Andhra Pradesh government has decided to conduct the last rites of senior politician and Kapu movement leader Mudragada Padmanabham – Government orders issued
Raja Pentapati- AP Bureau ChiefAMARAVATI July 15th , Bharat Degital News
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The Andhra Pradesh government will conduct the last rites of senior political leader and Kapu movement leader Mudragada Padmanabham, who breathed his last yesterday, with official honours, the government has issued orders to this effect today.
Mudragada, a native of Kirlampudi village in the joint East Godavari district, served as a four-time MLA, once as a Lok Sabha member and as a state cabinet minister… It has been decided to conduct the last rites with official honours. The officials have been given instructions to this effect.
Mudragada, who has earned a good name not only in politics and as a leader of the Kapu movement in the state but also in the country, has earned a good name in the country. Mudragada Padmanabham’s life has taken many political turns.
Mudragada Padmanabham is a senior Kapu leader from East Godavari district. He spent four decades in politics and is best known for his tireless struggle for Kapu reservations under various governments in Andhra Pradesh and for his numerous fasts to death. He served as an MLA several times and as an MP from Kakinada for one term. He later served as a minister in both the TDP and Congress governments before joining hands with the YSRCP.
Mudragada Padmanabham was born on 22 January 1953 in a Telugu Kapu family in Kirlampudi village in East Godavari district; his father’s name was Veera Raghav Rao. He rose to prominence in local politics through the farmer and social issues of the Godavari region.
From the late 1970s, he became involved in agricultural and Kapu social issues. This laid the foundation for almost all his political and movement strategies in the future.
He entered electoral politics as a Janata Party MLA in 1978. When N.T. Rama Rao launched the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in 1982, Mudragada joined the party and won the 1983 and 1985 assembly elections from Prathipadu in East Godavari district.
In 1988, in the presence of Rajiv Gandhi at a large meeting in Prathipadu, he joined the Indian National Congress and again became an MLA and a minister in the Chenna Reddy government.
He later returned to the TDP and was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kakinada in 1999; he lost the 2004 parliamentary elections and the 2009 assembly elections as a Congress candidate from Pithapuram.
He later joined the YSR Congress Party and was elected as the Y.S. He was associated with Jagan Mohan Reddy’s Odarpu Yatra and remained a prominent Kapu leader in that party until his death.
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