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As the Narendra Modi-led government prepared itself for the vote on the no-confidence motion on Friday, it was Telugu Desam Party's Jayadev Galla who moved the motion.

Though not galore in Delhi may have heard of the Guntur Member of Parliament, he is a millionaire 60 times over and a booming politician with foreign education to boot. TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu wanted 52-year-old Jayadev to open the debate in Lok Sabha, though another MP Kesineni Srinivas originally moved the motion.

The TDP has just 13 minutes assigned to take part in the debate. This shows how much Naidu trusts Galla and not just since he is highly articulate. This indicated he may be nurtured to take on a bigger role.

He is among the rising group of industrialist-politicians in Andhra Pradesh, foreign-educated millionaires who run sizable industrial groups and have get into electoral politics. They are in their late 40s or early 50s.

Jayadev is boss of Amara Raja group of companies, set up by his Non-Resident Indian father who returned to India from the United States three decades ago. In the 2014 elections, Jayadev proclaimed personal assets worth Rs. 683 crores.

Jaydev, hailing from Chittoor is married to Padmavathi, daughter of Telugu film star Krishna and his wife, thus, brings with her economic and political mark that her maternal family has at their bid.

After he entered the family business, Jayadev made Amaron battery the second most popular brand in India and in a few countries in East Asia.

By Sowmya Sangam