Telangana Legislative Council

Telangana Legislative Council
Telaṅgāṇa Śāsana Mandali
Telangana Legislative Council; Telaṅgāṇa Śāsana Mandali
Type
Type	Upper house of the Telangana Legislature
Term limits	6 years
History
Founded	2 June 2014; (10 years ago)
Leadership
Governor	Jishnu Dev Varma ; since 31 July 2024
Secretary General	Dr. Narasimha Charyulu ; since 1 September 2017
Chairman	Gutha Sukender Reddy, BRS ; since 14 March 2022
Deputy Chairman	Banda Prakash, BRS ; since 12 February 2023
Chief Minister	Anumula Revanth Reddy, INC ; since 07 December 2023
Leader of the House; (Chief Minister)	Anumula Revanth Reddy, INC ; since 07 December 2023
Deputy Chief Minister	Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, INC ; since 07 December 2023
Minister of Legislative Affairs	D. Sridhar Babu, INC ; since 07 December 2023
Leader of the Opposition	S. Madhusudhana Chary, BRS ; since 11 September 2024
Structure
Seats	40 (34 Elected + 6 Nominated)
Political groups	Government (15) INDIA (15) INC (13); TJS (1); CPI (1); Official Opposition (19) BRS (19); Other Opposition (6) BJP (3); AIMIM (2); PRTU (1);
Elections
Voting system	Single transferable vote
Last election	January 2022
Meeting place
	Jubilee Hall, Hyderabad
Website
	Telangana Legislative Council

The Telangana Legislative Council or Telangana Śāsana Mandali is the upper house of the Telangana Legislature of the Indian state of Telangana; the lower house being the Telangana Legislative Assembly. It is situated in the state capital of Hyderabad, and has 40 members. The Legislative Council has been in existence since 2 June 2014 after bifurcation from the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Composition

The chairman, elected by the council, presides over the sessions of the council. The deputy chairman is also elected to preside in the chairman's absence.^[1]^[2]

Presiding officers

Designation	Name
Governor	Jishnu Dev Varma
Chairman	Gutha Sukender Reddy (BRS)
Deputy Chairman	Banda Prakash (BRS)
Leader of the House (Chief Minister)	Revanth Reddy (INC)
Leader of the Opposition	S. Madhusudhana Chary (BRS)

Members

Party		Members
	Bharat Rashtra Samithi	19
	Indian National Congress	13
	Bharatiya Janata Party	3
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	2
	Telangana Jana Samithi	1
	Communist Party of India	1
	Progressive Recognized Teachers Union	1
Total		40

Current members

Telangana Legislative Council has its members represented from BRS, INC,BJP,AIMIM and TJS parties. The following list includes the members:

Elected by Members of the Legislative Assembly (14)

Keys: BRS (8) INC (5) CPI (1)

#	Member		Term Start	Term End
1	Dasoju Sravan Kumar	BRS	30-Mar-2025	29-Mar-2031
2	Challa Venkatrami Reddy	BRS	30-Mar-2023	29-Mar-2029
3	Kurumaiahgari Naveen Kumar	BRS	30-Mar-2023	29-Mar-2029
4	Deshapathi Srinivas	BRS	30-Mar-2023	29-Mar-2029
5	Banda Prakash	BRS	22-Nov-2021	21-Nov-2027
6	Parupati Venkatrama Reddy	BRS	22-Nov-2021	21-Nov-2027
7	Thakkellapally Ravindar Rao	BRS	22-Nov-2021	21-Nov-2027
8	Gutha Sukender Reddy	BRS	22-Nov-2021	21-Nov-2027
9	Vijaya Shanthi Moturi	INC	30-Mar-2025	29-Mar-2031
10	Addanki Dayakar	INC	30-Mar-2025	29-Mar-2031
11	Kethavath Shankar Naik	INC	30-Mar-2025	29-Mar-2031
12	Bomma Mahesh Kumar Goud	INC	23-Jan-2024	21-Nov-2027
13	Balmoor Venkat Narsing Rao	INC	23-Jan-2024	21-Nov-2027
14	Nellikanti Satyam	CPI	30-Mar-2025	29-Mar-2031

Elected from Local Authorities Constituencies (14)

Keys: BRS (8) INC (4) AIMIM (2)

#	Constituency	Member		Term Start	Term End
1	Adilabad	Dande Vittal	INC	05-Jan-2022	04-Jan-2028
2	Karimnagar	T. Bhanu Prasad Rao	INC	05-Jan-2022	04-Jan-2028
3	Karimnagar	L. Ramana	BRS	05-Jan-2022	04-Jan-2028
4	Medak	Vanteri Yadav Reddy	BRS	05-Jan-2022	04-Jan-2028
5	Ranga Reddy	Sunkari Raju	BRS	05-Jan-2022	04-Jan-2028
6	Mahabubnagar	Naveen Kumar Reddy^[3]	BRS	02-Jun-2024	04-Jan-2028
7	Mahabubnagar	Kuchukulla Damodar Reddy	INC	05-Jan-2022	04-Jan-2028
8	Khammam	Tata Madhusudhan	BRS	05-Jan-2022	04-Jan-2028
9	Warangal	Pochampally Srinivas Reddy	BRS	05-Jan-2022	04-Jan-2028
10	Nalgonda	Mankena Koti Reddy	BRS	05-Jan-2022	04-Jan-2028
11	Ranga Reddy	P. Mahender Reddy	INC	05-Jan-2022	04-Jan-2028
12	Hyderabad	Mirza Riyaz Ul Hassan Effendi	AIMIM	02-May-2025	01-May-2031
13	Nizamabad	K. Kavitha	BRS	05-Jan-2022	04-Jan-2028
14	Hyderabad	Mirza Rahmat Baig	AIMIM	02-May-2023	01-May-2029

Elected from Graduates constituencies (3)

Keys: BJP (1) INC (1) BRS (1)

#	Constituency	Member		Term Start	Term End
1	Nalgonda-Warangal-Khammam	Teenmar Mallanna	INC	7-Jun-2024	29-Mar-2027
2	Mahabubnagar-Hyderabad-Ranga Reddy	Surabhi Vani Devi	BRS	30-Mar-2021	29-Mar-2027
3	Nizamabad-Adilabad-Medak-Karimnagar	C. Anji Reddy	BJP	30-Mar-2025	29-Mar-2031

Elected from Teachers constituencies (3)

Keys: BJP (2) PRTU (1)

#	Constituency	Member		Term Start	Term End
1	Nalgonda-Warangal-Khammam	P. Sripal Reddy	PRTU	30-Mar-2025	29-Mar-2031
2	Nizamabad-Adilabad-Medak-Karimnagar	Malka Komaraiah	BJP	30-Mar-2025	29-Mar-2031
3	Mahabubnagar-Hyderabad-Ranga Reddy	A. Venkata Narayana Reddy	BJP	30-Mar-2023	29-Mar-2029

Nominated by Governor (6)

Keys: INC (3) BRS (2) TJS (1)

#	Member		Term Start	Term End
1	Amer Ali Khan	INC	27-Jan-2024	26-Jan-2030
2	Boggarapu Dayanand	INC	15-Nov-2020	14-Nov-2026
3	Basavaraju Saraiah	INC	15-Nov-2020	14-Nov-2026
4	S. Madhusudhana Chary	BRS	14-Dec-2021	13-Dec-2027
5	Goreti Venkanna	BRS	15-Nov-2020	14-Nov-2026
6	M. Kodandaram	TJS	27-Jan-2024	26-Jan-2030

Former Members from 2007

BRS (17) TDP (8) INC (23) BJP (1) CPI (2) IND (5)

#	Member
1.	Thelukutla Gopala Venkata Krishna Reddy	INC
2.	Paturi Sudhakar Reddy	BRS
3.	V. Bhoopal Reddy	INC
4.	S. Jagadeeswar Reddy	INC
5.	Nethi Vidya Sagar	INC
6.	Potla Nageswara Rao	TDP
7.	Arikela Narsa Reddy	TDP
8.	Patil Venugopal Reddy	INC
9.	Naradasu Laxman Rao	BRS
10.	Konda Muralidhar Rao	INC
11.	S. Indrasain Reddy	INC
12.	K. B. Naranayappa	INC
13.	Poola Ravindar	IND
14.	Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy	INC
15.	Peer Shabbir Ahmed	INC
16.	Patnam Narender Reddy	TDP
17.	P. Yadagiri	TDP
18.	Nagapuri Rajalingam	INC
19.	Mohd. Ali Shabbir	INC
20.	Mohammed Saleem	TDP
21.	M.S.Prabhakar Rao	INC
22.	K.Premsagar Rao	INC
23.	K.Yadava Reddy	INC
24.	K.Swamy Goud	BRS
25.	K.R. Amos	INC
26.	Ibrahim Bin Abdullah Masquati	TDP
27.	K. Nageshwar	IND
28.	Kapilavai Dileep Kumar	BRS
29.	Chukka Ramaiah	IND
30.	Cherupally Seetha Ramulu	CPI(M)
31.	Bodakunti Venkateswarlu	TDP
32.	Bharathi Dhiravat	INC
33.	Balasani Laxminarayana	TDP
34.	B. Mohan Reddy	IND
35.	P.J.C. Shekara Raoy	CPI
36.	N. Ramchander Rao	BJP
37.	Puranam Satish Kumar	BRS
38.	Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy	INC
39.	Thummala Nageswara Rao	BRS
40.	Rekulapally Bhoopathi Reddy	BRS
41.	Tera Chinnapa Reddy	BRS
42.	Kancharla Bhupal Reddy	BRS
43.	Nayani Narasimha Reddy	BRS
44.	Yegge Mallesham	BRS
45.	K. Naveen Rao	BRS
47.	Ramulu Naik	BRS
48.	Akula Lalitha	INC
49.	Mynampally Hanumanth Rao	BRS
50.	T. Santhosh Kumar	INC
51.	Karne Prabhakar	BRS
52.	Anumula Revanth Reddy	IND
53.	Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka	INC
54.	Palla Rajeshwar Reddy	BRS
55.	Padi Kaushik Reddy	BRS
56.	Kasireddy Narayan Reddy	BRS
57.	Kadiyam Srihari	BRS
57.	M. Srinivas Reddy	BRS
58.	Kura Raghotham Reddy	PRTU
59.	M. S. Prabhakar Rao	INC

References

^ "Member's Information - Legislative Council - Liferay DXP". aplegislature.org. Archived from the original on 27 September 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
^ "WHAT IS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL". Business Standard India. Archived from the original on 1 June 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
^ "BRS candidate Naveen Kumar Reddy wins Mahabubnagar MLC local body polls". 2 June 2024. Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.

[1] "Member's Information - Legislative Council - Liferay DXP". aplegislature.org. Archived from the original on 27 September 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.

[2] "WHAT IS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL". Business Standard India. Archived from the original on 1 June 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.

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