Jubilee Hills MLA Maganti Gopinath passes away at 63
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BRS MLA from Hyderabad’s Jubilee Hills Maganti Gopinath passes away at 63
Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) MLA from Jubilee Hills, Maganti Gopinath, passed away at 5.45 am on Sunday (June 8, 2025) at a private hospital in Hyderabad. .
The three-time MLA was admitted to a private hospital in Hyderabad with a heart attack on Thursday (June 5, 2025) and was in the ICU. He has been ailing for some time with kidney-related issues. He was 63 and leaves behind his wife Sunitha and three children, Maganti Vatyalyanadh, Akshara Naga and Dishira.
Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, Leader of the Opposition and BRS chief K. Chandrashekhar Rao, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president B. Mahesh Kumar Goud, Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar, Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar were among those who expressed shock and condoled his death. BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao cancelled his scheduled tour to Nalgonda district today to be with the departed soul’s family.
Maganti Gopinath began his political journey in 1983 with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), quickly rising through the ranks. He served as the Telugu Yuvata State president from 1985 to 1992, a role that put him at the forefront of youth politics.
His early administrative experience included a stint as director of the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) in 1987 and 1988. He was the president of the Consumer Forum from 1988 to 1993 and held various responsibilities as the TDP Hyderabad district president.
His electoral breakthrough came in 2014, when he contested the Telangana Assembly elections from Jubilee Hills on a TDP ticket. He won with a majority of 9,242 votes, defeating MIM’s Naveen Yadav. He then joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), aligning with the State’s ruling party.
In the 2018 elections, Gopinath contested again from Jubilee Hills, this time representing TRS (now BRS), and secured a comfortable victory with a margin of 16,004 votes over Congress candidate P. Vishnuvardhan Reddy. He served as a member of the Public Estimates Committee (PEC) in the Legislative Assembly the same year.
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