Dr. Manda Jagannath ( te, మంద జగన్నాథ్; born 22 May 1951) is an Indian politician, was a member of the 11th, 13th, 14th & 15th

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-pas ...

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representing Nagarkurnool constituency. He belongs to

Telangana Rashtra Samithi Bharat Rashtra Samithi ( ; BRS), formerly known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi ( TRS), is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in the state of Telangana. It was founded on 27 April 2001 as by K. Chandrashekar Rao, with a sing ...

party.

Early life

Manda Jagannadham was born in

Mahbubnagar district Mahabubnagar district is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. Mahabubnagar is the district headquarters which is popularly known as Palamoor. The district shares boundaries with Narayanapet, Vikarabad, Rangareddy, Nagarkurnool, Wan ...

Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh-largest state and the twelfth-most populated state in India with a geographical area of and ...

. He holds a bachelor's degree in medicine. He did his MBBS from

Osmania University Osmania University is a collegiate public state university located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Mir Osman Ali Khan, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad in 1918 , He released a farman to establish OSMANIA UNIVERSITY on the day of 28 August 1918. ...

Career

After graduating with a medicine degree he worked as a doctor in Mahbubnagar and Hyderabad.

Political career

He was one among the 5 members representing

Telugu Desam Party The Telugu Desam Party (; TDP) is an Indian regional political party operating in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana at the state and central level. Since its founding by N. T. Rama Rao (often referred to as NTR) on 29 March 1982, the party has f ...

, and a member of the party's Polit Bureau, its decision-making body . He was expelled from Telugu Desam for taking bribe from Congress and voted against

. He was expelled & disqualified from Lok Sabha by speaker Somnath Chatterjee for voting against party's WHIP. He represents the

Nagarkurnool Nagarkurnool is a town in Nagarkurnool district of the Indian state of Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh-largest ...

constituency of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to t ...

. He switched to the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...

party during the No Confidence Motion. He was reelected in 2009. On 29 December 2008 Mr Jagannath appointed as Andhra Pradesh govt's special representative in New Delhi.

TRS Party

He joined in TRS party at the peak of Telangana agitation.

References

External links

Palamoor NRI Forum
PALAMOOR NRI FORUM
Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
Manda Jagannath was in news, for slapping AP Grameena Vikas Bank manager in Mahabubnagar district on 2 July 2009.

People from Telangana Telangana politicians India MPs 1996–1997 India MPs 1999–2004 India MPs 2004–2009 Telugu politicians India MPs 2009–2014 1951 births Living people Telugu Desam Party politicians Indian National Congress politicians Telangana Rashtra Samithi politicians Lok Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh People from Nagarkurnool district Osmania University alumni Indian National Congress politicians from Andhra Pradesh {{AndhraPradesh-INC-politician-stub