MLA Chennamaneni Ramesh appointed as TS govt advisor on agri affairs

Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Friday appointed Vemulawada BRS MLA Chennamaneni Ramesh as adviser to the state government on agriculture with Cabinet minister rank for a period of five years.

Ramesh, whose German citizenship case is pending in the High Court, was recently denied a BRS ticket. Ramesh won Assembly polls four times from Vemulawada constituency. He won on a TD ticket in 2009, and quit the seat to join the join TRS (now BRS) in 2010 and won a



bypoll the same year. Subsequently, he won the 2014 and 2018 elections.

Ramesh obtained his PhD in agriculture economics from Humboldt University of Berlin in 1987. A press release issued by the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) said that Ramesh as a research student and professor in agriculture possessed vast knowledge in agriculture which the government wanted to utilise for the benefit of the state and the farmers.