Kalagara Sai Lakshmana Rao, commonly known as K S Lakshmana Rao, is an ex-member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council.

Career

Roa worked as a lecturer in political science at the Hindu College in Guntur. As of March:2007, he is the state vice-president for Jan Vignana Vedika. He has been an active member of United Teacher Federation leading many movements to safeguard the interests of teachers.

In 2007 he contested the election for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council representing Krishna-Guntur Teachers Cons*uency. He won the election after the second-preference votes were counted and entered the Council for the first time. He secured 5,670 votes while the next contestant secured 2,210 votes.

He was re-elected in 2009 elections with over 76% of the first-preference votes. He securing 7,625 first presidential votes out of 10,211 votes polled, while the next contestant secured 1,928 votes.

He has contested in 2015 elections, held on 22 March to the same cons*uency, but has lost the election. He secured 5,383 votes while the winner secured 7,146 votes.

He was re-elected in 2019 elections to the same cons*uency with a majority of 68,120 votes. At the end of 12 rounds of counting, he secured 80,670 votes out of 1.49 lakh votes polled.

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