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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = T. G. Venkatesh
| office = [[Member of Parliament|MP]] of [[Rajya Sabha]] for [[Andhra Pradesh]]
| term_start = 22 June 2016
| term_end =
|predecessor = [[Jairam Ramesh]], [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|successor =
|party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| otherparty = [[Telugu Desham Party]]
}}

'''T. G. Venkatesh''' (born 16 May 1950) is an Indian businessman and politician. He served as a [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]] (MLA) in the [[Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh]] from 1999 to 2004 and from 2009 to 2014. He was Minister for Minor Irrigation during the government headed by [[Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy]]. He has been a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]] since 2016.

==Early life==
T. G. Venkatesh has been described as being among the richest people living in the [[Rayalaseema]] region of [[Andhra Pradesh]] state in India.<ref>{{cite news |title=Richest man in Rayalaseema loses house to flood |date=7 October 2009 |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-10-07/india/28112513_1_flood-water-richest-man-slush |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013101026/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-10-07/india/28112513_1_flood-water-richest-man-slush |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 October 2012 |work=[[The Times of India]] |accessdate=2018-01-04}}</ref> He was born to T. G. Gopal Setty and T. G. Gowramma on 16 May 1950 in [[Madanapalli]], [[Chittoor district]], Andhra Pradesh, and has a BCom degree from [[Sri Venkateswara University]] in [[Adoni]]. He married T. G. Swarajya Lakshmi Kumari on 22 February 1973. The couple have two daughters and a son named T.G. Bharath who had contested as an MLA in Assembly constituency elections 2019 and lost to Abdul Hafeez Khan of YSRCP.<ref name="biodata">{{cite web |title=Shri T. G. Venkatesh Member Of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) |url=http://164.100.47.5/newmembers/Website/Main.aspx |publisher=Parliament of India |accessdate=2018-01-04}}</ref>

==Business career==
After having successfully started a caustic soda factory called Sree Rayalaseema Alkalies and Allied Chemicals, Venkatesh diversified into manufacturing high-strength [[calcium hypochlorite]], power projects, wind power, manufacturing animal vaccines, large-scale salt producing units, movie theatres and star hotels, spread over Andhra Pradesh, [[Karnataka]] and [[Tamil Nadu]].{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

He was for some time the chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Trading Corporation.<ref name="biodata"/>

==Political career==
Venkatesh stood successfully in the [[Kurnool (Assembly constituency)|Kurnool constituency]] as a [[Telugu Desam Party]] (TDP) candidate in the [[1999 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1999 state assembly elections]], with V. Rambhupal Chowdary of the [[Indian National Congress]] being his nearest rival. In the [[2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2004 elections]], standing in the same constituency for the same party, he came second to [[M. Abdul Gafoor]] of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]].<ref name="results">{{cite web |title=Sitting and previous MLAs from Kurnool Assembly Constituency |publisher=Infobase |url=http://www.elections.in/andhra-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/kurnool.html |accessdate=2018-01-04}}</ref> He joined the INC later that year<ref name="pioneer"/> and as a candidate for that party he beat Gafoor in the [[2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|elections of 2009]].<ref name="results"/>

Objecting to the [[Telangana movement|bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh]], which would create a separate state of [[Telangana]], Venkatesh switched his support back to the TDP in March 2014, following a path recently taken by several other prominent INC politicians.<ref>{{cite news |title=Two former Andhra Pradesh ministers - TG Venkatesh and E Pratap Reddy - join TDP |agency=PTI |work=The Economic Times |date=9 March 2014 |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/31730190.cms |accessdate=2018-01-04}}</ref><ref name="pioneer">{{cite news |work=The Daily Pioneer |title=Two former Ministers from Congress join TDP |date=10 March 2014 |url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/two-former-ministers-from-congress-join-tdp.html |accessdate=2018-01-04}}</ref> He again stood in Kurnool as a TDP candidate in [[2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2014]], finishing second to S. V. Mohan Reddy of the [[YSR Congress Party]].<ref name="results"/>

He has been a TDP member of the Rajya Sabha representing Andhra Pradesh since June 2016.<ref>{{cite news |work=The Hindu |title=Six declared elected to Rajya Sabha |date=4 June 2016 |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/Six-declared-elected-to-Rajya-Sabha/article14384423.ece |accessdate=2018-01-04}}</ref>

In 2013, while Minister for Minor Irrigation, Venkatesh promised to support the [[Arya Vysya]] community in Andhra Pradesh, suggesting that they had lost their way politically and that they needed to develop their trading capability.<ref>{{cite news |work=The Hindu |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/tg-venkatesh-offers-support-to-arya-vysyas/article4451649.ece |title=T. G. Venkatesh offers support to Arya Vysyas |date=25 February 2013 |accessdate=2018-01-04}}</ref>

In September 2017, Venkatesh suggested that [[Kancha Ilaiah]] was a traitor and should be hanged.<ref>{{cite web|title=TD MP TG Venkatesh says ‘Hang ilaiah’ for his book|url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/politics/180917/td-mp-tg-venkatesh-says-hang-ilaiah-for-his-book.html|publisher=The Deccan Chronicle|accessdate=2018-01-04}}</ref> He believed that Ilaiah's book, titled ''Samajika Smugglurlu Komatollu'', should be banned as it incited both religious and [[Caste system in India|caste]]-based hatred.<ref>{{cite news |title=T.G. Venkatesh seeks ban on Ilaiah’s book |date=29 September 2017 |work=The Hindu |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/tg-venkatesh-seeks-ban-on-ilaiahs-book/article19772998.ece |accessdate=2018-01-04}}</ref> In 2012, he had courted controversy by suggesting that under-performing members of the [[Indian Administrative Service]] (IAS) should be shot, which some people considered to be an incitement to murder. He subsequently claimed that it was a figure of speech and that he would retract it if IAS officers admitted their incompetence.<ref>{{cite news |work=India Today |title=Andhra Pradesh minister for minor irrigation T.G. Venkatesh wants lazy bureaucrats to be 'shot dead' |first=A. Srinivasa |last=Rao |date=16 July 2012 |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/andhra-minister-wants-lazy-bureaucrats-to-be-shot-dead/1/208419.html |accessdate=2018-01-04}}</ref>
On 20 June 2019 he joined into BJP as TDP has lost in 2019 election.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.tgvgroup.com/ TGV Group homepage]

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