Baggu Ramanamurthy

Profile & Insights

• 1Baggu Ramanamurthy of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) reclaimed the Narasannapeta assembly seat in the 2024 elections, marking a significant shift in the constituency’s political momentum.
• 2Securing 99,951 votes, Ramanamurthy defeated the YSRCP incumbent Dharmana Krishnadas by a substantial margin of 29,371 votes.
• 3This result reflects a sharp reversal from 2019, when Krishnadas won by 19,025 votes, and a decisive expansion of Ramanamurthy’s previous 2014 victory margin of just 4,800 votes.
• 4The high voter engagement is evidenced by an 81.52% turnout, with nearly 180,000 constituents casting their ballots.
• 5According to his legislative affidavit, Ramanamurthy is a 10th-pass graduate with a clean legal record, reporting zero criminal cases.
• 6His financial profile shows total assets valued at approximately ₹5.30 crore against liabilities of roughly ₹63.26 lakh.
• 7This 2024 victory confirms the seat's swing nature, as the two rivals have traded the representation of this Srikakulam district constituency over the last three election cycles, with the TDP now holding a dominant position in both vote share and margin.