Galla Jayadev

Galla Jayadev aka Jay Galla
Member of Parliament - Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office
May 2014
Constituency Guntur
Personal details
Born Diguvamagham, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India
Political party Telugu Desam Party
Spouse(s) Padmavathi Galla (1991 – Present)
Relations
Children 2
Residence Guntur
Hyderabad
Tirupati
Alma mater University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Religion Hindu
Website https://facebook.com/jayadev.galla

Galla Jayadev also known as Jayadev Galla or Jay Galla is an Indian business executive.[1] and politician from Andhra Pradesh. He is the Managing Director of Amara Raja Group.[2] On 8 March 2014, he joined the Telugu Desam Party and won the 2014 Lok Sabha Election from Guntur (Lok Sabha constituency). [3]

Early life

Jayadev was born in Diguvamagham, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh to Ramachandra Naidu Galla and Aruna Kumari Galla. His father is an industrialist who founded the Amara Raja Group. His mother Aruna Kumari Galla is a former MLA from Chandragiri consistuency and was also a minister in the Andhra Pradesh state government. His grandfather Paturi Rajagopala Naidu was a former Indian parliamentarian. Along with his parents, Jayadev moved to USA, where he lived for around 22 years.[4] He studied politics and economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he joined Lambda Chi Alpha.[5][6]

Personal life

Jay has a sister named Ramadevi Gourineni. Jay married Padmavathi Ghattamaneni, daughter of prominent Telugu film actor Krishna on June 26, 1991.[7] They have two children – Siddharth Galla and Ashok Galla. He is known to be very close to his brother-in-law, Telugu actor Mahesh Babu.[8][9]

Career

After his graduation, Jay worked as an international sales executive at GNB Battery Technologies in USA. On his return from the United States in 1992, he took up the task of setting up the sales and service network for the industrial battery division of Amara Raja.[10] In 1992 along with his father Ramachandra Naidu Galla started looking at automotive batteries as viable business and tied up with Johnson Controls the US based giant and gave then 26% stake in their company Amara Raja to start Amara Raja Batteries Limited (ARBL). ARBL is one of the leading manufacturer of Advanced Lead Acid batteries in India.[11] He took over as the Managing Director of Amara Raja Batteries in 2003 from his father. Of late he has been trying to get into the steps of his mother by entering into politics.He contested 16th Lok Sabha election from the Guntur Constituency in Andhra Pradesh and won with a big margin .[12]

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