Dharmana Prasada Rao


Dharmana Prasada Rao is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He is a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Srikakulam. He is the Minister for Roads and Buildings and a Former Revenue minister of State of AP.

Career

Dharmana Prasada Rao is a senior politician and State leader of the YSR Congress Party from Srikakulam District. Dharmana Prasada Rao won 5 terms as an MLA from Srikakulam Assembly Constituency, including the 2019 election. He attract everybody with his speeches in the assembly & public meetings including the opposition party leaders. He is having the followers in all the constituencies of Srikakulum district. He announced all the assembly candidature names of YSR party for all the constituencies of the state in 2019 elections.
He was served as Textiles, Sports & Water Resource Minister in the cabinet of Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy and Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy. He was served as revenue Minister in the cabinet of Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy & He was served as Roads & Buildings Minister n the cabinet of N Kiran Kumar Reddy. He reached his current role from the position of Village Sarpanch.
He left INC and joined YSRCP on 9 Feb 2014. He lost the 2014 assembly elections to Gunda Lakshmi Devi of TDP.

Corruption allegations

The Central Bureau of Investigation alleged that Vanpic got huge concessions from the revenue department in the form of GOs when Mr Prasada Rao was the minister. The revenue department allegedly facilitated Mr Prasada Rao to illegally acquire lands in favour of Vanpic under the guise of development of the backward region. Mr Prasad Rao had been questioned by the CBI twice earlier. He is the accused 5 in VANPIC Scam.

Positions held

Public Offices held:
Constituency and Party: Srikakulam, Congress Party