Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar (born 15 January 1964) is an Indian journalist turned politician of Telangana. He was elected to the

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from Andhra Pradesh. After

Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh The Telangana movement refers to the movement for the separation of Telangana, from the pre-existing state of Andhra Pradesh in India. The new state corresponds to the Telugu-speaking portions of the former princely state of Hyderabad, which w ...

he is allotted to

Telangana Telangana is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated in the Southern India, south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ele ...

state by draw of lots.

Early life

He was born in

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in the Padmashali community but hails from Kodakandla village in

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. He has a master's degree in

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from

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in 1987.

Career

He worked as a journalist before joining the Congress party in 1994. He worked as a back room manager at Congress party headquarters in AP, Gandhi Bhavan. He was leading the Telangana Congress Monitoring Group for attaining separate statehood for

. He was General Secretary in APCC. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2012. He was handpicked by the ex-Congress party president,

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. In 2019, he joined BJP in the presence of BJP national president Jagat Prakash Nadda and Finance Minister Arun Jaitely. He has resigned from BJP on 22 October 2022 and has joined TRS on October 26, in the presence of party's working president KTR. In 2024, he quit BRS and didn’t join any party.

Personal life

He is married to Saroja and is blessed with a daughter, Priyanka and a son, Adityaram.

References

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