Nandyal (Lok Sabha constituency)
Members of Parliament
Table:
Year

Winner

Party

1952

Rayasam Seshagiri Rao

Independent

1957

Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah

Indian National Congress

1962

Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah

Indian National Congress

1967

Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah

Indian National Congress

1971

Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah

Indian National Congress

1977

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

Janata Party

1977 ^

Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah (by-poll)

Indian National Congress

1980

Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah

Indian National Congress

1984

Maddur Subba Reddy

Telugu Desam Party

1989

Bojja Venkata Reddy

Indian National Congress

1991

Gangula Prathapa Reddy

Indian National Congress

1991 ^

P. V. Narasimha Rao (by-poll)

Indian National Congress

1996

P. V. Narasimha Rao (Retained Berhampur Seat)

Indian National Congress

1996 ^

Bhuma Nagi Reddy (by-poll)

Telugu Desam Party

1998

Bhuma Nagi Reddy

Telugu Desam Party

1999

Bhuma Nagi Reddy

Telugu Desam Party

2004

S. P. Y. Reddy

Indian National Congress

2009

S. P. Y. Reddy

Indian National Congress

2014

S. P. Y. Reddy

YSR Congress Party

2019

Pocha Brahmananda Reddy

YSR Congress Party

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The Indian general election of 1951-52 , held from 25 October 1951 to 21 February 1952 , was the first election to the Lok Sabha since India became independent in August 1947 . It was conducted under the provisions of the Indian Constitution , which was adopted on 26 November 1949 . Elections to most of the state legislatures took place simultaneously . After the adoption of the constitution on 26 November 1949 , the Constituent Assembly continued to act as the interim parliament . The interim cabinet was headed by Jawaharlal Nehru and consisted of 15 members from diverse communities and parties . Various members of this cabinet resigned from their posts and formed their own parties to contest the elections . 1949 candidates competed for 489 seats in the Lok Sabha . More than 173 million people out of an overall population of about 360 million were eligible to vote , making it the largest election conducted at the time . Voter turnout was 45.7% . The Indian National Congress ( INC ) won a landslide victory , winning 364 of the 489 seats and 45% of the total votes polled . This was over four times as many votes as the second-largest party . Jawaharlal Nehru became the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the country .
Rayasam Seshagiri Rao , ( born 13 July 1909 - died 1963 ) , was a member of the 1st Lok Sabha of India and won the 1952 elections as an independent candidate . He represented the Nandyal constituency of Andhra Pradesh . He was born on 13 July 1909 at Nandyal of Andhra Pradesh . He graduated with a Bachelor 's degree in law from Presidency College , Madras . He was married to Smt . Kamalamma in 1925 . He was an advocate ; and served as President of Bar Association . He was an adviser to Land Mortgage Bank and served as secretary , Rayalaseema Maha Sabha . He was also a poet , and awarded title of Kavi Shekhara by Sahitya Parishad . His published works include : Nadeswari , Maharishi Mahanandayya , Panikeswara Mahatmyamu , Kalyan Manjari , and playlet Krotta Namoona ( 1933 ) . He also authored a book on astrology . [ citation needed ]
An independent or nonpartisan politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party . There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent .
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The Indian National Congress ( pronunciation ( help·info ) ) ( INC , often called the Congress Party or simply Congress ) is a political party in India with widespread roots . Founded in 1885 , it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa . [ a ] From the late 19th century , and especially after 1920 , under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi , Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement . Congress led India to independence from Great Britain , [ b ] [ c ] and powerfully influenced other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire . [ d ] Congress is a big tent party whose liberal social democratic platform is generally considered to be on the centre-left of Indian politics . Congress ' social policy is based upon the Gandhian principle of Sarvodaya-the lifting up of all sections of society-which involves the improvement of the lives of economically underprivileged and socially marginalised people . On social and economic issues , it advocates liberty , social justice , equality , welfare state , along with progressive and secular society . The party 's constitution adheres to liberal-democratic socialist philosophy . After India 's independence in 1947 , Congress formed the central government of India , and many regional state governments . Congress became India 's dominant political party ; as of 2019 , in the 17 general elections since independence , it has won an outright majority on seven occasions and has led the ruling coalition a further three times , heading the central government for more than 54 years . There have been six Congress Prime Ministers , the first being Jawaharlal Nehru ( 1947-1964 ) , and the most recent Manmohan Singh ( 2004-2014 ) . Although it did not fare well in the last two general elections in India in 2014 and 2019 , it remains one of two major , nationwide , political parties in India , along with the right-wing , Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) .
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In a major turn of events , the ruling Congress lost control of India for the first time in independent India in the Indian general election , 1977 . The hastily formed Janata alliance of parties , opposed to the ruling Congress party , won 298 seats . Morarji Desai was chosen as the leader of the alliance in the newly formed parliament and thus became India 's first non-Congress Prime Minister on 24 March . The Congress lost nearly 200 seats . Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her powerful son Sanjay Gandhi both lost their seats . The election came after the end of The Emergency that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had imposed in 1975 ; it effectively suspended democracy , suppressed the opposition , and took control of the media with authoritarian measures . The opposition called for a restoration of democracy and many Indians saw the election results as a repudiation of the Emergency .
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy pronunciation ( help·info ) ( 19 May 1913 - 1 June 1996 ) was the sixth President of India , serving from 1977 to 1982 . Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress Party in the Indian independence movement , he went on to hold several key offices in independent India - as the first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh , a two-time Speaker of the Lok Sabha and a Union Minister - before becoming the youngest-ever Indian president . Born in present-day Anantapur district , Andhra Pradesh , Reddy completed his schooling at Adayar and joined the Government Arts College at Anantapur . He quit to become an Indian independence activist and was jailed for participating in the Quit India Movement . He was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1946 as a Congress party representative . Reddy became the deputy chief minister of Andhra State in 1953 and the first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 . He was a union cabinet minister under Prime Ministers Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi from 1964 to 1967 and Lok Sabha Speaker from 1967 to 1969 . He later retired from active politics but returned in 1975 , responding to Jayaprakash Narayan 's call for Total Revolution against the Indira Gandhi Government . Elected to Parliament in 1977 as a candidate of the Janata Party , Reddy was unanimously elected Speaker of the Sixth Lok Sabha and three months later was elected unopposed as President of India . As president , Reddy worked with Prime Ministers Morarji Desai , Charan Singh and Indira Gandhi . Reddy was succeeded by Giani Zail Singh in 1982 and he retired to his farm in Anantapur . He died in 1996 and his samadhi is at Kalpally Burial Ground , Bangalore .
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General elections were held in India in 1984 soon after the assassination of previous Prime Minister , Indira Gandhi , though the vote in Assam and Punjab was delayed until 1985 due to ongoing fighting . The election was a landslide victory for the Indian National Congress of Rajiv Gandhi ( son of Indira Gandhi ) , which won 404 of the 514 seats elected in 1984 and a further 10 in the delayed elections . The Telugu Desam Party of N. T. Rama Rao , a regional political party from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh , was the second largest party , winning 30 seats , thus achieving the distinction of becoming the first regional party to become a national opposition party . Voting was held immediately after the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in November and most of India supported Congress . The Bharatiya Janata Party won its first two seats , in Hanamkonda and Mahesana .
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