Ravela Kishore Babu

Ravela Kishore Babu is an Indian politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. He is former Member of the Legislative Assembly from Prathipadu, Guntur Assembly constituency, elected in the 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. He was a former member of the Telugu Desam Party. He quit TDP in 2018 and joined Jana Sena Party.^[1] In June 2019 he quit JSP in order to join Bharatiya Janata Party.^[2][3] In 2022 he quit BJP citing personal reasons.^[4] In January 2023 he joined BRS.^[5] In 2024 he joined the YSR Congress Party.^[6]

Ravela Kishore Babu
Minister of Tribal Welfare; Social Welfare Government of Andhra Pradesh
In office 8 June 2014 – 1 April 2017
Governor	E. S. L. Narasimhan
Chief Minister	N. Chandrababu Naidu
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Nakka Ananda Babu
Member of Legislative Assembly, Andhra Pradesh
In office 2014–2019
Preceded by	Mekathoti Sucharitha
Succeeded by	Mekathoti Sucharitha
Constituency	Prathipadu
Personal details
Born	Ravela, Andhra Pradesh, India
Political party	YSR Congress Party (since 2024)
Other political affiliations	Telugu Desam Party (until 2018) Jana Sena Party (2018–2019) Bharatiya Janata Party (2019–2022) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (2023–2024)
Spouse	Shanthi Jyothi
Children	2
Occupation	Politician

Babu is a retired IRTS officer.^[7][8]