Inturi Nageswara Rao

Profile & Insights

• 1Inturi Nageswara Rao of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) secured the Kandukur assembly seat in the 2024 elections, reclaiming the constituency from the YSRCP with a decisive margin of 18,558 votes.
• 2In a high-turnout election where 91.18% of the 226,765 eligible voters participated, Rao polled 109,173 votes against YSRCP’s Madhu Sudhan Rao Burra.
• 3This victory continues a trend of shifting party loyalties in the segment; the YSRCP held the seat in 2019 with a 14,936-vote margin and in 2014 with a narrow 3,806-vote lead.
• 4The 2024 results reflect a notable upward swing for the TDP, nearly quintupling the narrow competitive gap seen a decade prior.
• 5According to his election affidavit, Rao is a 10th-standard graduate with a significant financial profile, declaring assets worth approximately ₹13.33 crore against liabilities of ₹8.72 crore.
• 6His legal disclosure includes 11 pending criminal cases.
• 7As the representative for this General category seat under the Nellore Lok Sabha constituency, Rao’s win marks a strategic consolidation for the TDP in a region that had trended toward the YSRCP in the previous two election cycles.