| Office: | Minister of Roads & Buildings[1] Government of Andhra Pradesh |
| Term Start: | 11 April 2022 |
| Term End: | 4 June 2024 |
| Governor: | |
| 1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
| 1Namedata: | Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy |
| Predecessor: | Malagundla Sankaranarayana |
| Successor: | B. C. Janardhan Reddy |
| Office1: | Member of Legislative Assembly Andhra Pradesh |
| Term Start1: | 2014 |
| Predecessor1: | Venkata Krishnam Raju Sriraja Vatsavayi |
| Successor1: | Yanamala Divya |
| Constituency1: | Tuni |
| Termend1: | 2024 |
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.