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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mr.Kona Raghupathi
| caption =
| birth_date =
| birth_place =
| death_date =
| death_place =
| office1 = [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly|Deputy Speaker]]<br>[[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start1 = 18 June 2019
| predecessor1 = [[Mandali Buddha Prasad]], [[Telugu Desam Party|TDP]]
| office2 =[[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]<br>[[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
| constituency2 = [[Bapatla]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]
| term_start2 = 2014
| term_end2 =
| parents = [[Kona Prabhakar Rao]]
|spouse = Ramadevi
| children = [[Neeraja Kona]] , Nikhil
| party = [[YSR Congress Party]]
}}

'''Kona Raghupathi''' is an Indian politician from [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]]. He represents the [[Bapatla]] constituency in the [[Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh]].<ref>[https://nocorruption.in/politician/kona-raghupathi/ Kona Ragupathi Politician]</ref>

He was elected to serve as the [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]] for [[Bapatla]] Assembly constituency in [[Andhra Pradesh]], India, in 2014. He represents the [[YSR Congress Party]].<ref>[http://www.elections.in/andhra-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/bapatla.html Bapatla (Andhra Pradesh) Assembly Constituency Elections]</ref>

==Early life==
Kona Raghupathi was born to [[Kona Prabhakar Rao]], who was the former governor for [[Maharashtra]] and [[Sikkim]] states.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/Bapatla-an-interesting-contest-on-the-cards/article16616247.ece|title=Bapatla: an interesting contest on the cards|work=The Hindu|access-date=18 November 2016|author=Samuel Jonathan}}</ref>

==Political career==

In 2014, he contested from [[Bapatla (Assembly constituency)]] on behalf of Ysr Congress Party and emerged victorious over Annam Satish Prabhakar of [[Telugu Desam Party]] in the [[2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]].<ref>{{cite web|title=MLA|url=http://www.ap.gov.in/government/mla/|publisher=AP State Portal|access-date=13 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008071101/http://www.ap.gov.in/government/mla/|archive-date=8 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=mla>{{cite web|title=Repalle Assembly 2014 Election Results|url=http://www.elections.in/andhra-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/repalle.html|publisher=Elections.in|access-date=11 October 2014}}</ref> In 2019, he won as the Member of Legislative Assembly from Bapatla constituency from Andhra Pradesh.He is the deputy speaker of the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly.<ref name="Kona Raghupathi elected Assembly Deputy Speaker">{{cite news |last1=The Hindu |first1= |title=Kona Raghupathi elected Assembly Deputy Speaker |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/kona-raghupathi-elected-assembly-deputy-speaker/article28067547.ece |access-date=2 December 2021 |date=18 June 2019 |archive-date=2 December 2021 |language=en-IN}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Assembly constituencies of Andhra Pradesh}}

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->Batthini Vinay Kumar Goud at 05:11, 2 December 2021