Danam Nagender

Danam Nagender (born 9 August 1964) is an Indian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly from Khairatabad Assembly Constituency, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. He left (BRS) Telangana Rashtra Samithi and joined Indian National Congress party in March, 2024. He was the Senior Leader of Congress Party in Hyderabad. He was also Minister for Labour, Employment, Training & Factories, Industrial Training Institutes & Health in United Andhra Pradesh. He had represented the Indian National Congress party. Nagender won his seat in the 2009 Andhra Pradesh State Assembly Elections. He lost it in the 2014 assembly elections. He resigned from Congress party on 23 June 2018, joined Telangana Rashtra Samithi and won from Khairatabad in general election Dec. 2018. He joined Congress party in 2024.

Electoral History

Year Constituency Party Votes % Opponent Opponent Party Opponent Votes % Result Margin % 1989 Asifnagar INC 23,244 27.80% K. Rajazi TDP 33,835 40.50% Lost -10,591 -12.70% 1994 34,141 43.10% Virasat Rasool Khan AIMIM 20,443 25.80% Won 13,698 17.30% 1999 41,833 46.50% D. Nagender 21,213 23.60% Won 20,620 22.90% 2004 TDP 37,395 45.40% Haji Mohd. Virasat Rasool Khan AIMIM 29,421 35.70% Won 7,974 9.70% 2004 (By) INC 21,057 29.40% Mohammed Moazam Khan AIMIM 32,168 44.90% Lost -11,111 -15.50% 2009 Khairatabad INC 45,646 38.64% Vijaya Rama Rao K. TDP 31,743 26.87% Won 13,903 11.77% 2014 32,255 22.68% Chintala Ramachandra Reddy BJP 53,101 37.33% Lost -20,846 -14.65% 2018 TRS 63,068 44.54% Chintala Ramachandra Reddy 34,666 24.48% Won 28,402 20.06% 2023 BRS 67,368 43.20% P. Vijaya Reddy INC 45,358 29.09% Won 22,010 14.11% 2024 Secunderabad INC 423,068 40.38% G. Kishan Reddy BJP 473,012 45.15% Lost -49,944 -4.77%

Career D. Nagender was elected from Asifnagar assembly constituency in 1994, 1999 and 2004 as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. In the 2004 Andhra Pradesh state Assembly elections, he left the Indian National Congress (INC) for the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). After winning from Asifnagar on the TDP ticket, he resigned his seat and left the TDP in an effort to get a place in the cabinet of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy through re-election as an INC MLA. He failed in the by-election. In an interview to the Press ABN Andhra Jyothi he said that he is a great follower of P. Janardhan Reddy, he and his wife worship him every day and he admires him a lot.

After delimitation of constituencies, Nagender contested and won from Khairathabad Assembly Constituency in 2009 elections.

Nagender was inducted into the cabinet for the first time by YSR in 2009 and held the portfolio of Health and Medical Services, Labour, Employment, Training & Factories, and Industrial Training Institutes continued in the same portfolio in the cabinet of Konijeti Rosaiah. Nagender lost in the 2014 elections to BJP candidate Chintala Ramachandra Reddy and later joined BRS party in 2018 and won as MLA in 2018 and 2023.

Danam Nagender left Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) on 17 March 2024 and joined the Congress party in the presence of AICC in-charge for Telangana Deepadas Munsi and Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy in Hyderabad ahead of 2024 Loksabha Elections.