Bhupathiraju Vijayakumar Raju

Bhupathiraju Vijayakumar Raju (born 17 September 1936) was a politician and industrialist. He was also the founder of Delta Paper Mills established in 1975, situated at Vendra Village, West Godavari Dist., Andhra Pradesh.

Bhupathiraju Vijayakumar Raju
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 1984–1994
Preceded by	Alluri Subhash Chandra Bose
Succeeded by	Kothapalli Subbarayudu
Constituency	Narasapur
Member of Legislative Assembly Andhra Pradesh
In office 1967–1977
Preceded by	Nachu Venkata Ramayya
Succeeded by	Kalidindi Vijay Kumar Raju
Constituency	Bhimavaram
Personal details
Born	(1936-09-17)17 September 1936 West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh
Died	20 November 1994(1994-11-20) (aged 58)
Political party	Telugu Desam Party
Spouse	Kantha Kamala Kasturi (m. 1954)
Parent	Subba Tata Raju (father)
Residence(s)	Sree Rama Puram, Bhimavaram
As of Apr, 2014

Political career

Vijayakumar Raju was a member of Bhimavaram Assembly Constituency in 1967–72 as Independent and 1972–77 from Congress Party.

He was member of the 8th Lok Sabha, 9th Lok Sabha and 10th Lok Sabha of India. He was elected to Lok Sabha consecutively 3 times. He represents the Narasapur Lok Sabha Constituency of Andhra Pradesh and is a member of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP).^[1]

Bhupatiraju Vijaya Kumar Raju and other TD MPs defied the party whip and voted for P.V.Narasimha Rao to save the minority Congress government in 1992 for a good reason and in the process invited the wrath of N.T.Rama Rao.^[2][3]