V. V. Lakshminarayana Explained

V. V. Lakshminarayana
Birth Name:Vasagiri Venkata Lakshminarayana
Birth Date:1965 4, df=yes
Birth Place:Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India
Other Names:JD Lakshminaryana
Years Active:1990–2018
Party:Jai Bharat National party

Vasagiri Venkata Lakshminarayana popularly known as JD Lakshmi Narayana, is an Indian retired police officer and politician from Andhra Pradesh. He served as the Additional Director General of Police in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is known for leading the investigations like OMC Scandal, Emaar Properties, Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy Case, Satyam Scandal and Disproportionate Assets.[1] [2] He had previously held the post of Joint Commissioner of Police of Thane, Maharashtra and before that as Inspector general of police Rank under Y-category security for dealing with high-profile corruption cases.[3] [4] He contested from Visakhapatnam constituency in the 2019 Indian general election from Jana Sena Party. He has resigned from the Jana Sena Party in 2020.

Early life

He was born on 3 April 1965 in Kadapa Dist Andhra Pradesh and was brought up in Srisailam, Kurnool Dist, Andhra Pradesh, where his father was an Irrigation officer and mother was a School teacher . He received his Bachelor of Technology in the Mechanical Engineering from the NIT Warangal in 1986. He did his MTech from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He was an Addl. Director General of Police, Maharashtra cadre from the 1990 batch of Indian Police Service. He secured all India rank 204 in Civil Services.[5]

Career

He worked as a Superintendent of police for Nanded and then for the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad. He was posted as Deputy inspector general of police (DIG) at Hyderabad on 12 June 2006, as he was keen to work for the CBI agency. He was initially posted as the CBI unit head for a period of five years and then given extension for two years on his promotion as the Joint Director. He successfully investigated the Satyam Scandal as a Deputy inspector general of police Rank.[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] As a Joint Director of CBI, he carried out Investigations of Obulapuram Mining Corporation (OMC) case and Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy's Disproportionate Assets case among other 27 high-profile cases.

He is known for his impact speeches and has interacted with more than 30 lakh youth so far. He was an active member of Lead India Foundation which was started with the blessings of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. Sri. V.V. Lakshmi Narayana donated blood 58 times.

Sri. V.V. Lakshmi Narayana has announced that he would adopt villages that voluntarily prohibit alcohol. Following on these lines, he has adopted three villages, Chinnamandadi of Mahabubnagar District, Sahalalaputtuga of Srikakulam District and Seetharamapuram of Vizianagaram District.

He took voluntary retirement in 2018 and extensively toured all the 13 Districts of Andhra Pradesh understanding prominent issues especially those of farmers, youth and women.

Political career

After his tour to all the Districts, he has announced that issues of farmers, youth, women would be his areas of focus, and that zero budget politics would be his primary agenda. Lakshminarayana later met with Jana Sena party president[14] Pawan Kalyan and joined Jana Sena Party. He has contested for Visakhapatnam (Lok Sabha constituency) in the Indian General Elections – 2019. He finished the race by standing in third place. He secured 2,88, 754 votes. He resigned to Janasena party on 30 January 2020 due to some internal reasons such as the party supremo re-entry to films.[15]

He started Jai Bharat National party on Friday 22 December 2023 to bring change in politics. He has filed his nomination from the Visakhapatnam North Assembly constituency for the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.[16]

A foundation by the name Join for Development Foundation has been started under his Chairmanship and is working in the areas of Agriculture, Rural Development, Youth innovations, Environment and related areas. A Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) has been initiated by the Foundation at Yazili, Guntur District. The temple town of Bhadrachalam has been made plastic free with the initiative of the foundation. Dr. Abdul Kalam Innovation festival has been organised and the young innovators have been suitably rewarded and felicitated.

Awards

Narayana has received the Indian police medal in 2006. He also has been awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize by the Minority Commission of Maharashtra. He has been conferred with the Presidents Police Medal for Distinguished Services on 26 January 2017. He has also received "Distinguished Alumnus" award in 2016 from his alma mater NIT Warangal in the category of Distinguished Alumni Public Service Award (DAPSA).

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jagan to stay in jail till 11 June, a day before key elections:NDTV.
  2. News: DA case: Jagan's custody extended, Sabitha appears in court . https://archive.today/20130825223638/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130607/jsp/frontpage/story_16981757.jsp%23.UhpdPETqX_Y . dead . 25 August 2013 . Calcutta, India . The Telegraph . 7 June 2013.
  3. Web site: Security for CBI official probing Jagan case. 2 April 2012 . Andhra Pradesh has provided 'z' category security to CBI Joint Director V.V. Laxminarayana, who is heading investigations into cases, including an illegal assets case against YSR Congress party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy and the Sohrabuddin encounter case. Deccan Herald. 2 April 2012 .
  4. News: V.V. Lakshminarayana transferred to Mumbai . Chennai, India . The Hindu . 8 June 2013.
  5. Web site: About CBI Joint Director VV Lakshminarayana . 22 April 2011 . He feels strongly about corruption. His plus point is his handling of legal issues, especially documentation (since in all the cases he has investigated, the documents seized ran into thousands of pages). He does not get bogged down by work pressure. Till now, he donated his blood 54 times.. cyberscrap.blogspot.in . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120204202526/http://cyberscrap.blogspot.in/2011/08/about-cbi-joint-director-vv.html . 4 February 2012.
  6. News: Emaar case: CBI Joint Director briefs Andhra Chief Secretary on probe progress . 31 January 2012 . CBI Joint Director V V Lakshmi Narayana today met Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary Pankaj Dwivedi and briefed him about the arrest of Principal Secretary (Home) B P Acharya in the Emaar Properties scandal. . The Economic Times . 2 April 2012 .
  7. Web site: Satyam case: CBI reduces number of witnesses. 15 June 2011 . Lakshmi Narayana, deputy inspector general of police, CBI said as per the apex court directives, the number of documents supporting the charge sheet which were about 3,067 have also been reduced to a thousand-odd. Rediff.com . 1 April 2012 .
  8. Web site: Threats against RI atheist teen being investigated . 29 July 2011 . A team of CBI officials, led by joint director V. V. Lakshmi Narayana, has almost completed its investigations into the alleged illegal mining in the controversial Obulapuram mines in collusion with the officials of the state mining and forest departments. India Today . 2 April 2012 .
  9. News: CBI files chargesheet in Emaar Land scam . https://archive.today/20130103134742/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-01/india/31012158_1_cbi-files-chargesheet-cbi-today-senior-ias-officer . dead . 3 January 2013 . 1 February 2012 . CBI today filed its chargesheet against seven persons including Andhra Pradesh home secretary and senior IAS officer B P Acharya and five companies in the case relating to alleged irregularities in land transfer and sale of villas and apartments in an upscale township in Hyderabad . . 22 April 2012 .
  10. Web site: AP cops grilled, IPS officers plan anti-CBI protest . 19 February 2012. The state IPS officials are worried because the Sohrabuddin case has been entrusted with CBI joint director V.V. Lakshminarayana, the chief of the Hyderabad-Karnataka zone . sunday-guardian.com . 31 March 2012 .
  11. Web site: Sohrabuddin case handed over to Lakshmi Narayana . 16 February 2012 . siasat.com . 2 April 2012 .
  12. News: Naidu case: CBI collects documents . 26 November 2011 . CBI Joint Director V.V. Lakshmi Narayana collected from the A.P. High Court on Friday the voluminous documents submitted by Y.S. Vijayamma, MLA, in connection with the petition she filed seeking a probe against former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his associates for various irregularities allegedly committed by them . The Hindu. 1 April 2012 . Chennai, India.
  13. Web site: AP: CBI files FIR against Jagan, Emaar. Rediff.com . 1 April 2012 .
  14. Web site: Ending speculations,ex-cbi JD Lakshmi Narayana joins Pawan Kalyan's Jana Sena. The News Minute. 17 March 2019.
  15. News: Staff Reporter . 2020-01-30 . Lakshminarayana quits Jana Sena . en-IN . The Hindu . 2023-02-06 . 0971-751X.
  16. News: Bureau . The Hindu . 2024-04-26 . CBI ex-Joint Director V.V. Lakshminarayana files nomination from Visakhapatnam North constituency . 2024-04-26 . The Hindu . en-IN . 0971-751X.