Dadisetti Ramalingeswara Rao

Dadisetti Ramalingeswara Rao, commonly known as Raja, is the current Member of the Legislative Assembly (India) of Tuni in East Godavari District.^[2] He is from the YSR Congress Party.^[3]

Dadisetti Ramalingeswara Rao
Minister of Roads & Buildings[1] Government of Andhra Pradesh
In office 11 April 2022 – 4 June 2024
Governor	Biswabhusan Harichandan S. Abdul Nazeer
Chief Minister	Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
Preceded by	Malagundla Sankaranarayana
Succeeded by	B. C. Janardhan Reddy
Member of Legislative Assembly Andhra Pradesh
In office 2014–2024
Preceded by	Venkata Krishnam Raju Sriraja Vatsavayi
Succeeded by	Yanamala Divya
Constituency	Tuni

Personal life

Dadisetti Ramalingeswara Rao was born on 22 March 1976 to Sri Dadisetti Sankara Rao and Smt Satyanarayanamma in Tuni, Andhra Pradesh. They are traditionally a family of gold merchants. Rao graduated in Tuni. At the age of 32, he decided to enter politics full-time and joined the YSR Congress Party.^[4]

He is married to Smt Lakshmi Chaitanya and has one son and one daughter.

Politics

Ramalingeswara Rao contested MLA elections for the first time in 2014 and won with a majority of 19,500 votes.^[5] He is currently a member of the committee on public accounts in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, Tuni In 2019. Now he is Minister of A.P. cabinet.