Malla Vijaya Prasad

Malla Vijaya Prasad is an Indian politician, educationalist, film producer, former MLA and businessman. He previously served as Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Education Welfare and Infrastructure Development Corporation.

Malla Vijaya Prasad
Member of the Legislative Assembly
In office 2009-14
Constituency	Visakhapatnam West Assembly constituency
Personal details
Born	1966,57 years Visakhapatnam
Political party	YSR Congress Party
Other political affiliations	Indian National Congress
Spouse	Aruna Kumari
Children	Anusha, Alekhya
Education	Bachelor of Arts
Occupation	Businessman, entrepreneur and politician

Early life

Malla Vijaya Prasad was born in 1966 at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. He completed his B.A. at Berhampur University in Odisha, and graduated in 1998.^[1]

Career

Prasad began by working in the transport business. Later, he worked in real estate and started a welfare group. He later started an engineering college and a degree college.^{[citation needed]}

He produced films in Telugu. He established Vijaya Prasad Welfare Charitable Trust. He undertook social activities including education for the poor, and health camps.^[2]

Politics

He entered into politics for the Congress Party. He contested the Visakhapatnam West Assembly constituency and defeated P.G.V.R. Naidu. He joined YSR congress in 2014.^[3] He later contested in the same constituency in 2019 and lost to P.G.V.R. Naidu.^{[citation needed]}

On 17th July, 2021, He was appointed as Education Welfare and Infrastructure Development (EDID) board chairman by the Ruling party.^[4]

On 28th September, 2024, he was announced as new YSRCP co-ordinator for Visakhapatnam West Assembly constituency.

Film

He produced several films(ordered by release year):

• Siddu from Sikakulam
• Seeta Ramula Kalyanam Lankalo^[5]
• Seema Tapakai
• Friends Book
• Ramachari
• Inkenti Nuvve Cheppu^[6]