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Kanumuru Raghu Rama Krishna Raju (born 14 May 1962) is an Indian industrialist and politician who is serving as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 17th Lok Sabha from Narasapuram constituency, Andhra Pradesh. He won the 2019 Indian general election as a Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party(YSRCP) candidate.
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.
Raghu Rama Krishna Raju is a politician from YSR Congress Party (YSRCP). He has quit the party in 2014 after not being able to secure the party's nomination for 2014 Lok Sabha elections and has joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In 2018, he quit BJP and joined Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Subsequently, in March 2019, he joined back YSRCP.
He has contested in the 2019 elections from the Narasapuram Lok Sabha constituency as a YSRCP candidate. He has won the election securing 38.11% votes polled with a majority of 31,909 votes against TDP's Vetukuri Venkata Siva Rama Raju.
Raju is an outspoken critic of his party and its chief and current chief minister, Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. 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 from him 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.