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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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'''Vetukuri Venkata Siva Rama Raju''', also known as Kalavapudi Siva, is an Indian politician and member of [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] representing [[Telugu Desam Party]] (TDP) from [[Undi]] (his Assembly constituency).<ref name="2014elections">{{cite web|url=http://www.ap.gov.in/government/mla/|title=Election Candidates|access-date=7 October 2015|publisher=Andhra Pradesh Government}}</ref>

==Biography==
===Political career===
In 2009 he was elected as a representative from the [[Undi]] constituency in the [[2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]] with 42.07% of the votes, a majority of 15,568 votes. He ran again in the 2014 general elections and was elected to the Andhra Pradesh assembly from the Undi constituency with a vote share of 58.21% and a majority of 36,231 votes, one of the highest majority in the 2014 Andhra Pradesh general elections.

===Personal life===
Vetukuri Venkata Siva Rama Raju was born on 10 May 1970 in a small village of Kalavapudi in the West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. Siva attended primary and secondary schooling in [[Eluru]] at St. Xavier’s High school graduating in 1984. He went to [[Bhimavaram]] for his higher education and completed his intermediate education at Kasturibhai Government Junior College. He received his Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Dantuluri Natrayana Raju College (D.N.R. College - Andhra University) Bhimavaram, in 1989.

He is an active director of VEM Technologies Private Limited which operates in assembly and systems integration for aerospace and defense systems.<ref name="vem">{{cite web|url=http://ceoandhra.nic.in/GE_2009/AFFIDAVITS/West%20Godavari/179%20UNDI/vetukurivenkatasivaramaraju.pdf|title=Afadavit,Form 26|date=3 April 2009|access-date=7 October 2015|publisher=Election Commission of India}}</ref><ref name="vemweb">{{cite web|url=http://www.vemtechnologies.com/index.html|title=VEM|publisher=VEM Technologies PVT. LTD.|access-date=7 October 2015}}</ref>

===Awards===
Vetukuri Venkata Sivarama Raju was awarded the Bharatiya Chaatra Samsad Foundation, Pune’s Adarsh Yuva Vidhayak Puraskar. Bharatiya Chaatra Samsad Foundation has invited Mr. Raju to address at its sixth annual convention. According to a press release, Mr. Raju had organised installation of 78 RO water plants in 70 villages. Under Neeru-Chettu programme, nearly 30,000 tree guards were provided. The significant initiative is distribution of seed packets with 17 types of seed to 70,000 families.<ref name="Undi MLA for bagging award">{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/CM-pats-Undi-MLA-for-bagging-award/article13991917.ece|title=Undi MLA bags award|date=10 January 2016|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=9 June 2019}}</ref>

===Political Statistics===
{| class="wikitable" |style="background: white; color: black;"
|+ Elections
! Election No.
! Year
! Assembly Constituency
! Opponent
! Total Votes
! Margin
! Result
|-
! 1
| 2009 || Undi ||Pathapati Sarraju (INC)||68,102||15,658||style="background: lightgreen; color: black;"|'''WON'''
|-
! 2
| 2014 || Undi ||Pathapati Sarraju (YSRCP)||101,530||36,231||style="background:lightgreen; color: black;"|'''WON'''
|}

==References==
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{{s-bef | before=Pathapati Sarraju}}
{{s-ttl | title=Representative, Undi Constituency, Andhra Pradesh Assembly | years=2009-present}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Raju, Vetukuri Venkata Siva Rama}}
[[Category:Andhra Pradesh MLAs 2009–2014]]
[[Category:Andhra Pradesh MLAs 2014–2019]]
[[Category:Telugu Desam Party politicians]]
[[Category:1970 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]

Vetukuri Venkata Siva Rama Raju - Revision history

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