Ponnam Prabhakar

Ponnam Prabhakar (born 8 May 1967) is an Indian politician and Currently Serving as Minister of Transport and BC Welfare in Telangana.He was a member of 15th Lok Sabha.He was the Working President of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee. He belongs to Indian National Congress and represented the Karimnagar constituency of Andhra Pradesh. He was the youngest Member of Parliament who represented Karimnagar constituency between 2009-14.

Political career

A student leader from his college days, he became Union President of SRR Government Degree and PG College during 1987-1988. He served as district General Secretary of National Students' Union of India (NSUI) from 1987 to 1989. He was also the Convenor of the District Colleges of Karimnagar from 1987 to 1988. He held the position of NSUI State Secretary from 1989 to 1991 and followed by District President of NSUI from 1992 to 1998. He later was elected again as NSUI State President from 1999 to 2002.

He worked as General Secretary of State Youth Congress from 2002 to 2003 and then, worked as Pradesh Congress Committee Media Cell Coordinator from 2002 to 2004. He was made DCMS President and later Chairman of State Markfed. He was elected from Karimnagar as member of parliament to enter 15th Lok Sabha in 2009 on Indian National Congress (INC) ticket. He was a member for various parliamentary committees. He was one of the active participants in Telangana Movement.

After formation of Telangana state in 2014 Ponnam Prabhakar contested from the Karimnagar Lok Sabha seat and lost to BRS candidate B. Vinod Kumar. In 2018 he Contest from Karimnagar Assembly and lost to Trs Candidate Ganguala Kamalakar and in 2019 He contested from Karimnagar kokasabh election and lost to BJP candidate Bandi Sanjay Kumar.

In 2023 Assembly Elections he contested from Husnabad constituency and won with a majority of 19344 votes on BRS candidate Vodithela Sathish Kumar.