The Bharat Rashtra Samithi,formerly known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi,is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in the state of Telangana and currently the primary opposition party in the state. It was founded on 27 April 2001 by K. Chandrashekar Rao,with a single-point agenda of creating a separate Telangana state with Hyderabad as its capital. It has been instrumental in carrying forth a sustained agitation for the granting of statehood to Telangana.
Koratala Satyanarayana was a communist politician from Andhra Pradesh,India. He was a Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Sudini Jaipal Reddy was an Indian politician who was the Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha of India for five terms. He represented the Chevella constituency of Telangana and was a member of the Indian National Congress. He served as a Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting in the I. K. Gujral cabinet in 1998. In 1999 he returned to Indian National Congress after 21 years. In 2004 he was re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha from Miryalaguda Lok Sabha Constituency and then he served as a Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Union Minister for Urban Development in the United Progressive Alliance-1. In 2009 he was re-elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from the Chevella constituency and served as a Union Minister for Urban Development and Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas. He was the Union Minister for the Ministry of Earth Sciences and the Ministry of Science and Technology from 29 October 2012 to 18 May 2014.
Bandaru Dattatreya is an Indian politician serving as the current governor of the State of Haryana since 2021. He was also the 20th governor of Himachal Pradesh and was the member of Lok Sabha for Secunderabad from 2014 to 2019. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy was an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. A member of the Indian National Congress,he represented the Visakhapatnam constituency in the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian legislature. From 1990 to 1992,he served as 12th chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. His wife,Nedurumalli Rajyalakshmi,was a minister in the Government of Andhra Pradesh between 2004 and 2014.
Marri Chenna Reddy was an Indian politician active in several states. He was the 6th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 1978 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1990. He also served as the governor of Uttar Pradesh (1974–1977),governor of Punjab (1982–1983),governor of Rajasthan from February 1992 to May 1993,and governor of Tamil Nadu from 1993 until his death. He was a leader of Indian National Congress Party.
Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu was an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He served as the Union Minister in H. D. Deve Gowda and I. K. Gujral Cabinets. Formerly,he was the Legislator of Andhra Pradesh,won four times from the Harishchandrapuram. Further,he contested successfully from Srikakulam Parliament four times.
Gaddam Venkatswamy was an Indian politician who was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha.
Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency is one of the seventeen (17) Lok Sabha constituencies in Telangana state in southern India. Delimitation of Hyderabad Lok Sabha Constituency took place in 2008. Apart from Hyderabad constituency,there are four other Lok Sabha constituencies in and around capital city of Hyderabad -Malkajgiri,Secunderabad,Chevella and Medak.
Nandi Yellaiah was an Indian politician from Indian National Congress party who served as a member of the Parliament of India from Nagarkurnool constituency of Telangana state in the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian Parliament.
Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao is an Indian politician from Telangana,associated with Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as Governor of Maharashtra from 2014 to 2019. As a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party,he had served as a Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government from 1999. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998 and 1999 from Karimnagar.
Daggubati Purandeswari is an Indian politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. She is the president of Bharatiya Janata Party,Andhra Pradesh. She is currently serving as a Member of Parliament of Lok Sabha representing the Rajahmundry Lok Sabha constituency.
Ponnam Prabhakar is an Indian politician and Currently Serving as Minister of Transport and BC Welfare in Telangana. He was a member of 15th Lok Sabha. He was the Working President of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee. He belongs to the Indian National Congress and represented the Karimnagar constituency of Andhra Pradesh. He was the youngest Member of Parliament who represented Karimnagar constituency between 2009-14.
Konijeti Rosaiah was an Indian politician who served as the 15th chief minister of Andhra Pradesh from 2009 to 2010. He also served as the Governor of Tamil Nadu from 2011 to 2016 and the Governor of Karnataka for two months. He was previously an MLC,MLA and MP from the Indian National Congress numerous times and handled many ministerial posts over his political career spanning over half a century.
Dr. P. Shankar Rao is an Indian veteran politician from the state of Telangana. He is a member of Indian National Congress Party and has been elected representative on five occasions,as a Member of a Legislative Assembly in Andhra Pradesh.
Botcha Satyanarayana is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He belonged to the Indian National Congress until 2015 and he joined the YSR Congress on 7 June 2015. He is a former cabinet minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development in Andhra Pradesh.
Madhavaneni Raghunandan Rao 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.
The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2014,commonly known as the Telangana Act,is an Act of Indian Parliament that split the state of Andhra Pradesh into Telangana and the residuary Andhra Pradesh state,as an outcome of the Telangana movement. The Act defined the boundaries of the two states,determined how the assets and liabilities were to be divided,and laid out the status of Hyderabad as the permanent capital of new Telangana state and temporary capital of the Andhra Pradesh state.
Samudrala Venugopal Chary is an Indian politician and was Member of Parliament of India for three consecutive terms. He was a member of the 11th,12th and the 13th Lok Sabhas. Chary was also a member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Chary represented the Adilabad constituency of Andhra Pradesh and is a member of the Indian National Congress and formerly of Bharat Rashtra Samithi.
Ramasahayam Surender Reddy is a former Indian Member of Parliament and Member of Legislative Assembly who represented Mahabubabad of Andhra State in the 3rd Lok Sabha and Warangal in the 4th,9th and 10th Lok Sabha.
