Who is Chennamaneni Ramesh? Born in political family, studied in Germany & now in citizenship trouble
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader Chennamaneni Ramesh has run into trouble after he concealed his German citizenship and misled the judiciary about it, resulting in him being slapped with a fine of Rs 30 lakh and censure from the Telangana High Court.
Being an Indian citizen is among the foremost requisites to be elected to a state or central legislature (Parliament) in the country.
Even as his Indian citizenship has been in dispute for 15 years now, Ramesh represented the Vemulawada assembly constituency till 2023, first elected in 2009 on a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) ticket.
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It was Congress’ Adi Srinivas, defeated by Ramesh at Vemulawada four times till 2018, who had reached out to the central government to annull his rival’s Ind...