V. V. Lakshminarayana

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V. V. Lakshminarayana
Born
Vasagiri Venkata Lakshminarayana

(1965-04-03) 3 April 1965 (age 59)
Other namesJD Lakshminaryana
Occupations
  • Police officer
  • politician
Years active1990–2018
Political partyJai Bharat National party

Vasagiri Venkata Lakshminarayana popularly known as JD Lakshmi Narayana, is an Indian retired police officer and politician from

Visakhapatnam constituency in the 2019 Indian general election from Jana Sena Party
. He has resigned from the Jana Sena Party in 2020.

Early life

He was born on 3 April 1965 in

Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He was an Addl. Director General of Police, Maharashtra cadre from the 1990 batch of Indian Police Service. He secured all India rank 204 in Civil Services.[5]

Career

He worked as a

As a Joint Director of CBI, he carried out Investigations of Obulapuram Mining Corporation (OMC) case and
Disproportionate Assets
case among other 27 high-profile cases.

He is known for his impact speeches and has interacted with more than 30 lakh youth so far. He was an active member of Lead India Foundation which was started with the blessings of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. Sri. V.V. Lakshmi Narayana donated blood 58 times.

Sri. V.V. Lakshmi Narayana has announced that he would adopt villages that voluntarily prohibit alcohol. Following on these lines, he has adopted three villages, Chinnamandadi of Mahabubnagar District, Sahalalaputtuga of Srikakulam District and Seetharamapuram of Vizianagaram District.

He took voluntary retirement in 2018 and extensively toured all the 13 Districts of Andhra Pradesh understanding prominent issues especially those of farmers, youth and women.

Political career

After his tour to all the Districts, he has announced that issues of farmers, youth, women would be his areas of focus, and that zero budget politics would be his primary agenda. Lakshminarayana later met with

Visakhapatnam (Lok Sabha constituency) in the Indian General Elections – 2019. He finished the race by standing in third place. He secured 2,88, 754 votes. He resigned to Janasena party on 30 January 2020 due to some internal reasons such as the party supremo re-entry to films.[15]

He started Jai Bharat National party on Friday 22 December 2023 to bring change in politics. He has filed his nomination from the Visakhapatnam North Assembly constituency for the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.[16]

A foundation by the name Join for Development Foundation has been started under his Chairmanship and is working in the areas of Agriculture, Rural Development, Youth innovations, Environment and related areas. A Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) has been initiated by the Foundation at Yazili, Guntur District. The temple town of Bhadrachalam has been made plastic free with the initiative of the foundation. Dr. Abdul Kalam Innovation festival has been organised and the young innovators have been suitably rewarded and felicitated.[citation needed]

Awards

Narayana has received the Indian police medal in 2006. He also has been awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize by the Minority Commission of Maharashtra. He has been conferred with the Presidents Police Medal for Distinguished Services on 26 January 2017.[17] He has also received "Distinguished Alumnus" award in 2016 from his alma mater NIT Warangal in the category of Distinguished Alumni Public Service Award (DAPSA).

References

  1. ^ "Jagan to stay in jail till 11 June, a day before key elections:NDTV".
  2. ^ "DA case: Jagan's custody extended, Sabitha appears in court". The Telegraph. Calcutta, India. 7 June 2013. Archived from the original on 25 August 2013.
  3. ^ "Security for CBI official probing Jagan case". Deccan Herald. 2 April 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012. Andhra Pradesh has provided 'z' category security to CBI Joint Director V.V. Laxminarayana, who is heading investigations into high profile cases, including an illegal assets case against YSR Congress party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy and the Sohrabuddin encounter case
  4. ^ "V.V. Lakshminarayana transferred to Mumbai". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 8 June 2013.
  5. ^ "About CBI Joint Director VV Lakshminarayana". cyberscrap.blogspot.in. 22 April 2011. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. He feels strongly about corruption. His plus point is his handling of legal issues, especially documentation (since in all the cases he has investigated, the documents seized ran into thousands of pages). He does not get bogged down by work pressure. Till now, he donated his blood 54 times.
  6. ^ "Emaar case: CBI Joint Director briefs Andhra Chief Secretary on probe progress". The Economic Times. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012. CBI Joint Director V V Lakshmi Narayana today met Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary Pankaj Dwivedi and briefed him about the arrest of Principal Secretary (Home) B P Acharya in the Emaar Properties scandal.
  7. ^ "Satyam case: CBI reduces number of witnesses". Rediff.com. 15 June 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2012. Lakshmi Narayana, deputy inspector general of police, CBI said as per the apex court directives, the number of documents supporting the charge sheet which were about 3,067 have also been reduced to a thousand-odd
  8. ^ "Threats against RI atheist teen being investigated". India Today. 29 July 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2012. A team of CBI officials, led by joint director V. V. Lakshmi Narayana, has almost completed its investigations into the alleged illegal mining in the controversial Obulapuram mines in collusion with the officials of the state mining and forest departments
  9. ^ "CBI files chargesheet in Emaar Land scam". The Times of India. 1 February 2012. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2012. CBI today filed its chargesheet against seven persons including Andhra Pradesh home secretary and senior IAS officer B P Acharya and five companies in the case relating to alleged irregularities in land transfer and sale of villas and apartments in an upscale township in Hyderabad
  10. ^ "AP cops grilled, IPS officers plan anti-CBI protest". sunday-guardian.com. 19 February 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2012. The state IPS officials are worried because the Sohrabuddin case has been entrusted with CBI joint director V.V. Lakshminarayana, the chief of the Hyderabad-Karnataka zone
  11. ^ "Sohrabuddin case handed over to Lakshmi Narayana". siasat.com. 16 February 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  12. ^ "Naidu case: CBI collects documents". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2012. CBI Joint Director V.V. Lakshmi Narayana collected from the A.P. High Court on Friday the voluminous documents submitted by Y.S. Vijayamma, MLA, in connection with the petition she filed seeking a probe against former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his associates for various irregularities allegedly committed by them
  13. ^ "AP: CBI files FIR against Jagan, Emaar". Rediff.com. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  14. ^ "Ending speculations,ex-cbi JD Lakshmi Narayana joins Pawan Kalyan's Jana Sena". The News Minute. 17 March 2019.
  15. ISSN 0971-751X
    . Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  16. . Retrieved 26 April 2024.
  17. ^ JD Lakshmi Narayana Supporters (16 April 2018), CBI JD Lakshmi Narayana Accomplishments | Life of an IPS Officer | Best Fan made motivational video, retrieved 24 April 2019

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