Meet Katipally Venkata Ramana Reddy - the businessman-politician who beat the BRS' K Chandrasekhar Rao, the departing Chief Minister, and his successor, the Congress' Revanth Reddy.
Rajender was earlier with the BRS, but he left the party after the chief minister dismissed him from the cabinet. He served as the minister of finance, and health in the KCR government.