Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu (born 18 December 1987) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 33rd Minister of Civil Aviation since June 2024. He represents the

Srikakulam Lok Sabha constituency Srikakulam Lok Sabha constituency is one of the twenty-five lok sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh in India. It comprises seven assembly segments and belongs to Srikakulam district . Assembly segments The seven Assembly segments of ...

and has been elected in the 16th, 17th, and

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. He first won the seat in the

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and was re-elected in 2019 and 2024 as a candidate of the

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. He serves as the National General Secretary of the TDP and as the party's leader in the

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Early life and education

Naidu was born in Nimmada,

Srikakulam Srikakulam is a city and the headquarters of Srikakulam district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. census, it has a population of 165,735. There are many other places of Buddhist Tourism such as Salihundam, Kalinga Patnam, Dabbaka Vaan ...

. He is the son of

Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu (23 February 1957 – 2 November 2012) was an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He served as the Union Minister in H. D. Deve Gowda and I. K. Gujral Cabinets. Formerly, he was the Legislator of Andhra Pradesh, won ...

, a member of the

, and Kinjarapu Vijayakumari. His father was a

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(MLA) from the Tekkali constituency and subsequently became a Member of Parliament (MP) from

, later serving as a

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for Rural Development in the United Front government between 1996 and 1998. He completed his primary schooling in

and later on joined Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram,

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, after his father became an MP and moved to Delhi. He then earned a bachelor's degree in

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from

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, and an MBA from

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. He worked for a year in Singapore before returning to India. His uncle,

Kinjarapu Atchannaidu Kinjarapu Atchannaidu is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He is serving as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (India), Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing the Tekkali (Assembly constituency), Tekkali constituency ...

, is a senior politician of the TDP and also a minister in the

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Personal life

Naidu married Sravya Bandaru in June 2017, the youngest daughter of the former minister and

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Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He is a member of Telugu Desam Party. He has been elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly A Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected ...

Political career

Naidu entered politics in 2012 after the death of his father. He represents the Srikakulam Parliamentary constituency. Appointed as the constituency in-charge in 2013, he contested the 2014 elections and won by a margin of 127,576 votes. Kinjarupu is the second youngest Member of Parliament in the 16th

. He introduced a private member's bill demanding the establishment of a railway zone in

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with Visakhapatnam as its headquarters. In the

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, he represented TDP and won by a majority of 3,27,901 votes from the

. He is the incumbent Union Minister of Civil Aviation, India.

Performance in Parliament

''Performance in the Lok Sabha, 2019-20''

Parliamentary Committees

He is a member of the standing committee on Railways and Home Affairs, Consultative Committee on Ministry of Tourism and Culture and in the Committee on Welfare of other Backward Classes and Official Language Department in the 16th Lok Sabha.

At the United Nations

Kinjarapu has represented India at the 72nd session of the

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in the 22nd meeting of the first committee on Disarmament. He reiterated India's commitment to upholding the UN Charter's ideals and promoting international peace through multilateral cooperation. Representing India at the United Nations, he emphasized the importance of advancing nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation efforts.

As the Minister for Civil Aviation

On 10 June 2024, Naidu was allocated the Ministry of Civil Aviation. On 12 June 2025 he visited Ahmedabad, Gujarat shortly after the crash of London-bound Air India flight AI171 Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu oath as Cabinet Minister.jpg, President Droupadi Murmu administering the oath as Cabinet Minister to Naidu The Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Shri Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu chairs a meeting on the Exchange of MoUs between Mahindra Aerostructures and Airbus for the manufacturing of H130 helicopter fuselages in India, on April 09 2025.jpg, Naidu chairs a meeting of the Ministry of Civil Aviation

Electoral history

Policy positions

In October 2019, he wrote an article in

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criticizing the Andhra Pradesh government under

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for its sand mining policy. He argued that the ban on sand mining from May to September 2019 disrupted the construction industry and affected the livelihoods of over 2 million laborers.

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