Arekapudi Gandhi

Arekapudi Gandhi
Member of Telangana Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 June 2014
Preceded byM. Bikshapathi Yadav
ConstituencySerilingampally
Personal details
NationalityIndia
Political partyIndian National Congress from 2024
Other political
affiliations		Telugu Desam Party till 2016, Bharat Rashtra Samithi from 2016 to 2024
Residence(s)Vivekananda Nagar, Kukatpally[1]
OccupationPolitician

Arekapudi Gandhi (born 12 June 1961) is a member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly from Serilingampally Assembly constituency since the 2014 Legislative Assembly election.[2] He won as a Member of the Legislative Assembly representing Telugu Desam Party in the 2014 Legislative Assembly election and later joined Bharat Rashtra Samithi.[3]

He served as whip in the 2nd Telangana Assembly.[4] He defected to Congress on 13 July 2024[5]and appointed as Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman on 9 September 2024.[6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ https://legislature.telangana.gov.in/getMLAMemberDetails?memid=3199&constid=52&orderby=1&termid=15 [dead link‍]
  2. ^ "SRI AREKAPUDI GANDHI". legislature.telangana.gov.in. Archived from the original on 18 June 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Two More TDP MLAs to Join TRS". The New Indian Express. 9 March 2016. Archived from the original on 18 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Vinay Bhaskar to be chief whip in Telangana Assembly". The New Indian Express. 8 September 2019. Archived from the original on 18 June 2024.
  5. ^ "BRS MLA Arekapudi Gandhi joins Congress in Telangana". Deccan Herald. 13 July 2024. Archived from the original on 13 July 2024.
  6. ^ The Hindu (10 September 2024). "Telangana Assembly Speaker constitutes Financial Committees; Arekapudi Gandhi appointed as chairman of Committee on Public Accounts". Archived from the original on 10 September 2024. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Gandhi Named Chairman of PAC". 9 September 2024. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
  8. ^ The New Indian Express (10 September 2024). "Arekapudi Gandhi, a defector, made Public Accounts Committee chairman". Retrieved 10 September 2024.