Telangana HC upheld Centre's order revoking Ramesh’s Indian citizenship on the ground of his German citizenship
According to sources Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader, four-time mla from Vemulawada, scion of an illustrious political family and a close aide of BRS chief and ex-Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, Dr Chennamaneni Ramesh was dealt a blow on monday after the telangana High court upheld the Centre’s order revoking his indian citizenship and fined him Rs 30 lakh for misleading the court. Justice B Vijaysen Reddy, while settling the 15-year-old case, directed Ramesh to pay Rs 25 lakh to his congress bete noir and petitioner Aadi srinivas and Rs 5 lakh to the telangana State Legal services Authority.
Meanwhile Ramesh claimed his calling was in germany but his family roots made it a natural choice for him to enter politics. His father C Rajeshwar Rao was a five-time mla from sircilla and a tall Communist leader who participated in the Quit india movement and the uprising against the Nizam’s rule. He later joined the telugu desam party (TDP). His uncle is bjp leader and former Union minister of State, C vidyasagar Rao, who went on to serve as governor of maharashtra between 2014 and 2019.
Moreover the former Vemulawada mla later quit the tdp and joined the BRS (then TRS) in support of the telangana statehood movement even as his stellar academic background helped him grow close to party supremo K Chandrashekar Rao or KCR. Despite retaining the Vemulawada seat in 2014 and 2018, Ramesh was overlooked by the BRS for the november 2023 assembly polls owing to his citizenship troubles. His tenure as advisor to the BRS government on agriculture affairs, with a cabinet rank, also lasted only three months (from august to november 2023) as the BRS lost power to the Congress.