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Konathala Ramakrishna

Konathala Ramakrishna is a former minister and presently convenor of Utharandhra Charchavedika.Mr. Ramakrishna, a close confidant of the late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and served as a minister in the cabinet of YS Rajasekhar Reddy.He held major portfolios such as Minister for commercial taxes, law and excise. He was elected to Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly for the first term in 2004 and served in the YSR cabinet. He represented Anakapalli Constituency of Visakhapatnam district.Mr. Ramakrishna, who ran the Congress affairs in the rural areas, gained a lot of fame by conducting the agitation for allotting the Raiwada reservoir water only for irrigation, secured sanction for preparing black jaggery and later planned a successful strategy to help the Congress win the Zilla Praja Parishad elections.He was the only person who opposed privatisation of Vizag Stell Plant.

At present, Konathala Ramakrishna is not affilated to any political parties.He is aggressively launching agitations on the denial of special status to andhra Pradesh as promised by government of India. He also served as Member of Parliament for two terms. He was with the Congress Party for a long and later resigned to it after the death of late Ysr.