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Kodela Sivaprasada Rao elected as AP Speaker

The 62-year-old Kodela has been a minister in Cabinets of late NT Rama Rao and N Chandrababu Naidu

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BS Reporter Hyderabad
Last Updated : Jun 20 2014 | 5:01 PM IST
Telugu Desam Party legislator Kodela Sivaprasada Rao has been unanimously elected as the first Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly post bifurcation of the state.

The 62-year-old Kodela is a general surgeon by profession and has been a minister in the Cabinets of late NT Rama Rao and N Chandrababu Naidu.

He later declared YSR Congress Legislature Party leader, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, as the leader of the Opposition in the House.

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First Published: Jun 20 2014 | 4:34 PM IST

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