2020 claiming that she was raped in 2007 by advocate M Raghunandan Rao,following which a rape case was filed against him. [13] She claimed the advocate called her to his Patancheru office in 2007 and offered coffee mixed with some substances and "raped" her when she became unconscious while she filed a harassment case against her husband and maintenance case through Advocate Rao. The police said,the woman claimed in the complaint that the advocate had threatened to post photos taken in compromising positions on Social networks. [14] [15] Rao has called the allegations false. [16] [17]
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