S Madhsudhana Chary | |
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Assumed office 2014 |
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Constituency | Bhupalpalle, Telangana |
First Speaker of Telangana Legislative Assembly | |
Assumed office June 9, 2014 |
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Personal details | |
Born | 1962 (age 54–55) Warangal, Telangana, India |
Political party | Telangana Rashtra Samithi |
Residence | Hyderabad |
Alma mater | Kakatiya University, MA English (Literature) |
Sirikonda Madhusudhan Chary (born 1962) is an Indian politician and legislator. He is the First speaker of Telangana Legislative Assembly and has the distinction of the becoming the first Speaker of the newly created Telangana state. He won from Bhupalapalli constituency in Warangal in 2014 general elections. He belongs to Telangana Rashtra Samithi and is a member of its Politburo.
He was born in Narsakkapalli village, Parkal, Warangal, Telangana to Venkatanarasaiah. He has an M.A. in English Literature from Kakatiya University, Warangal.
He joined Telugu Desam in 1982 and was an MLA for Telugu Desam in 1994-99 from Shyampet in Warangal district and joined Lakshmi Parvathi's NTR-TDP in 1996 after the crisis. During this term when cotton farmers were committing suicides across Telangana region, he brought a bottle of pesticide to the Legisltive Assembly in order to bring to the notice of the highest house in the state. One of the biggest influences in taking the movement of Telangana forward was when Hanmakonda legislator, Dasyam Vinay Bhaskar was forbidden to use the word Telangana on the floor of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 2000, when Telugu Desam was in power.
He started working with K. Chandrashekar Rao 10–12 months before the TRS party was formally launched in April, 2001. He lent a great support to the Telangana statehood movement by providing intellectual support. He was a founding member and was made General Secretary in October 2001. He was politburo member and General Secretary. He also worked as a TRS party spokesperson and also very close to Prof. Jayashankar.
He won as an MLA in 2014 General elections from Bhupalapalle defeating former Chief Whip, Gandra Venkataramana Reddy. He lost the election from the same constituency in 2009.
He became the first Speaker of Telangana Assembly. He was elected unanimously on 9 June 2014.
He is married to Uma Devi. He has three sons, Pradeep, Prashanth and kranthi .