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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Chanti Kranthi Kiran
| image = Ch Kranthi Kiran.jpg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1976|12|6}}
| birth_place = Pothulaboguda Village, Watpalle Mandal, [[Medak district|Medak]], [[Telangana]], India
| office = [[Telangana Legislative Assembly|Member of Telangana Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start = 2018
| term_end = 2023 December 23
| predecessor = [[Babu Mohan]]
| successor = [[Damodar Raja Narasimha]]
| constituency = [[Andole Assembly constituency|Andole]]
| parents = Bhoomaiah & Komuramma
| party = [[Bharat Rashtra Samithi]]
| spouse = Padmavathi
| children = 1
| website =
| footnotes =
| profession = Journalist & Politician
}}
'''Chanti Kranthi Kiran''' is an Journalist and Indian politician from [[Telangana]]. He was elected as member of the [[Telangana Legislative Assembly]] from [[Andole Assembly constituency]] in [[Medak district]] in [[2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election|2018 Telangana Assembly elections]].<ref name="All journalists will get housing sites, promises MLA Kranthi Kiran {{!}} All journalists will get housing sites, promises MLA Kranthi Kiran">{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title=All journalists will get housing sites, promises MLA Kranthi Kiran {{!}} All journalists will get housing sites, promises MLA Kranthi Kiran |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other-news/051122/kcr-gives-importance-to-journalists-kranthi-kiran.html |access-date=29 June 2025 |work= |publisher=Deccan Chronicle |date=5 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250629162424/https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other-news/051122/kcr-gives-importance-to-journalists-kranthi-kiran.html |archive-date=29 June 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

==Political career==
Kranthi Kiran began his political career by contesting [[2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]s as an independent candidate from [[Andole Assembly constituency|Andole]] and lost, later he joined [[Bharat Rashtra Samithi]], formerly known as [[Telangana Rashtra Samithi]] and was elected as ZPTC from Ramachandrapuram. He actively participated in the agitation of a separate State for Telangana under the banner Telangana Journalists Forum.

After the formation of Telangana in [[2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election]] he contested from [[Andole Assembly constituency|Andole]] as TRS Candidate<ref name="TRS bound to win, says candidate">{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title=TRS bound to win, says candidate |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/trs-bound-to-win-says-candidate/article25017082.ece |access-date=29 June 2025 |publisher=The Hindu |date=22 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250629162130/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/trs-bound-to-win-says-candidate/article25017082.ece |archive-date=29 June 2025 |language=en-IN}}</ref> and won by a margin of 16,465 votes, defeating [[Indian National Congress]] candidate [[Damodar Raja Narasimha]].<ref name="Andole Constituency Election Results 2018 - 2023">{{cite news |title=Andole Constituency Election Results 2018 - 2023 |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/elections/assembly-elections/telangana/constituency-show/andole |access-date=29 June 2025 |work= |publisher=The Times of India |date=3 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250629154714/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/elections/assembly-elections/telangana/constituency-show/andole |archive-date=29 June 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

Kranthi Kiran contested the [[2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election]] from [[Andole Assembly constituency|Andole]] as BRS Candidate and lost to [[Indian National Congress]] candidate [[Damodar Raja Narasimha]] by a margin of 28,193 votes.<ref name="Telangana Assembly Election Results 2023: Andole">{{cite news |title=Telangana Assembly Election Results 2023: Andole |url=https://results.eci.gov.in/AcResultGenDecNew2023/candidateswise-S2936.htm |access-date=29 June 2025 |publisher=Election Commission of India |date=3 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250629154722/https://results.eci.gov.in/AcResultGenDecNew2023/candidateswise-S2936.htm |archive-date=29 June 2025}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Telangana]]
[[Category:1976 births]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian politicians]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Telangana MLAs 2018–2023]]
[[Category:Bharat Rashtra Samithi politicians]]

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