Puvvada Ajay Kumar

Puvvada Ajay Kumar is an Indian Politician, who is the former Transport Minister of Telangana from 2019 to 2023. He is also the chairman of Mamata Academy of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, and Mamata Medical, Nursing and Dental colleges in Khammam. He was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly from Khammam constituency.^[2] Later, he joined in Telangana Rastra Samiti.^[3]

Puvvada Ajay Kumar [phone]
Minister of Transport Government of Telangana
In office 08 September 2019 – 03 December 2023
Chief Minister	K. Chandrasekhar Rao
Preceded by	P. Mahender Reddy
Succeeded by	Ponnam Prabhakar
Member of Telangana Legislative assembly
In office 2014–2023
Preceded by	Thummala Nageswara Rao
Succeeded by	Thummala Nageshwar Rao
Constituency	Khammam
Personal details
Born	(1965-04-19) 19 April 1965 (age 60)[1]
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
Occupation	Politician
Profession	M.Sc. (Agriculture from Bangalore)

Career

Initially, his political career started as Central Executive Council member of the YSR Congress Party.^[4] Later, he contested as Member of Legislative Assembly from Indian National Congress party^[5] and elected to Legislative Assembly of Telangana in General Elections 2014.^[2] Finally in 2016, he quit Indian National Congress Party and joined in Telangana Rastra Samithi.^[3] In 2019 he was appointed as the Minister of Transport of Telangana.