Kodali Nani

Kodali Sri Venkateswara Rao (commonly known as Nani) is an Indian politician. He is a former member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly (MLA). He represented the Gudivada assembly constituency from 2004 to 2024 in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative assembly.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} He previously served as the Minister for Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Kodali Sri Venkateswara Rao
Kodali Nani during Pressmeet
Member of Legislative Assembly Andhra Pradesh
In office 2004–2024
Chief Minister	Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
Preceded by	Raavi Venkateswara Rao
Succeeded by	Venigandla Ramu
Constituency	Gudivada
Minister for Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Government of Andhra Pradesh
In office 8 June 2019 – 7 April 2022
Governor	E. S. L. Narasimhan Biswabhusan Harichandan
Preceded by	Prathipati Pulla Rao
Succeeded by	Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao
Personal details
Born	Kodali Sri Venkateswara Rao
Citizenship	Indian
Political party	YSR Congress Party (2012–present)
Other political affiliations	Telugu Desam Party (2004–2012)
Occupation	Politician
Nickname	Kodali Nani

Political career

As Member of Legislative assembly

• In the 2004 and 2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative assembly elections, Nani contested as a member of Telugu Desam Party and won as the Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA).^[6][7] with majority of 8862 & 17630 votes respectively.
• In 2012, Nani departed from Telugu Desam Party and joined the YSR Congress Party.^[8]
• In the 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative assembly elections, Nani won as Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA).^[9] with majority of 11537 votes.
• In the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative assembly elections, Nani won again in Gudivada constituency against Devineni Avinash with a majority of 19,479 votes.^[10][11]
• In the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative assembly elections, Nani has contested from YSRCP and lost in the election with 53040 votes in the Gudivada Assembly constituency.^[12][13]

As Minister

• In 2019, Nani took the oath as the Minister for Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs on 8 June and served in the position until 7 April 2022.^{[14][15][16][17][18][19][20]}

Conviction

As per ADR report 2019,^[21] he was convicted in IPC Sections – 152, 353, 426 on 30 July 2012 and sentenced to undergo RI for a period of one year and pay fine of Rs. 1000/- u/s 353 and Rs. 1000/- u/s 426. There are 3 pending cases under 15 different IPC sections against him. He declared total assets of Rs. 14,82,19,33^[22] in affidavit filed by him during 2019 AP Assembly elections.

In 2021, the Andhra Pradesh State Election Commission served show-cause notice to him seeking explanation for his remarks on the election commissioner in derogatory terms.^[23][24]

Filmography

As a producer

Year	Film	Cast
2004	Samba	Jr. NTR, Genelia D'Souza, Bhumika Chawla