K. V. Ramana Reddy

Katipally Venkata Ramana Reddy (born 1970) is an Indian politician and member of legislative assembly from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who represents Kamareddy constituency in the Telangana Legislative Assembly. In 2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election he created History as he defeated both the incumbent Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and the then to-be-elected Chief Minister Revanth Reddy. He defeated his nearest rival, KCR, by 6741 votes.

Ramana Reddy was appointed as BJP Legislature Party deputy floor on 14 February 2024.

Personal life
Ramana Reddy is a businessperson. He dropped out of formal education after his Class 12. His father, Katipally Raji Reddy, was a Kamareddy panchayat samiti president.

Career
Reddy worked as a member of Zilla Parishad Territorial Council in the undivided Nizamabad district in 2004 and went on to become ZP chairman. Earlier, he worked in Indian National Congress and Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR), then chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh passed away, he joined TRS, now renamed as BRS. Before the 2018 elections he joined BJP and contested as MLA but finished a distant third. In the recent years, he is credited with taking up local issues. His donations and support in supplying building materials for the construction of temples in the constituency is said to be one of the reasons that helped him gain a voter base. He also spearheaded the agitation to oppose the 'Master Plan' for Kamareddy that was mooted by the then BRS government.

In the 2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election he ran as Bharatiya Janata Party candidate for the Kamareddy seat. He defeated both Bharat Rashtra Samithi's incumbent Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao, and INC stalwart Revanth Reddy who became next Chief Minister. BJP won in Kamareddy for the first-time.

In an affidavit filed to the Election Commission of India, he declared assets amounting to inr 490000000.