Dadisetti Ramalingeswara Rao | |
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Minister of Roads & Buildings[1] Government of Andhra Pradesh | |
In office 11 April 2022 – 4 June 2024 | |
Governor | |
Chief Minister | Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy |
Preceded by | Malagundla Sankaranarayana |
Succeeded by | B. C. Janardhan Reddy |
Member of Legislative Assembly Andhra Pradesh | |
In office 2014–2024 | |
Preceded by | Venkata Krishnam Raju Sriraja Vatsavayi |
Succeeded by | Yanamala Divya |
Constituency | Tuni |
Dadisetti Ramalingeswara Rao, commonly known as Raja, is the current Member of the Legislative Assembly (India) of Tuni in East Godavari District.[2] He is from the YSR Congress Party.[3]
Dadisetti Ramalingeswara Rao was born on 22 March 1976 to Sri Dadisetti Sankara Rao and Smt Satyanarayanamma in Tuni, Andhra Pradesh. They are traditionally a family of gold merchants. Rao graduated in Tuni. At the age of 32, he decided to enter politics full-time and joined the YSR Congress Party.[4]
He is married to Smt Lakshmi Chaitanya and has one son and one daughter.
Ramalingeswara Rao contested MLA elections for the first time in 2014 and won with a majority of 19,500 votes.[5] He is currently a member of the committee on public accounts in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, Tuni In 2019. Now he is Minister of A.P. cabinet.