Chadalawada Krishnamurthy

Chadalawada Krishnamurthy (born 1 May 1948) is an Indian politician and social activist. He was an MLA in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Tirupati assembly constituency.^[2] He was the Chairman of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) Board of Trustees. He belongs to the Balija social community.

Chadalawada Krishna Murthy
Born	(1948-05-01) 1 May 1948 (age 77) Naidupeta
Nationality	Indian
Education	MA PhD
Occupation(s)	Politician, social activist
Notable work	Ex MLA from Tirupati constituency
Political party	TDP (before 18 October 2018) Jana Sena Party (18 October 2018 – present)[1]
Board member of	ex Chairman of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) Board of Trustees
Spouse	Sucharita
Children	Three (one son died)

Early life

Chadalawada Krishnamurthy was born on 1 May 1948 in Chennur village of Nellore district. He was born to Venkata Subbanna and Venkata Ramanamma. His native village is Naidu Peta of Nellore District. He is a Postgraduate with a Doctorate in MA. He is the Chairman of Chadalavada Charitable Trust to serve the needy.

Political career

Krishnamurthy evinced interest in politics in 1973, influenced by Mrs. Indira Gandhi's policies and programmes to serve the people of his nation. He was the youth congress president for Nellore district from 1976 to 1977 under the leadership of Sri Sanjay Gandhi.

He was elected surpanch for Naidupeta Major Gram Panchayat in the 1981 elections. During this tenure, with keen interest in the developmental activities, all the developments have been positioned in that place. The government awarded the best surpanch of the state award in the year 1983 for the development evidenced. He was deeply attached to public service and was then elected as General Secretary for APCC. He applied for a ticket for assembly election from the Tirupati Assembly constituency in the 1994 elections, the main reasons for selecting this place, his native constituency comes under reserved category, Tirupati is well-placed with a key reputation. He has his social service activities of free drinking water supply to people in need, free medical treatment with a permanently established centre, and is also very much attached to his native place. But the high command issued the ticket from Srikalahasti constituency, as an acme follower of the Late Sri Rajiv Gandhi's vision for the nation. He obeyed the orders of high command and contested the elections from the Srikalahasti constituency with a Congress ticket. He lost in the elections by a very narrow margin of 1580 votes.

Krishnamurthy requested a ticket again from Tirupati in the 1999 elections, but the high command again dismayed his request for Tirupati and instructed him to contest from the Srikalahasti constituency. Even though a zealous follower and fervent supporter of Congress party's policies and the hallucination of late Sri Rajiv Gandhi’s to secure the rights of the poor and the underprivileged people of the nation, they preferred to obey the demand of the Tirupati constituency public to contest in the elections. Then he was given a prime magnitude to the public demand and joined the TDP at that point of time and contested the election, 1999 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election and was elected as MLA with a thumping majority of 15000 votes.^[3][4][5] In his tenure, as an MLA in Tirupati, all the developmental activities were evidenced very significantly in the entire constituency. The public is very much satisfied with the way of participation for unprecedented development of this area in a very short span. A blast and its shock when he escaped an attempt on his life as following along with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu planted by the People's War activists triggered a series of nine powerful Claymore mines, which they are suspected to have planted over a period of time on the ghat road leading to the Tirumala hills from Tirupati.^[6]

Political postings

The Andhra Pradesh Government, on 27 April 2015, appointed Chadalavada Krishnamurthy as the Chairman of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) Board of Trustees, a body which administers Tirupati's Lord Venkateswara temple for his dedication, application, and determination towards public services.^[7][8]

Social services

It is his privilege to serve the people of Tirupati, Srikalahasti ,and Naidupet Constituencies' public with social work of rendering the free service to the needy people in Government departments whenever necessary and extending support to the poor people with Medical and Educational facilities. He established one permanent Dental hospital in Tirupathi to serve the people free of cost for their treatment and also distributed pensions for old age people and performed several times mass marriages at his own expense. He has been supplying free drinking water to the BPL people of Tirupathi and the Naidu pet towns for twenty years, with their own infrastructure at their doorsteps.