| B. K. Parthasarathi | |
| Birth Date: | 3 September 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Roddam, Anantapur |
| Constituency2: | Penukonda |
| Office2: | Member of Legislative Assembly, Andhra Pradesh |
| Term Start2: | 2009 |
| Term End2: | 2019 |
| Successor2: | Malagundla Sankaranarayana |
| Constituency1: | Hindupur |
| Term Start1: | 1999 |
| Term End1: | 2004 |
| Successor1: | G. Nizamuddin |
| Constituency: | Hindupur |
| Office: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
| Term Start: | 2024 |
| Predecessor: | Kuruva Gorantla Madhav |
| Party: | Telugu Desam Party |
| Education: | Bangalore University (B.A.) |
| Father: | B. K. Nanjaiah |
| Mother: | B. K. Sanjeevamma |
| Spouse: | B. K. Kalavathi |
| Children: | 6 |
| Source: | http://docs2.myneta.info/affidavits/ews3ap2014/1981/B%20K%20PARTHASARATHI.pdf |
| Occupation: | Politician |
B. K. Parthasarathi is an Andhra Pradesh politician. He is the leader of the Telugu Desam Party and has won twice as an MLA from the Penukonda constituency. He won from Hindupur in the 2024 Indian general election.[1]
Parthasarathi entered politics by becoming Zilla Parishad chairman of the Anantapur district in 1996. In 1999, TDP offered him the MP seat of Hindupur and he won with a majority of 134,636,[2] defeating S. Gangadhar of the Congress Party.
In the 2004 Loksabha elections, he was defeated by G. Nizamuddin with a narrow margin of 1,840 votes.
In the 2009 election, he contested as an MLA candidate from Penukonda and won[3] in a triangular fight by 14,385 votes, defeating K T Sreedhar of Congress Party.
In the 2014 elections, he again won[4] by defeating Malagundla Sankaranarayana, of YSR Congress Party. In 2019, Malagundla Sankaranarayana defeated[5] him by a wide margin.[6]
He became a Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams board member in April 2018.[7] [8] He became district Telugu Desam Party president in 2009.