Kinjarapu Ram Mohan NaiduFrom infopedia the free encyclopedia

Naidu entered politics in 2012 after the death of his father.[7] He now represents Srikakulam Parliamentary constituency. He was made the MP constituency in charge in 2013. In 2014, he contested the elections for Srikakulam Constituency and won with a margin of 127,576 votes.[8] Kinjarupu is the second youngest Member of Parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha. He introduced a private members bill to draw the attention of the centre towards Andhra Pradesh Railway Zone with Visakhapatnam as its headquarters.[9][10] In the 2024 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh, he represented TDP and won by a majority of 3,27,901 votes from the Srikakulam Lok Sabha constituency.[11][12][13] He is an incumbent Union Minister of Civil Aviation, India.[14][15]

Performance in Parliament
Performance in the Lok Sabha, 2019-20[16]

MP performance parameters (2019–20)    Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu
Attendance in parliament    90%, against state average 79% and National average 84%
Questions raised    69, against state average 49 and National Average 49
Debates Participated    34, against a state average 13 and National Average 14.5
Private Member Bills    0, against state average 0 and National Average 0.3
Number of criminal cases    None
Parliamentary Committees
He is a member of the standing committee on Railways and Home Affairs, Consultative Committee on Ministry of Tourism and Culture and in the Committee on Welfare of other Backward Classes and Official Language Department in the 16th Lok Sabha.[17]

At the United Nations
Kinjarapu has represented India at the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly in the 22nd meeting of the first committee on Disarmament. He emphasized on India's commitment to protecting the ideals of the UN charter and international peace through genuine pursuit for multilateralism. On behalf of India, he attached importance to productive measures in Nuclear Disarmament and Non- Proliferation in all aspects at the United Nations.[18]

Politics For Impact
Kinjarapu believes youth has a major role to play in politics, and politics isn't just about elections but, it's about solving the problems of people. With the same idea, he started an internship program, “Politics for Impact” to increase the opportunity for the youth to participate in politics and give them exposure to governance. 210 Students from over 16 states and 130 colleges had applied for the internship out of which 18 students were selected to work on issues in his constituency for a period of 2 months.[19]

As the Minister for Civil Aviation

On 10 June 2024, Naidu was allocated the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

Electoral history
Election results
Year    Office    Constituency    Party    Votes    %    Opponent    Party    Votes    %    Result    Ref
2014    MP    Srikakulam    Telugu Desam Party        556,163    52.90    Reddy Shanthi    YSR Congress Party        428,591    40.76    Won    [20]
2019    534,544    46.19    Duvvada Srinivas    527,891    45.61    Won
2024    754,328    61.05    Tilak Perada    426,427    34.51    Won
2024 Indian General Election 2024 Member of Union Council of Ministers in 18th Lok Sabha and Youngest Elected from Andhra Pradesh 2024.[4]

Policy positions
In October 2019, he wrote an article in The News Minute strongly criticizing the Andhra Pradesh government under Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy for its sand mining policy. After coming to power in May 2019, sand mining was banned for more than 3 months until a new policy was put in place in September 2019. He wrote on how this policy "ended up putting more than 20 lakh laborers out of their daily jobs and caused deep pain to their families" and how it "brought the construction industry to a standstill for 3 months."