Vanama Venkateswara Rao

Vanama Venkateswara Rao is a politician from Telangana state and a member of the Legislative Assembly constituency of Kothagudem.^[1]

Vanama Venkateswara Rao వనమా వెంకటేశ్వరరావు
Member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly
In office 2018–2023
Preceded by	Jalagam Venkat Rao
Succeeded by	Kunamneni Sambasiva Rao
Constituency	Kothagudem
Personal details
Born	(1944-11-01) 1 November 1944 (age 80) Palvancha
Political party	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
Children	Raghavendra Rao, Ramakrishna
Residence	Palvancha

Political career

Venkateswara Rao was elected as a MLA from Kothagudem for the first time in 1989. He later represented the constituency in 1999 and 2004, besides serving as a minister in the cabinet of former Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy in 2008.^[2] In the Telangana general elections of 2018, he contested on an Indian National Congress party ticket and won with a majority of 4120 votes over the nearest Telangana Rashtra Samithi party candidate Jalagam Venkat Rao.^[3] He resigned from the Congress Party after the 2018 elections and joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi party.^[4]