Jalagam Venkat Rao

Jalagam Venkat Rao
జలగం వెంకట రావు
Member of Legislative Assembly
In office
2014-2017
ConstituencyKothagudem (Assembly constituency)
Member of Legislative Assembly
In office
2004 - 2009
ConstituencySathupalli
Personal details
Born (1968-04-18) 18 April 1968 (age 56)
Khammam, Telangana
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Other political
affiliations		Bharat Rashtra Samithi
Indian National Congress
All India Forward Bloc
RelationsJalagam Prasada Rao (brother)
ParentJalagam Vengala Rao (father)
ResidenceKothagudem
OccupationPolitician

Jalagam Venkat Rao (born 18 April 1967) is a former member of the legislative assembly representing Kothagudem Assembly constituency.[1] He won the 2004 elections from Sathupalli constituency and 2014 elections from Kothagudem constituency.

Early life

He was born to 5th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Jalagam Vengala Rao in Khammam, Khammam district. He has an elder brother, Jalagam Prasada Rao, a former minister. He studied towards his BS Computer science in the USA.

Career

He was a technocrat and was running a software company in Hyderabad, VJ Info.[2]

Political career

Jalagam Venkat Rao was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh, representing the INC for the same constituency, Sathupalli (Assembly constituency), just as his father.[3][4]

TRS

Jalagam Venkat Rao won as MLA from Kothagudem assembly constituency in 2014 general elections, the first and the only TRS legislator from the Khammam district.[5] In 2018 Telangana Assembly Elections he contested as MLA from Kothagudem Assembly constituency representing the then Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and had lost to his Congress rival Vanama Venkateswara Rao. Venkata Rao challenged Venkateswara Rao's election on the ground that the latter had given misleading information in the affidavit and later filed a case in January 2019. The Telangana High Court, after four years of courtroom battle, held that Venkateswara Rao stood disqualified as Kothagudem MLA Tuesday, 25 July 2023.[6]

BJP

Jalagam joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 10 March 2024 in the presence of party's General Secretary and Telangana state incharge Tarun Chugh at central party headquarters in New Delhi ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha elections.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ State will set up steel plant at Bayyaram: KTR - The Hindu
  2. ^ The Hindu Business Line : AP result — Mixed reactions from technology sector
  3. ^ "Jalagam Vengala Rao remembered". The Hindu. 6 May 2009. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  4. ^ "MLAs". Government of Andhra Pradesh. Archived from the original on 18 December 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  5. ^ Kothagudem MLA inspects check dam
  6. ^ The Hindu (25 July 2023). "Telangana HC declares Kothagudem MLA Venkateshwar Rao's election as not valid". Archived from the original on 25 July 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  7. ^ Deccan Chronicle (10 March 2024). "Two Former Brs MPs Joined Bjp". Archived from the original on 10 March 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  8. ^ The Hindu (10 March 2024). "More BRS leaders, including ex-MPs and MLAs, join BJP". Archived from the original on 10 March 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2024.