Chintakayala Ayyanna Patrudu

Chintakayala Ayyanna Patrudu (born 4 September 1957) is an Indian politician serving as twenty-first and current speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He represents Narsipatnam Assembly constituency in the APLA.

Early life
Patrudu was born in Koppula Velama family at Narsipatnam in the erstwhile Visakhapatnam district. He earned a bachelor's degree in Arts from PR Government College, Kakinada, in 1978.

Rise in the party and political career
He started politics as a member of Telugu Desam Party. Later, he was nominated as the Candidate of TDP for Narsipatnam constituency in Visakhapatnam district. He was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the same constituency, on a Telugu Desam Party ticket for six terms—1983–88, 1994–96, 1999–2009 and 2014. He was also elected as a member of parliament during 1996–98 from Anakapalli constituency. He lost the election from same MLA constituency during 1989–93, 2009 and in 2019. He served as a Cabinet minister in Government of Andhra Pradesh from 2014 -19.

He won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections with a majority of over 20,000 votes and was appointed the Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly by Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu. He is the third speaker in the newly formed Andhra Pradesh State, after Kodela Siva Prasad Rao and Thammineni Seetharam.