| Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu | |
| Birth Date: | 18 December 1987 |
| Birth Place: | Nimmada, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Residence: | Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Alma Mater: | Purdue University (B.S.) Long Island University (M.B.A.) |
| Office: | 33rd Union Minister of Civil Aviation |
| Term Start: | 10 June 2024 |
| Primeminister: | Narendra Modi |
| President: | Draupadi Murmu |
| Predecessor: | Jyotiraditya Scindia |
| Office1: | National General Secretary, Telugu Desam Party |
| Term Start1: | 2017 |
| Alongside1: | Nara Lokesh |
| 1Blankname1: | National President |
| 1Namedata1: | N. Chandrababu Naidu |
| Predecessor1: | Position established |
| Office2: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
| Constituency2: | Srikakulam |
| Term Start2: | 16 May 2014 |
| Predecessor2: | Killi Krupa Rani |
| Party: | Telugu Desam Party |
| Relatives: | Kinjarapu Atchannaidu (uncle) Adireddy Bhavani (sister) Bandaru Satyanarayana (uncle) |
| Father: | Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu |
| Mother: | Vijaya Kumari Kinjarapu |
| Spouse: | [1] |
Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu (born 18 December 1987) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 33th Minister of Civil Aviation since June 2024. He represents Srikakulam in the Lok Sabha constituency as a Member of Parliament. He won the general elections in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Lok Sabha. He won the 2014 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh for the first time and retained the seat in 2019 and 2024 as a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) candidate. He is also the National General Secretary of the TDP[2] and the Leader of the Party in the Lok Sabha.
Naidu was born in Nimmada, Srikakulam. He is the son of Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu;[3] a Telugu Desam Party leader and Kinjarapu Vijayakumari. His father was a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Tekkali constituency and then became a Member of Parliament (MP) from Srikakulam and later served as a Union Minister for Rural Development in the United Front government between 1996 and 1998. He completed his primary schooling in Srikakulam and later on joined Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram, Delhi, to complete his school education after his father became an MP and moved to Delhi. He then earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University, United States and an MBA from Long Island University. He worked for a year in Singapore before returning to India.[4] His uncle, Kinjarapu Atchannaidu, is also a Minister in the Government of Andhra Pradesh and also a senior politician in TDP.
Naidu married Sravya Bandaru in June 2017, the youngest daughter of the former minister and Telugu Desam Party Vice-President, Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy.[5]
Naidu entered politics in 2012 after the death of his father.[6] He now represents Srikakulam Parliamentary constituency. He was made the MP constituency in charge in 2013. In 2014, he contested the elections for Srikakulam Constituency and won with a margin of 127,576 votes.[7] Kinjarupu is the second youngest Member of Parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha. He introduced a private members bill to draw the attention of the centre towards Andhra Pradesh Railway Zone with Visakhapatnam as its headquarters.[8] [9] In the 2024 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh, he represented TDP and won by a majority of 3,27,901 votes from the Srikakulam Lok Sabha constituency.[10] [11] [12] He is an incumbent Union Minister of Civil Aviation, India.[13] [14]
Performance in the Lok Sabha, 2019-20[15]
| MP performance parameters (2019–20) | Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu | |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance in parliament | 90%, against state average 79% and National average 84% | |
| Questions raised | 69, against state average 49 and National Average 49 | |
| Debates Participated | 34, against a state average 13 and National Average 14.5 | |
| Private Member Bills | 0, against state average 0 and National Average 0.3 | |
| Number of criminal cases | None |
He is a member of the standing committee on Railways and Home Affairs, Consultative Committee on Ministry of Tourism and Culture and in the Committee on Welfare of other Backward Classes and Official Language Department in the 16th Lok Sabha.[16]
Kinjarapu has represented India at the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly in the 22nd meeting of the first committee on Disarmament. He emphasized on India's commitment to protecting the ideals of the UN charter and international peace through genuine pursuit for multilateralism. On behalf of India, he attached importance to productive measures in Nuclear Disarmament and Non- Proliferation in all aspects at the United Nations.[17]
Kinjarapu believes youth has a major role to play in politics, and politics isn't just about elections but, it's about solving the problems of people. With the same idea, he started an internship program, “Politics for Impact” to increase the opportunity for the youth to participate in politics and give them exposure to governance. 210 Students from over 16 states and 130 colleges had applied for the internship out of which 18 students were selected to work on issues in his constituency for a period of 2 months.[18]
On 10 June 2024, Naidu was allocated the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
| Party | Votes | % | Result | Ref | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | MP | Srikakulam | Telugu Desam Party | 556,163 | 52.90 | Reddy Shanthi | YSR Congress Party | 428,591 | 40.76 | [19] | |||
| 2019 | 534,544 | 46.19 | Duvvada Srinivas | 527,891 | 45.61 | ||||||||
| 2024 | 754,328 | 61.05 | Tilak Perada | 426,427 | 34.51 |
In October 2019, he wrote an article in The News Minute strongly criticizing the Andhra Pradesh government under Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy for its sand mining policy. After coming to power in May 2019, sand mining was banned for more than 3 months until a new policy was put in place in September 2019. He wrote on how this policy "ended up putting more than 20 lakh laborers out of their daily jobs and caused deep pain to their families" and how it "brought the construction industry to a standstill for 3 months."[21]