N. Raghuveera Reddy
Birth nameRaghuveera Reddy
Birth date12 February 1957 (age 69)
Birth placeAnantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India
Office21st President of the
Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee
1blanknameAICC President
1namedata
Term start11 March 2014
Term end16 January 2020
PredecessorBotsa Satyanarayana (united)
SuccessorSake Sailajanath
Office 1Minister of Revenue, Relief,
Rehabilitation, Disaster Management and ULC
Government of Andhra Pradesh
Term start 125 November 2010
Term end 121 February 2014
Governor 1E. S. L. Narasimhan
1blankname 1Chief Minister
1namedata 1Kiran Kumar Reddy
Predecessor 1Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
Successor 1Office Dissolved
Office 2Minister of Agriculture
Government of Andhra Pradesh
Term start 225 May 2009
Term end 224 November 2010
Governor 2
1blankname 2Chief Minister
1namedata 2
Predecessor 2Himself
Successor 2Kanna Lakshminarayana
Office 3Minister of Agriculture, Horticulture, Sericulture, RSAD and Agriculture Technology Mission
Government of Andhra Pradesh
Term start 314 May 2004
Term end 320 May 2009
Governor 3
1blankname 3Chief Minister
1namedata 3Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy
Predecessor 4Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao
Successor 4Ramreddy Venkat Reddy
Office 5Member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Term start 516 May 2009
Term end 516 May 2014
Predecessor 5B C Govindappa
Successor 5Hanumantaraya Chowdary
Constituency 5Kalyandurg
Term start 66 October 1999
Term end 616 May 2009
Predecessor 6Y. T. Prabhakara Reddy
Successor 6K. Sudhakar
Constituency 6Madakasira
Term start 729 November 1989
Term end 711 December 1994
Predecessor 7H. B. Narase Gowd
Successor 7Y. T. Prabhakara Reddy
Constituency 7Madakasira
PartyIndian National Congress

Neelakantapuram Raghuveera Reddy (born 12 February 1957) is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. He was appointed President for bifurcated Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee in March, 2014.

Early life

Raghuveera Reddy was born on 12 February 1957 in Anantapur district to N. Kaveerappa in a Telugu-speaking Yadav family, who have the surnames of Reddy.[1] He did his B.Sc. and Bachelors in Law from SK University. Kannada film director Prashanth Neel is his first cousin.[2]

Career

Raghuveera Reddy Yadav, is a three times M.L.A. from Madakasira Assembly Constituency. He has been changed to Kalyandurg Constituency during 2009 elections after the reorganisation of constituencies. Raghuveera Reddy contested and won from Kalyandurg Assembly Constituency in 2009 elections.

He served as a Minister for Agriculture in Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s cabinet and continued with the same in Konijeti Rosaiah’s government as well. In Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy's government he had crucial portfolio of Revenue Minister in the reorganisation of cabinet.[3]

President, APCC

He was elected as the Congress Committee President for the residual Andhra Pradesh (post bifurcation into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) on 11 March 2014.

Personal life

Reddy is married to Sunitha and has a daughter and a son.

Positions held

  • President for Students Union, S.K. University, Anantapur
  • Chairman, Neelakantapuram Group of Temples
  • Chairman, Kallur Subbarao Trust
  • Minister for Agriculture, Government of Andhra Pradesh in 2004, 2009 cabinets.
  • Minister for Revenue Minister, Government of Andhra Pradesh in the recent reformation of cabinet
  • APPCC President 2014-2019

References

  1. ^ "Here, SCS can't step into Yadav-dominated villages - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived 16 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Prashanth Neel : మాజీ మంత్రి ర‌ఘువీరారెడ్డి బంధువే ప్ర‌శాంత్ నీల్.. వ‌రుస‌కు ఏమ‌వుతాడో తెలుసా". Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  3. ^ "Raghuveera flays Naidu remarks on Manmohan". Deccan Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11.