S. Madhusudhana Chary

Sirikonda Madusudhana Chary (born 1962) is an Indian politician and legislator who was the first Speaker of Telangana Legislative Assembly from 2014 to 2019. He won from Bhupalapalli constituency in Warangal in 2014 general elections.[1] He is the former MLA of Bhupalapalli Constuency from 2018 Assembly Elections. He belongs to Telangana Rashtra Samithi and is a member of its Politburo. He lost the Telangana Legislative Assembly election held in December 2018.

Sirikonda Madhsudana Chary
First Speaker of Telangana Legislative Assembly
In office
9 June 2014 – 6 September 2018
Succeeded byPocharam Srinivas Reddy, TRS
ConstituencyBhupalpalle, Telangana
Personal details
Born (1956-10-13) 13 October 1956
Warangal, Telangana, India
Political partyTelangana Rashtra Samithi
ResidenceHyderabad
Alma materKakatiya University, MA English (Literature)

Early life

He was born in Narsakkapalli village, Parkal, Warangal, Telangana to Venkatanarasaiah. He has an M.A. in English Literature from Kakatiya University, Warangal.

Career

He joined Telugu Desam in 1982 and was an MLA for Telugu Desam in 1994-99 from Shyampet in Warangal district and joined Lakshmi Parvathi's NTR-TDP in 1996 after the crisis. During this term when cotton farmers were committing suicides across Telangana region, he brought a bottle of pesticide to the Legislative Assembly in order to bring to the notice of the highest house in the state. One of the biggest influences in taking the movement of Telangana forward was when Hanmakonda legislator, Dasyam Vinay Bhaskar was forbidden to use the word Telangana on the floor of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 2000 when Telugu Desam was in power.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi

He started working with K. Chandrashekar Rao 10–12 months before the TRS party was formally launched in April 2001. He lent a great support to the Telangana statehood movement by providing intellectual support. He was a founding member and was made General Secretary in October 2001.[2] He was politburo member and General Secretary. He also worked as a TRS party spokesperson and also very close to Prof. Jayashankar.

He won as an MLA in 2014 General elections from Bhupalapalle defeating former Chief Whip, Gandra Venkataramana Reddy.[3][4] He lost the election from the same constituency in 2009. He lost in 2018 elections from the same constituency.

Speaker of Telangana Legislative Assembly

He became the first Speaker of Telangana Assembly. He was elected unanimously on 9 June 2014.

Personal life

He married to Uma Devi. He has three sons, Pradeep, Prashanth and Kranth.

References
  1. Rao, Gollapudi Srinivasa (30 May 2014). "TRS legislators intensify lobbying for Cabinet berths". The Hindu. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  2. The Hindu: TRS office-bearers
  3. Prestige issue for TRS, Congress - The Hindu
  4. Konda Couple to Join TRS, Ticket Only for Surekha - The New Indian Express

 

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