Vanamadi Venkateswara Rao

Profile & Insights

• 1Vanamadi Venkateswara Rao, representing the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), secured the Kakinada City seat in the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections with a commanding performance.
• 2He polled 113,014 votes, defeating the YSRCP incumbent Dwarampudi Chandrasekhara Reddy by a significant margin of 56,572 votes.
• 3This victory marks a major swing in a long-standing rivalry between the two candidates; while Rao won by 24,000 votes in 2014, he lost the seat to Reddy in 2019 by 14,111 votes.
• 4The 2024 election saw a robust voter turnout of 74.92%, with Rao nearly doubling the runner-up's tally.
• 5According to his legislative affidavit, Rao completed his 10th-grade education and manages a substantial financial profile with assets valued at approximately ₹17.45 crore and liabilities totaling roughly ₹6.31 crore.
• 6His legal profile includes 13 declared criminal cases.
• 7Rao’s return to the assembly reflects a decisive shift in the Kakinada City constituency, reclaiming for the TDP a seat that has fluctuated between the two major parties over the last three electoral cycles.