ARBL is one of the leading manufacturers of advanced lead acid batteries in India. 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). 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. Career Īfter his graduation, Jay worked as an international sales executive at GNB Battery Technologies in USA. One of the wealthiest politicians in India, Galla declared assets of ₹683 crore (US$86 million) in the 2014 general elections. He is known to be very close to his brother-in-law, actor Mahesh Babu. They have two children – Siddharth Galla, a politician and Ashok Galla, an actor. Jay married Padmavathi Ghattamaneni, daughter of prominent Indian actor Krishna Ghattamaneni on 26 June 1991. He studied politics and economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he joined Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. His grandfather Paturi Rajagopala Naidu was a freedom fighter, close associate of Acharya N G Ranga and a former Indian parliamentarian.Īlong with his parents, Jayadev moved to US, where he lived for around 22 years. His mother Aruna Kumari is a former MLA from Chandragiri constituency and was a minister in the Andhra Pradesh state government for several years. His father is an industrialist who founded the Amara Raja Group. Galla Jayadev was born in Diguvamagham, Andhra Pradesh to Ramachandra Naidu and Aruna Kumari. Jayadev is a member of 16th and 17th Lok Sabha of India representing from Guntur Lok Sabha constituency and a member of Telugu Desam Party. He is the managing director of Amara Raja Group and TDP Parliamentary Party Leader. Galla Jayadev (born 24 March 1966), also known as Jay Galla, is an Indian politician and industrialist in India.
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