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Indian politician

Krishna Prasad Tenneti

Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 2024
Preceded by	Nandigam Suresh
Constituency	Bapatla

Personal details
Born	(1960-03-02) 2 March 1960 (age 64)
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Telugu Desam Party
Spouse	Sirisha Kumari Tenneti (m. 1990)
Parents	Subbaiah Tenneti (father) Vijaya Lakshmi Tenneti (mother)
Residence(s)	Hyderabad, Telangana
Education	M.B.A. B.Tech
Alma mater	I.I.M. Ahmedabad N I.T. Warangal
Occupation	I.P.S. Officer (Retd.), Politician
Awards	Police Medal President's Police Medal
Military service
Rank	Director General of Police

Krishna Prasad Tenneti (born 2 March 1960) is an Indian politician, a retired IPS officer and the elected candidate for Lok Sabha from the Bapatla Lok Sabha constituency as a Member of the Parliament of the 18th Lok Sabha and also serves as a member of the panel of chairpersons. He is a member of the Telugu Desam Party.

He is a committee member of the Atma Nirbhar Skill Summit 2020. He also serves as a mentor for venture funding and incubation organizations like Image. He is an advisor for the Bharat Education Excellence Award 2025.

Early life and education

He was born in 1960 in Hyderabad, his family hails from Razole, East Godavari, and belongs to the Dalit community. His father's name was Late Subbaiah Tenneti and his mother’s name was Vijaya Laxmi Tenneti who were both teachers. He is married to Sirisha Kumari Tenneti, who is an Intellectual Property Attorney advocate and he has two daughters.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal with Mechanical Engineering Stream, and a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad in 1985. He also obtained an LLB degree from Osmania University in 2016 and is pursuing his PhD in Sustainable Urban Mobility.

Career

He is an Indian Police Service officer of 1986 belonging to the Andhra Pradesh cadre until 2014 and the Telangana cadre from 2014 until his retirement. He is on the Board of Governors, at the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur and Director of APPA. He adopted Yerravalli village and donated 42 bicycles to girl children to help them pursue higher education.

He runs an NGO called Krishna Prasad Foundation. Through the Foundation, he also hosted Atma Nirbhar Skill Summit to help promote entrepreneurship and worked to mobilise medical equipment during the COVID with the support of American India Foundation.

Publications

In 2006, he authored Trafficking in Persons: Tip of the Iceberg, published by the United Nations(UNIFEM). His research highlighted that children outside the schooling system are vulnerable to trafficking, leading to the Right to Education Act 2009 (RTE).
In 2002, he authored a document Malupu, a poverty alleviation program that provided up-skilling to 162,000 BPL leather artisans in CLRI Madras.