Marri Rajasekhar Reddy

Reddy was born in Hyderabad, India, to Marri Laxman Reddy and Arundathi Reddy. He married Mamatha Reddy and they have a son and a daughter. He passed intermediate from Wesley Junior College in 1989.^[4] He is the son in law of BRS MLA and minister Ch. Malla Reddy.^[5][6]

Reddy, who is in the education field, made his political move joining Telangana Rashtra Samithi in 2019.^[4] He won as an MLA for the first time from Malkajgiri Assembly constituency representing Bharat Rashtra Samithi in the 2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election.^[7] He polled 125,049 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Mynampally Hanumanth Rao of Indian National Congress, by a huge margin of 49,530 votes.^[8][9][10]

In August 2024, Telangana revenue department served demolition notices to two of the institutions owned by Reddy, for allegedly building on lake beds, following a High Court directive to conduct an anti encroachment drive.^[11] The two institutions are the Marri Laxman Reddy Institute of Technology and the Institute of Aeronautical Engineering which are built on Chinna Damera Cheruvu lake bed in Dundigul district.^[11] Earlier in December 2023 after the assembly election, his phone number was allegedly spoofed and BRS leaders reportedly received threatening calls from that number according to a police complaint made to Rachakonda Police Commissioner DS Chauhan.^[12]