Chennamaneni Ramesh

Chennamaneni Ramesh (born 3 February 1956) is a German-Indian former politician. He is a German citizen and also contested Telangana Legislative Assembly. He won four times as an MLA from the Vemulawada constituency in the Telangana Legislative Assembly, three time on Bharat Rashtra Samithi ticket. After denying a ticket for the 2023 elections due to his pending citizenship case in the high court, the then chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao appointed him as the advisor to the Government of Telangana on agricultural affairs with a Cabinet rank on 25 August 2023 for a five-year term.

Early life Ramesh was born on 3 February 1956 in Karimnagar. His father Rajeshwara Rao (1923 – 2016) was a communist leader. His uncle C. Vidyasagar Rao served as the Governor of Maharashtra. He completed his M.Sc. in Agriculture at Leipzig, and obtained his Ph.D. from Humboldt University of Berlin in 1987.

In 2013, Hyderabad High Court annulled Ramesh's candidature to the assembly based on the case filed by his opponent Adi Srinivas, who alleged that Ramesh obtained citizenship by submitting fake documents. However, Ramesh appealed to the Supreme Court of India and obtained a stay. The MHA re-iterated the same in 2019 by issuing a fresh order but Ramesh obtained a stay order from the High Court.

Personal life Ramesh married Maria, a German citizen. The couple has 2 sons and a daughter.