Sujana Chowdary
Indian politician
Yalamanchili Satyanarayana Chowdary (born 2 June 1961), popularly known as Sujana Chowdary, is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He is a former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, elected from the Telugu Desam Party and later moved to Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Indian union Minister of State for Science, Technology from 9 November 2014 to 8 March 2018.
Sujana Chowdary contested and won the 2024 Elections from Vijayawada West Assembly Constituency and won with a margin of 47,032 votes.
Early life and career
Sujana Chowdary was born in Kanchikacherla village in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh. He married Padmaja on 6 August 1989. The couple have two children, Y. S. Karthik and Y. Naga Chandini. He graduated in 1984 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology in Hyderabad. He completed his master's degree in Machine Tool Engineering from the PSG College of Technology in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. In 1986, he founded the Sujana Group of Companies and headed the Hyderabad-based group of Industries before retiring from business to join politics.
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