Soon after winning the students’ union president post at SRR Degree College in 1987, the only government degree college then in Karimnagar town, Ponnam Prabhakar used to tell his inner circle of friends that becoming MLA at least once in life was his dream.
Three-and-half decades later, he has found his dream fulfilled as he has not only become an MLA, but also a Minister in the Telangana Cabinet. But the journey was not smooth for the 56-year-old politician from undivided Karimnagar district, popularly known by his surname Ponnam.
Mr. Prabhakar is the youngest of the three sons of late Sathaiah Goud and Mallamma. He has two sisters. His simplicity is a trait he inherited from his father, a farmer whose world centred around only his agriculture. Even as numerous groups of students used to visit their house when Prabhakar fiercely fought the student union elections, his father would not ask anything and simply focussed on his farming activity.
