Kanumuru Raghu Rama Krishna Raju

Kanumuru Raghu Rama Krishna Raju (born 14 May 1962) is an Indian industrialist and politician who is the 23rd Deputy speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative assembly. He is a Member of Legislative assembly (MLA) in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative assembly representing Undi assembly constituency. He previously served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 17th Lok Sabha representing Narasapuram constituency, Andhra Pradesh. He belongs to Telugu Desam Party.

Early life Raghu Rama Krishna Raju was born on 14 May 1962 in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh to Kanumuru Venkata Satya Suryanarayana Raju and Annapoorna. He studied Master of Pharmacy at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.

Raju married Rama Devi in 1980. The couple have a son and a daughter. The differences between them were made public in November 2019 when Raju spoke out against the Andhra Pradesh government's effort to convert Telugu medium government schools to English medium. Ever since he spoke against his party and alleged scams in several government schemes.

In July 2020, YSRCP appealed to the Lok Sabha speaker to disqualify Raju as an MP stating Raju's anti-party activities as the reason. In October 2020, Raju wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging that Jaganmohan Reddy was promoting evangelism in Andhra Pradesh, in violation of the Indian constitution.

He was nominated as candidate from TDP for Undi Assembly constituency for 2024 AP elections and won as MLA and later on 14 November 2024 elected unopposed Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Deputy speaker.

Legal issues In March 2021, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) booked a case against Raju and his family members who are directors of Ind Bharath Power Gencom Limited on charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery of valuable security, using forged documents as genuine and criminal misconduct of a public servant. The case was booked on behalf of a complaint by the State Bank of India alleging that the borrowing company, its directors, and public servants conspired to cheat and siphoned off a total of of bank funds.

In April 2021, he asked a CBI Special court to cancel the bail granted to Jagan Mohan Reddy. He alleged that the chief minister, on bail since 2012 on his disproportionate assets case, had violated the bail condition.