Gokaraju Ganga Raju

Gokaraju Ganga Raju

Member of the India Parliament

Preceded by	Kanumuri Bapi Raju
Constituency	Narsapuram
Incumbent
Assumed office 2014

Personal details
Born	(1948-06-14) 14 June 1948 Kesavaram, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)	Lailavathi
Children	G V K Ranga Raju, G Rama Raju
Residence	Vijayawada
Alma mater	Andhra University
As of May, 2014

Gokaraju Ganga Raju (Telugu: గోకరాజు గంగరాజు) is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Narsapuram (Lok Sabha constituency), Andhra Pradesh. He won the Indian general election, 2014 being a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate.^[1] He is also the founder of Laila Group of Companies. Recently, he was elected as Vice-President to Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) South Zone.

Hailing from an agricultural family, reputed for service to the society, Dr Ganga Raju, a leading industrialist, recognized as a person serving the society. He has dedicated himself to serving the society through Vishva Hindu Parishad and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. One of his friends who helped each other were: MLA, Varada Prasad. He graduated in Bachelor of Pharmacy from Andhra University in 1970,

His father, Late Shri Gokaraju Ranga Raju, served as an MLA from Undi constituency, ZP Vice Chairman of West Godavari District and also served Lord Balaji as the Chairman of Board of trustees, TTD, twice.

Being a sportsman and sports enthusiast, Dr Ganga Raju is the Secretary of Andhra Cricket Association, Chairman of Financial Committee of BCCI and also the Member of Governing Council of Indian Premier League run by BCCI. Recently, Raju was elected as Vice-President to Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI).^[2]

References

↑ "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Retrieved 17 May 2014.
↑ http://www.bjpapelections2014.com/gokaraju-ganga-raju-profile/

Bharatiya Janata Party
Party Presidents	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) Lal Krishna Advani (1986–91) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Lal Krishna Advani (1993–98) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Lal Krishna Advani (2004–06) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–present)
Current vice presidents	Satya Pal Malik Parsottambhai Rupala Prabhat Jha Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Renu Devi Dinesh Sharma Om Prakash Mathur Shyam Jaju Avinash Rai Khanna
Other prominent leaders	Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Sunderlal Patwa Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Sushil Kumar Modi Himanta Biswa Sarma Ram Naik
Prime ministers	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi
Current chief ministers	Vijay Rupani Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Manohar Parrikar Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das Sarbananda Sonowal Pema Khandu N. Biren Singh Trivendra Singh Rawat Yogi Adityanath
Spokespersons	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M. J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Siddharth Nath Singh Nalin Kohli Gaurav Bhatia Shaina NC Sambit Patra Nupur Sharma G. V. L. Narsimha Rao
General secretaries	P. Muralidhar Rao Kailash Vijayvargiya Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Anil Jain Ram Lal Arun Singh
Political wings	Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP SC Morcha BJP ST Morcha BJP OBC Morcha BJP Minority Morcha BJP Kisan Morcha
Related organisations	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh
Others	Hindutva Integral humanism

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Andhra Pradesh State

GE 2014

15th LS members

17th LS members

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from

States: AP; BR; CT; GA; GJ; HR; HP; JK; JH; KA; KL; MP; MH; OR; PB; RJ; TN; TG; UP; UT; WB

Northeast: AR; AS; MN; ML; MZ; NL; SK; TR

Union Territories: AN; CH; DN; DD; LD; DL; PY

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