Know Your Peddapalli MP B Venkatesh Nethakani

B Venkatesh Nethakani – Peddapalli (TRS)

In Peddapalli (SC) reserved constituency, the TRS’ Borlakunta Venkatesh Nethakani (42), who joined the party after his defeat in the 2018 Assembly elections on a Congress ticket from the Peddapalle Assembly constituency, won with an emphatic margin of 95,180 votes over his nearest rival A Chandrasekhar of the Congress. Nethakani was formerly a Deputy Commissioner in the Prohibition & Excise Department of the State government and quit his post to join politics. Even before he resigned from his government position, he had actively involved in fighting for the rights of the Nethakani community, one of the lesser known of the SC communities in the State.