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Dadisetti Ramalingeswara Rao
Office Minister of Roads & Buildings[1]
Government of Andhra Pradesh
Office Member of Legislative Assembly
Andhra Pradesh




Term start 11 April 2022
Term end 4 June 2024
Predecessor Malagundla Sankaranarayana
Successor B. C. Janardhan Reddy
Predecessor Venkata Krishnam Raju Sriraja Vatsavayi
Successor Yanamala Divya


Constituency Tuni













Dadisetti Ramalingeswara Rao, commonly known as Raja, is the current Member of the Legislative Assembly (India) of Tuni in East Godavari District.[2] He is from the YSR Congress Party.[3]

Personal life

Dadisetti Ramalingeswara Rao was born on 22 March 1976 to Sri Dadisetti Sankara Rao and Smt Satyanarayanamma in Tuni, Andhra Pradesh. They are traditionally a family of gold merchants. Rao graduated in Tuni. At the age of 32, he decided to enter politics full-time and joined the YSR Congress Party.[4]

He is married to Smt Lakshmi Chaitanya and has one son and one daughter.

Politics

Ramalingeswara Rao contested MLA elections for the first time in 2014 and won with a majority of 19,500 votes.[5] He is currently a member of the committee on public accounts in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, Tuni In 2019. Now he is Minister of A.P. cabinet.

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