Tue May 06 13:00:37 UTC 2025: ## Veteran Telugu Desam Party Leader Sugavasi Palakondarayudu Passes Away
**Bengaluru, India (May 6, 2025)** – Senior Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and four-time MLA Sugavasi Palakondarayudu passed away on Tuesday at a Bengaluru hospital after a period of illness. He was 79.
Palakondarayudu, born in 1946 in Rayachoti, Annamayya district, had a long and distinguished political career. He first won election as an MLA in 1978 representing the Janata Party. He later served as an independent MLA before joining the TDP, where he won the Rajampet Lok Sabha seat in 1984. Most recently, he served two consecutive terms as MLA for the Rayachoti Assembly segment (2014-2019).
His sons also held prominent positions; his eldest son served as Zilla Parishad chairman and vice-chairman, while his younger son was a member of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) trust board during the previous TDP regime.
Tributes poured in from TDP leaders, including party chief N. Chandrababu Naidu, IT Minister Nara Lokesh, and other ministers, who offered their condolences. Palakondarayudu is survived by two sons and a daughter.
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