Danam Nagender (born 9 August 1964) is an Indian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly from Khairatabad Assembly Constituency, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. He left (BRS) Telangana Rashtra Samithi and joined Indian National Congress party in March, 2024. He was the Senior Leader of Congress Party in Hyderabad. He was also Minister for Labour, Employment, Training & Factories, Industrial Training Institutes & Health in United Andhra Pradesh. He had represented the
Indian National Congress
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party. Nagender won his seat in the
2009 Andhra Pradesh State Assembly Elections
The 2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election took place in April 2009, concurrently with the 2009 Indian general election. The elections were held in the state in the first phase on 16 April 2009 and the second phase on 23 April 2009. ...
. He lost it in the 2014 assembly elections. He resigned from Congress party on 23 June 2018, joined
Telangana Rashtra Samithi
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and won from Khairatabad in general election Dec. 2018. He joined Congress party in 2024.
Career
D. Nagender was elected from Asifnagar assembly constituency in 1994, 1999 and 2004 as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. In the 2004 Andhra Pradesh state Assembly elections, he left the Indian National Congress (INC) for the
Telugu Desam Party
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(TDP). After winning from Asifnagar on the TDP ticket, he resigned his seat and left the TDP in an effort to get a place in the cabinet of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy through re-election as an INC MLA. He failed in the by-election. In an interview to the Press
ABN Andhra Jyothi
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he said that he is a great follower of P. Janardhan Reddy, he and his wife worship him every day and he admires him a lot.
After
delimitation of constituencies
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Nagender was inducted into the cabinet for the first time by YSR in 2009 and held the portfolio of Health and Medical Services, Labour, Employment, Training & Factories, and Industrial Training Institutes continued in the same portfolio in the cabinet of
Konijeti Rosaiah
Konijeti Rosaiah (4 July 1933 – 4 December 2021) was an Indian politician who served as the 15th chief minister of Andhra Pradesh from 2009 to 2010. He also served as the Governor of Tamil Nadu from 2011 to 2016 and the Governor of Karnatak ...
. Nagender lost in the 2014 elections to BJP candidate Chintala Ramachandra Reddy and later joined BRS party in 2018 and won as MLA in 2018 and 2023.
Danam Nagender left Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) on 17 March 2024 and joined the Congress party in the presence of AICC in-charge for Telangana Deepadas Munsi and Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy in Hyderabad ahead of 2024 Loksabha Elections.