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Lokesh won the "Skoch Person of the Year" award in 2018, for his innovative use of technology while resolving issues related to drinking water supply, transparency in governance, and other activities under his Panchayati Raj portfolio.

In May 2018, Lokesh won the Business World magazine "Digital Leader of the Year" at the Businessworld Digital India summit in New Delhi. The award recognises the best utilisation of technology in governance. The same year, the Kalam Centre for Livable Planet Earth and Sustainable Development, recognised Lokesh's efforts in the successful integration of technology in rural governance and awarded the innovation award to Andhra Pradesh in the Panchayat Raj and Rural Development category. Lokesh was also awarded the Kalam Innovation in Governance Award- in 2018.

In September 2018, Lokesh was invited to represent India at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Entrepreneurship Summit and Annual Meeting of World Champions in Tianjin, China. In the following month, Lokesh became the only Indian politician to be nominated to the WEF's Network of Global Future Councils (NGFC), an interdisciplinary knowledge group that deliberates on agile governance in terms of emerging technologies and business models.

Lokesh became cabinet minister for information technology, Panchayati Raj and rural development in Andhra Pradesh in 2017.

In 2014, he became Party general secretary, a member of the Politburo, the highest decision-making body of the party. Lokesh managed the party, interacted with party workers and citizens, and helped set the Party policies and strategy.

Lokesh joined the TDP in May 2013, and worked on the election strategy for the 2014 General Elections. He sought election as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Mangalagiri constituency in the 2019 Andhra Pradesh assembly elections and lost to Alla Ramakrishna Reddy of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP). However, he is still a member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council.

Lokesh claimed in January 2013 that Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party derived the Direct Benefit Transfer System from a TDP proposal submitted to the central government.

Lokesh is credited with successfully managing the TDP party's membership drive that added five million members. The digital technology used by the onboarding team – tablets, live data feeds and a real-time dashboard – was probably the first such use for enrolling and managing party members in the country. In 2017, Chandrababu Naidu inducted Lokesh as an MLC and a month later he was appointed the Cabinet minister for IT, Panchayathi Raj and Rural Development.

In 2007, Lokesh married Brahmani his first cousin on maternal side and daughter of Indian film actor and politician Nandamuri Balakrishna The couple has a son Nara Devansh.