Vegesana Narendra Varma Raju

Profile & Insights

• 1Vegesana Narendra Varma Raju, representing the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), secured the Bapatla Assembly seat in 2024, marking a significant political shift in the constituency.
• 2His victory ended the decade-long tenure of Kona Raghupathi of the YSRCP, who had previously won the seat in both 2014 and 2019.
• 3The 2024 election saw a robust voter turnout of 85.27%, with Raju polling 90,626 votes to defeat Raghupathi by a substantial margin of 27,768 votes.
• 4This result reflects a sharp upward trend for the TDP in the region; the party’s deficit grew from a narrow 5,813-vote loss in 2014 to a wider 15,199-vote gap in 2019, before Raju successfully orchestrated a decisive swing in 2024.
• 5According to his election affidavit, Raju is a 10th-grade graduate with significant financial standing, reporting assets valued at approximately ₹109.48 crore and liabilities of ₹27.34 crore.
• 6His entry into the assembly comes with a legal background of nine disclosed criminal cases.
• 7Raju’s win is a key gain for the TDP-JSP-BJP alliance, reclaiming a territory that had become a YSRCP stronghold over the last two electoral cycles.