Political Timeline:

Hanumanth Rao was twice elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. First from Ramayampet (constituency abolished in 2009) in 2008 and then from Medak in 2009. In 2014, he contested the Malkajgiri Lok Sabha seat as a Telangana Rashtra Samithi candidate and finished in second place. He was the President of the Greater Hyderabad Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) from 2014 to 2016. He was unanimously elected as an MLC from MLAs Quota on 5 March 2017.

On 12 December 2018, he resigned from his Member of Legislative Council position after he won the Malkajgiri Assembly Constituency as a Member of Legislative Assembly third time with a majority of 74,000 votes. Hanumantha Rao tendered his resignation to the BRS party on 22 September 2023, citing dissatisfaction over ticket distribution. BRS Party denied ticket to his son Rohit to contest from Medak Assembly constituency in the upcoming Assembly elections 2023. Later, he, and his son Rohit, joined the Indian National Congress and Hanumantha Rao was nominated to contest on an INC ticket from Malkajgiri in the party’s first list. His son Rohit Rao was named in the first list and will contest on an INC ticket from Medak.