Krishna Prasad Tenneti

Krishna Prasad Tenneti (born 2 March 1960) is an Indian politician, a retired IPS officer and the elected candidate for Lok Sabha from the Bapatla Lok Sabha constituency as a Member of the Parliament of the 18th Lok Sabha and also serves as a member of the panel of chairpersons. He is a member of the Telugu Desam Party.

Early life and education
He was born in 1960 in Hyderabad, his family hails from Razole, East Godavari, and belongs to the Dalit community. His father's name was Late Subbaiah Tenneti and his mother’s name was Vijaya Laxmi Tenneti who were both teachers. He is married to Sirisha Kumari Tenneti, who is an Intellectual Property Attorney advocate and he has two daughters.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal with Mechanical Engineering Stream, and a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad in 1985. He also obtained an LLB degree from Osmania University in 2016 and is pursuing his PhD in Sustainable Urban Mobility.

Career
He is an Indian Police Service officer of 1986 belonging to the Andhra Pradesh cadre until 2014 and the Telangana cadre from 2014 until his retirement. He is on the Board of Governors, at the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur and Director of APPA. He adopted Yerravalli village and donated 42 bicycles to girl children to help them pursue higher education.

He runs an NGO called Krishna Prasad Foundation. Through the Foundation, he also hosted Atma Nirbhar Skill Summit to help promote entrepreneurship and worked to mobilise medical equipment during the COVID with the support of American India Foundation.