Thummala Nageswara Rao

Thummala Nageswara Rao is a Congress politician who has been a 4 term minister in the Government of Andhra Pradesh and, later, in the Government of Telangana. In main portfolios [1] He is from the Khammam district.

Tummala Nageshwar Rao
Minister of Roads and Buildings
Government of Telangana
In office
16 December 2014 – 28 November 2018
Preceded byPosition Established
Succeeded byVemula Prashanth Reddy
Member of Telangana Legislative Assembly
In office
May 2016 – November 2018
Preceded byRamireddy Venkatareddy
Succeeded byKandala Upender Reddy
ConstituencyPalair
Member of Telangana Legislative Council
In office
2014–2016
Member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
1994–2004
Preceded byJalagam Prasada Rao
Succeeded byJalagam Prasada Rao
ConstituencySathupalli
Personal details
Born (1953-11-15) 15 November 1953
Gollagudem, East Godavari District, Andhra State (present-day Telangana), India
Political partyIndian National Congress
( 2023 – Present)
Other political
affiliations		Bharat Rashtra Samiti
(2014-2023)
Telugu Desam Party
(1982 - 2014)
ChildrenTummala Yugandhar, Mohini Popuri, Chandrika Vallabhaneni
Residence(s)Khammam, Telangana
EducationB.Com

Early life

Nageshwar Rao was born on 15 November 1953 and is from Gollagudem village (Gandugula Palli) of Dammapeta Mandal in Khammam District. He completed B.Com before entering in politics.

Career

He joined TDP in 1982 election but lost the 1983 election. Rao was elected on three occasions to the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh as a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) candidate from Sathupalli constituency, in 1985, 1994 and 1999.[2]

Though he is actually from Sathupalli, due to changes in reservation of seats in constituencies, he contested the 2009 elections from the Khammam constituency and defeated his opponents Younis Sulthan and Jalagam Venkatrao.

He contested that seat again in the elections of 2014 and lost by a margin of little over 6,000 votes.[3] On that latter occasion, the election was for the Telangana Legislative Assembly due to the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

He joined Bharat Rashtra Samithi in September 2014,[1][4] and was inducted into cabinet in December 2014 and serving as Minister for Roads and Buildings Department in present TRS Government.[5] He resigned from the BRS and joined the Indian national Congress in September 2023 after he was denied a BRS ticket to fight elections. [6]

Having served for some time as a member of the Telangana Legislative Council, in May 2016 Rao again gained an Assembly seat when he won the Palair constituency in a by-election,[7] winning with a majority of 45,676 votes.[8] On this occasion he was a BRS candidate,[9] and was inducted into cabinet in December 2014, serving as Minister for Roads and Buildings.

Positions held

As a TDP MLA in the Andhra Pradesh legislature, Rao was Minor Irrigation Minister in the cabinet led by N. T. Rama Rao and held the ministerial portfolios of Prohibition and Excise, Major Irrigation, and Roads and Buildings at various times during the successive governments led by Chandrababu Naidu.[1]

In December 2014, soon after leaving the TDP for the TRS, Rao became a minister in the TRS cabinet. He took the portfolios of Roads and Buildings, and Women and Child Development.[10]

References
  1. Sridhar, Ponnam (17 December 2014). "Khammam ultimately gets representation in Cabinet". The Hindu. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  2. "Sathupalli (SC) (Telangana) Assembly Constituency Elections". Infobase. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  3. "Khammam (Telangana) Assembly Constituency Elections". Infobase. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  4. Telangana leader Tummala Nageswar Rao quits TDP, may join TRS
  5. Tummala Joins TRS Along With Host of TD Leaders
  6. Service, Indo-Asian News (16 September 2023). "Telangana: Ex-BRS minister Tummala joins Congress". The Siasat Daily. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  7. "Fareeduddin takes oath as MLC, pledges to join hands with CM for Golden Telangana". The Siasat Daily. 21 October 2016.
  8. TRS wrests Palair assembly seat from Congress with huge win
  9. "TRS Nominates Nageswara Rao For Palair Seat Bypoll". NDTV. PTI. 22 April 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  10. "Telangana Cabinet expanded". Business Line. 16 December 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
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