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Thaneeru Harish Rao (born 3 June 1972) is an Indian politician from the TRS.He is the Finance Minister of Telangana from 2019. He has been a member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly since 2004 representing Siddipet.
Between 2014 and 2018, he served as Minister for Irrigation, Marketing & Legislative Affairs of Telangana. With his win at the 2018 assembly election, Rao became the youngest six-time member of any legislative assembly in India. He is appointed as the Minister of Finance in the cabinet expansion held on 8 September 2019.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Political career
3 Political statistics
4 As Irrigation Minister
5 Kaleshwaram Project
6 Party trouble shooter
7 References
8 External links
Early life
Rao was born in Chintamadaka, Siddipet, and his native place is Thotapally in Velama Community Family, Karimnagar District to Satyanarayana Rao and Laxmi Bai. His father was a government employee. He studied at Vaniniketan Paathashala. He completed his graduation From Kakatiya University. And he is also a Finance Minister
Political career
Harish Rao started his political journey with Telangana Rashtra Samithi as youth leader. He was elected to assembly at the age of 32 from Siddipet (Assembly constituency). He raised his strong voice in assembly on various issues of Telangana region. Soon, he became key member of Telangana Rashtra Samithi and started working as Internal party strategist. He along with other MLA's resigned as Congress party delayed the announcement of bifurcation of Telangana. He won as MLA with majority over 58000 though it was major set back for party winning only 7 MLA seats and 2 MP seats out of 17 MLA's and 4 MP's contested. In 2009, once again elected as MLA from Siddipet (Assembly constituency) constituency with over 60000 majority. He elected as TRS.