1. Jayadev Gala – Telgu Desham Party Member of Parliament from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh Total Net Worth 683 Crore

                                                                                                                       

Galla Jayadev

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Galla Jayadev
Member of Parliament - Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office May 2014
Constituency	Guntur
Personal details
Born	Diguvamagham, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India
Political party	Telugu Desam Party
Spouse(s)	Padmavathi Galla (1991 – Present)
Relations	Ramachandra Naidu Galla (father) Aruna Kumari Galla (mother) Paturi Rajagopala Naidu (grandfather) Krishna Ghattamaneni (father-in-law) Ramesh Babu (brother-in-law) Mahesh Babu (brother-in-law) Manjula Swaroop (sister-in-law)
Children	2
Residence	Guntur Hyderabad Tirupati
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Religion	Hindu
Website	https://facebook.com/jayadev.galla

Jayadev Galla also known as Jay Galla or Galla Jayadev is an Indian Politician and business man.^[1] He is the Managing Director of Amara Raja Group.^[2] On 8 March 2014, he joined the Telugu Desam Party and won the 2014 Lok Sabha Election from Guntur (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[3]

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Personal life
• 3 Career
• 4 References

Early life

Jayadev was born in Diguvamagham, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh to Ramachandra Naidu Galla and Aruna Kumari Galla. His father is an industrialist who founded the Amara Raja Group. His mother Aruna Kumari Galla is a former MLA from Chandragiri consistuency and was also a minister in the Andhra Pradesh state government. His grandfather Paturi Rajagopala Naidu was a former Indian parliamentarian. Along with his parents, Jayadev moved to USA, where he lived for around 22 years.^[4] He studied politics and economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he joined Lambda Chi Alpha.^[5][6]

Personal life

Jay married Padmavathi Ghattamaneni, daughter of prominent Telugu film actor Krishna on June 26, 1991.^[7] They have two children – Siddharth Galla and Ashok Galla. He is known to be very close to his brother-in-law, Telugu actor Mahesh Babu.^[8][9]
One of the wealthiest politicians in India, Galla declared assets of ₹683 crore (US$100 million) in the 2014 general elections.^[10]

Career

After his graduation, Jay worked as an international sales executive at GNB Battery Technologies in USA. On his return from the United States in 1992, he took up the task of setting up the sales and service network for the industrial battery division of Amara Raja.^[11] In 1992 along with his father Ramachandra Naidu Galla started looking at automotive batteries as viable business and tied up with Johnson Controls the US based giant and gave then 26% stake in their company Amara Raja to start Amara Raja Batteries Limited (ARBL). ARBL is one of the leading manufacturer of Advanced Lead Acid batteries in India.^[12] He took over as the Managing Director of Amara Raja Batteries in 2003 from his father. Of late he has been trying to get into the steps of his mother by entering into politics.He contested 16th Lok Sabha election from the Guntur Constituency in Andhra Pradesh and won with a big margin .^[13]