Budi Mutyala Naidu

Naidu was born in Taruva village, Anakapalli. His late father Venku Naidu and his wife Ramanamma were farmers.^[4] He is from Velama community. He studied intermediate (plus two) at G. J. College, Devarapalli.^[5][6]

Naidu started his political career in 1984 and soon became the president of the Youth Congress, a wing of the Indian National Congress.^[5] Later, he became Gram Sarpanch of Taruva village and ZPTC chairman of Devarapalli.^[6] After the Indian National Congress he shifted to the YSR Congress Party and became an MLA in 2014, winning the Madugula seat.^[7] He won the 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election defeating Gavireddi Ramanaidu of the Telugu Desam Party by a margin of 4,761 votes. He was re-elected from Madugula as YSRCP candidate in 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election defeating Gavireddi Ramanaidu of the TDP by a margin of 16,392 votes. He later became the Government Whip and one of the deputy chief ministers.^[8][9] In April 2022, he was nominated as the state Panchayat Raj minister and was also made one of the deputy chief ministers.^[10][11] In the 2024 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh he lost to C. M. Ramesh of the BJP by a margin of 2,96,530 votes.^[12]