N. Raghuveera Reddy Yadav | |
Birth Name: | Raghuveera Reddy |
Birth Date: | 1957 2, df=y |
Birth Place: | Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India |
Residence: | Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
Office: | 21st President of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee |
1Blankname: | AICC President |
1Namedata: |
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Term Start: | 11 March 2014 |
Term End: | 16 January 2020 |
Predecessor: | Botsa Satyanarayana |
Successor: | Sake Sailajanath |
Office1: | Minister of Revenue, Relief, Rehabilitation, Disaster Management and ULC Government of Andhra Pradesh |
Term Start1: | 25 November 2010 |
Term End1: | 21 February 2014 |
Governor1: | E. S. L. Narasimhan |
1Blankname1: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata1: | Kiran Kumar Reddy |
Successor1: | Office Dissolved |
Office2: | Minister of Agriculture Government of Andhra Pradesh |
Term Start2: | 25 May 2009 |
Term End2: | 24 November 2010 |
Governor2: | |
1Blankname2: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata2: | |
Predecessor2: | Himself |
Successor2: | Kanna Lakshminarayana |
Term Start3: | 14 May 2004 |
Term End3: | 20 May 2009 |
Governor3: | |
1Blankname3: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata3: | Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy |
Predecessor4: | Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao |
Successor4: | Ramreddy Venkat Reddy |
Office5: | Member of Legislative Assembly Andhra Pradesh |
Term Start5: | 2009 |
Term End5: | 2014 |
Predecessor5: | B C Govindappa |
Successor5: | Hanumantaraya Chowdary |
Constituency5: | Kalyandurg |
Term Start6: | 1999 |
Term End6: | 2009 |
Predecessor6: | Y. T. Prabhakara Reddy |
Successor6: | K. Sudhakar |
Constituency6: | Madakasira |
Term Start7: | 1989 |
Term End7: | 1994 |
Predecessor7: | H. B. Narase Gowd |
Successor7: | Y. T. Prabhakara Reddy |
Constituency7: | Madakasira |
Children: | 2 |
Party: | Indian National Congress |
Neelakantapuram Raghuveera Reddy (born 12 February 1957) is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. He was appointed President, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee in March, 2014.
Raghuveera Reddy was born on 12 February 1957 in Anantapur district to N. Kaveerappa and he belongs to a Yadava caste.[1] He did his B.Sc. and Bachelors in Law from SK University.
Kannada film director Prashanth Neel is Reddy's cousin.[2]
Raghuveera Reddy Yadav, is a three times M.L.A. from Madakasira Assembly Constituency. He has been changed to Kalyandurg Constituency during 2009 elections after the reorganisation of constituencies. Raghuveera Reddy contested and won from Kalyandurg Assembly Constituency in 2009 elections.
He served as a Minister for Agriculture in Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s cabinet and continued with the same in Konijeti Rosaiah’s government as well. In Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy's government he had crucial portfolio of Revenue Minister in the reorganisation of cabinet.[3]
He was elected as the Congress Committee President for the residual Andhra Pradesh (post bifurcation into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) on 11 March 2014.
Reddy is married to Sunitha and has a daughter and a son.