Thursday, August 28, 2014

Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao

Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao (Telugu : కల్వకుంట్ల తారక రామారావు ) (born 24 July 1976) is an Indian politician and present Member of Legislative Assembly for Siricilla Assembly Constituency, representing the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.He won state Assembly Elections 2009, 2014 for TRS party in Siricilla Constituency.Currently he is serving as the Cabinet Minister for Panchayat Raj & IT, Telangana State.

Early life

K. T. Rama Rao was born in Siddipet and he is the son of K. Chandrashekhar Rao founder of Telangana Rashtra Samithi. He has completed his schooling from St. George's Grammar school, Hyderabad. He has a Bachelors Degree in Microbiology from Nizam college. KTR has two post-graduate degrees, one is M.Sc in Biotechnology from University of Pune and the other is MBA in Marketing & E-commerce from Baruch College-City University of New York.Later he worked as Regional Sales Director at INTTRA from 2001 to 2006.He has a younger sister K. Kavitha who is a political activist and honourable member of parliament from Nizambad constituency.

Political Career

Ever since he moved to India, KTR started taking interest in party affairs and played an active role. He joined the TRS party full-time in the year 2006. After joining the party he has actively participated in numerous programs to ensure that the Telangana issue was represented well at the national level.He actively participated in the Telangana movement from 2009 to 2014. In the 2014 election, he was elected to the Telangana State assembly from Sircilla constituency inTelangana. He has been inducted
into the Telangana Cabinet as the minister for IT and Panchayati Raj affairs.

Personal life

He is married to Shailima and has two children Himanshu and Alekhya.





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