It is part of Medak Lok Sabha constituency.

[1][2] It is one of the ten constituencies in the former Medak district, located approximately 64 km from the state capital, Hyderabad.

Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, the first Chief Minister of Telangana, has been the MLA since 2014.

The assembly constituency presently comprises the following mandals:

Members of Legislative Assembly who represented Gajwel:[3]