Alla Ramakrishna Reddy
Alla Ramakrishna Reddy, commonly known by his initials RK, is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He is former Member of Legislative Assembly, he represented Mangalagiri Assembly constituency as a Member of the [Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of Legislative Assembly] in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative assembly from 2014 to 11 December 2023.
Political career
Ramakrishna Reddy was a politician from YSR Congress Party. He contested in 2014 [Andhra Pradesh Legislative election|2014] and 2019 [Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2019] elections for Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Mangalagiri constituency and has won both the elections. In 2014 elections, he won the election against Ganji Chiranjeevi with a meagre majority of 12 votes. In 2019 elections, he won against then-chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu's son Nara Lokesh of Telugu Desam Party with a slender majority of 5,337 votes.He has also served as the Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority from June 2019 until its reorganisation to form Amaravati Metropolitan Region Development Authority on 1 August 2020.
On 11 December 2023, he resigned as MLA of Mangalagiri assembly constituency and left the YSRCP for personal reasons and joined Indian National Congress in the presence of Y. S. Sharmila on 21 January 2024.
Alla Ramakrishna Reddy has rejoined the YSRCP in the presence of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on 20 February 2024.