Vasantha Krishna Prasad

Vasantha Venkata Krishna Prasad (born 8 April 1970) is an Indian politician and businessman from the state of Andhra Pradesh. He contested the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election and won as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing the Mylavaram Assembly constituency on behalf of YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) and has been serving as the MLA since 2019. In 2024, he left the YSRCP and joined the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and contested the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election representing Mylavaram constituency on behalf of the TDP. He had unsuccessfully contested from Nandigama Assembly constituency on behalf of Indian National Congress in 1999.

Early life Prasad was born to Nageswara Rao and Hymavathi. He hails from Ithavaram village of Nandigama mandal, Krishna district (now in NTR district). Prasad is married to Sirisha and has three children. He is a promoter of Vasantha Projects Ltd.

He contested the 1999 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election representing the Nandigama Assembly constituency on behalf of Indian National Congress but lost to Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao by a margin of more than 13,000 votes.

In 2014, he was named as one of the accused in the charge-sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as part of the disproportionate assets probe against Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, the YSRCP president. Prasad was included in the charge-sheet since he is the promoter of the firm Vasantha Projects which was allocated a housing project – which the CBI accused was a result of the firm's shareholder, who is a close relative of Reddy, influencing the government. He worked as the party's in-charge for the Mylavaram constituency during 2019. He contested the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election on behalf of YSR Congress Party representing the Mylavaram Assembly constituency and won as the Member of the Legislative Assembly defeating the incumbent, and his principal opponent and a long-term political rival, Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao of the Telugu Desam Party. Prasad announced on 5 February 2024 that he would leave the YSRCP. Subsequently, he joined the TDP on 2 March.