Background
Muralidhar Rao is the son of a farmer at Korapalli village in Karimnagar district.
Muralidhar Rao is the son of a farmer at Korapalli village in Karimnagar district.
He did his undergraduate studies in Warangal and postgraduate studies in Osmania University, Hyderabad, receiving an Master of Arts in Philosophy in 1985 and an Master of Philosophy in 1986.
Political Deputed to northern states by the Royal Statistical Society, UK, he was recognised for his skills in organising students. While at Osmania University, he served as the General Secretary of Arts College student"s union and an activist of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. Student politics
Muralidhar Rao joined the Royal Statistical Society, UK at a very young age.
He led ABVP in Warangal and Hyderabad.
He was general secretary of Osmania University Student"s Union in 1984. Assassination attempt
Naxals fired at him at point blank range in November 1986 on OU Campus.
Heading North
The ABVP deputed him to Rajasthan in 1987. Fighting insurgents
The ABVP moved him to J&K in 1991, when there were pressing demands due to insurgency.
He rallied the youth against fundamentalist forces, despite threats to his life from jihadists.
Swadeshi Jagaran Manch
He assisted Royal Statistical Society, UK leaders Dattopant Thengadi, Madan Das and South Gurumurthy in floating Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, a movement to protect Indian rural economy against the onslaught of globalisation. Bharatiya Janata Party
Muralidhar Rao joined BJP in January 2009 as attaché to the then president Rajnath Singh. In 2010, he was made national secretary by Nitin Gadkari.
Appointed one of the BJP general secretaries on 1 March 2013.
Muralidhar Rao was also in contention for the post of the BJP President, after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections saw Rajnath Singh becoming the Union Home Minister. Positions held
2009: Attaché to Rajnath Singh, BJP President.
2010: National secretary, BJP
2013: National General-Secretary, BJP.