Buggana Rajendranath Reddy | |
Birth Date: | 27 September 1970 |
Birth Place: | Bethamcherla, Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh |
Residence: | Bethamcherla |
Office1: | Member of Legislative Assembly Andhra Pradesh |
Term Start1: | 2014 |
Term End1: | 2024 |
Predecessor1: | K. E. Krishna Murthy |
Successor1: | Kotla Jaya Surya Prakash Reddy |
Constituency1: | Dhone |
Office: | Minister of Finance, Planning, Commercial Taxes & Legislative Affairs Government of Andhra Pradesh |
Term Start: | 8 June 2019 |
Term End: | 4 June 2024 |
Governor: |
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Blankname: | Chief Minister |
Namedata: | Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy |
Predecessor: | Yanamala Rama Krishnudu |
Successor: | Payyavula Keshav |
Alma Mater: | Vijayanagar Engineering College |
Occupation: | Politician Engineer |
Party: | YSR Congress Party |
Children: | 2 |
Citizenship: | India |
1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata: | Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy |
Buggana Rajendranath Reddy (born 27 September 1970) is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He is a two time MLA and also served as the Minister for Finance, Planning and Legislative Affairs in the Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy's ministry.[1] [2] [3] He has been nominated again by YSRCP to contest the Dhone Assembly seat in the 2024 Assembly Election.[4] [5]
Reddy was born in Bethamcherla of Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh, to Buggana Ramnath Reddy, a former sarpanch of Bethamcherla village and Buggana Parvathi Devi. His maternal grandfather, K. V. Reddy, was a prominent Indian film maker.[6]
He did his schooling at The Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet and pursued his pre university course at Madras Christian College, Chennai.[1] [2] He later graduated as Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Vijayanagar Engineering College, Bellary, in 1992.[7]
Reddy was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly representing Dhone Assembly constituency in the 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating K. E. Prathap of TDP by a margin of 11,152 votes.[8] From 2016 to 2019, he served as the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Andhra Pradesh.[9] He was elected for the second time as an MLA in the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating K. E. Prathap of Telugu Desam Party, again by a huge margin of 35,516 votes.[10]