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Telugu Desam Party MP Ram Mohan Naidu is the new Civil Aviation Minister, replacing the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Jyotiraditya Scindia, who has been given charge of the Telecom Ministry.<\/p>\n
Mr Naidu is from Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister-designate N Chandrababu Naidu’s party, which played a key role in ensuring the BJP returns to power after the 2024 Lok Sabha election.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr Naidu, who is also his party’s National General Secretary, contested the 2024 Lok Sabha election from the Srikakulam constituency, a seat he has now won three times in a row.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He beat the YSR Congress Party’s Perada Tilak by nearly three lakh votes.<\/p>\n
Mr Naidu’s father, Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, was the MLA from Andhra Pradesh’s Tekkali and later the MP from Srikakulam; he won the seat four times between 1996 and 2004.<\/p>\n
Mr Yerran Naidu was Rural Development Minister in the United Front government.<\/p>\n
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