Gokaraju Ganga Raju

Gokaraju Ganga Raju (Telugu: గోకరాజు గంగరాజు) is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Narsapuram (Lok Sabha constituency), Andhra Pradesh. He won the Indian general election, 2014 being a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate.^[1] He is also the founder of Laila Group of Companies. Recently, he was elected as Vice-President to Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) South Zone.

Hailing from an agricultural family, reputed for service to the society, Dr Ganga Raju, a leading industrialist, recognized as a person serving the society. He has dedicated himself to serving the society through Vishva Hindu Parishad and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. One of his friends who helped each other were: MLA, Varada Prasad. He graduated in Bachelor of Pharmacy from Andhra University in 1970,

His father, Late Shri Gokaraju Ranga Raju, served as an MLA from Undi constituency, ZP Vice Chairman of West Godavari District and also served Lord Balaji as the Chairman of Board of trustees, TTD, twice.

Being a sportsman and sports enthusiast, Dr Ganga Raju is the Secretary of Andhra Cricket Association, Chairman of Financial Committee of BCCI and also the Member of Governing Council of Indian Premier League run by BCCI. Recently, Raju was elected as Vice-President to Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI).^[2]

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Bharatiya Janata Party
Presidents	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) Lal Krishna Advani (1986–91) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Lal Krishna Advani (1993–98) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Lal Krishna Advani (2004–06) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–present)
Current Vice Presidents	Satya Pal Malik Parsottambhai Rupala Prabhat Jha Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Renu Devi Dinesh Sharma Om Prakash Mathur Shyam Jaju Avinash Rai Khanna
Other prominent leaders	Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Yashwant Sinha Subramanian Swamy Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Sushil Kumar Modi Himanta Biswa Sarma
Prime Ministers	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi
Current Chief ministers	Vijay Rupani Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Laxmikant Parsekar Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das Sarbananda Sonowal
Spokespersons	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M. J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Siddharth Nath Singh Nalin Kohli Shaina NC Sambit Patra Anil Baluni GVL Narsimha Rao Gopal Krishna Agarwal
General Secretaries	P. Muralidhar Rao Kailash Vijayvargiya Muralidhar Rao Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Anil Jain Ram Lal Arun Singh
Morcha	Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP SC Morcha BJP ST Morcha BJP OBC Morcha BJP Minority Morcha BJP Kisan Morcha
Related organisations	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh
Others	Hindutva Integral humanism

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Andhra Pradesh State
GE 2014	Ashok Gajapati Raju Butta Renuka Galla Jayadev Gokaraju Ganga Raju J. C. Diwakar Reddy Kambhampati Hari Babu Kesineni Srinivas Konakalla Narayana Rao Kothapalli Geetha Kristappa Nimmala Maganti Venkateswara Rao Malyadri Sriram Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy Murali Mohan Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao Naramalli Sivaprasad P. V. Midhun Reddy Pandula Ravindra Babu Rammohan Naidu Kinjarapu Rayapati Sambasiva Rao S. P. Y. Reddy Thota Narasimham Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli Y S Avinash Reddy Y. V. Subba Reddy
15th LS members 17th LS members Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from States AP BH CT GA GJ HR HP JK JH KL KA MP MH OR PB RJ TN TG UP UT WB Northeast AR AS MN ML MZ NL SK TR Union Territories AN CH DN DD LD DL PY