Bakkani Narasimhulu is an Indian politician belonging to the state of Telangana. He was the president of the Telangana unit of the Telugu Desam Party (abbreviated TDP) from 2021 to 2022 and a senior TDP leader from Mahabubnagar district.[1]

Bakkani Narasimhulu
Narasimhulu in 2022 at Mahanaadu
2nd President of Telugu Desam Party
Telangana unit
In office
19 July 2021 – 10 November 2022
National PresidentN. Chandrababu Naidu
Preceded byL. Ramana
Succeeded byKasani Gnaneshwar Mudiraj
Member of Legislative Assembly
United Andhra Pradesh
In office
1994–1999
Chief MinisterN. T. Rama Rao
N. Chandrababu Naidu
Preceded byP. Shankar Rao
Succeeded byP. Shankar Rao
ConstituencyShadnagar
Personal details
NationalityIndian
Political partyTelugu Desam Party
OccupationPolitician

Political career

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Bakkani Narasimhulu started his political career in 1983 as an ordinary political activist in the Telugu Desam Party. He worked in various capacities in the joint Mahabubnagar district-TDP unit. Narasimhulu contested the 1994 Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections as a Telugu Desam Party candidate from Shadnagar constituency and won against his nearest rival Congress Party candidate P. Shankar Rao with a majority of 45822 votes and entered the assembly for the first time as an MLA.[2]

In 1999 he refrained from contesting in the legislative assembly election of Andhra Prdesh as this seat was allotted to Bharatiya Janata Party(abbreviated BJP) as a part of TDP & BJP alliance in the respective elections.[3] Later in 2004 he contested in the legislative assembly election of Andhra Pradesh from Shadnagar Assembly constituency as a TDP candidate and lost to his nearest rival Congress Party candidate P. Shankara Rao by a margin of 10632 votes.[4][5]

Later, he was in-charge of Shadnagar Constituency of Telugu Desam Party, TDP State Secretary, Executive Secretary, SC Cell State President, TTD Governing Body Member, TDP Election Committee Member, Disciplinary Committee Member[citation needed] and Joint Mahabubnagar District TDP President until it got divided into Jogulamba Gadwal district, Wanaparthy district, Nagarkurnool district, and itself as Mahabubnagar district. He worked as a member of the national executive committee and as the national general secretary of TDP. Bakkani Narasimhu contested the 2014 parliamentary elections as a TDP candidate from the Nagarkurnool Lok Sabha constituency and was defeated.[6]

Narsimhulu was appointed as Telangana Telugu Desam Party State President on 19 July 2021.[7]

Personal life

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Bakkani Narasimhulu was born in Lingareddy Guda village, Farooqnagar Mandal, Rangareddy District, Telangana state. He completed his tenth standard in 1970 from Zilla Parishad High School, Farooqnagar [citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ Jul 20, Sribala Vadlapatla / TNN / Updated. "Telangana: Ex-MLA Bakkani Narasimhulu is new TTDP chief | Hyderabad News - Times of India". The Times of India.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Shadnagar Assembly Constituency Details". Archived from the original on 3 September 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  3. ^ "A triumph of alliance arithmetic". frontline.thehindu.com. 5 November 1999.
  4. ^ "Naidu likely to appoint Bakkani Narasimhulu as next TTDP chief!". Telugu360.com. 17 July 2021.
  5. ^ "IndiaVotes AC: Shadnagar 2004". IndiaVotes.
  6. ^ "Lok Sabha election results 2014: Andhra Pradesh". The Indian Express. 17 May 2014.
  7. ^ Chronicle, Deccan (19 July 2021). "Bakkani Narasimhulu appointed president of Telangana TDP". Deccan Chronicle.