Daggubati Purandeswari

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Daggubati Venkateswara Rao
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Daggubati Purandeswari
The Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, Dr. (Smt.) D. Purandeswari addressing at the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), in New Delhi on May 02, 2013.jpg
13th President of the
Bharatiya Janata Party, Andhra Pradesh
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2023
Children2
Parent N. T. Rama Rao (father)
EducationB.A. (Literature) and Graduate in Gemology
Alma mater South Indian Educational Trust Women College (Chennai)
Gemmological Institute of India Profession Political & Social Worker
As of 17 May, 2009
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Daggubati Purandeswari (born 22 April 1959) is an Indian politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. She is the president of Bharatiya Janata Party, Andhra Pradesh. [1] She is currently serving as a Member of Parliament of Lok Sabha representing the Rajahmundry Lok Sabha constituency. [2]

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Early life and education

She was born 22 April 1959 to N. T. Rama Rao and Basavatarakam. She did her schooling from Sacred Heart Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Church Park, Chennai. [3] She is their second daughter and has 7 brothers and 3 sisters. She has a Bachelor of Arts from the South Indian Educational Trust and Women College (Chennai) (renamed as the Bashir Ahmed Sayeed College for Women) in literature in 1979, followed by a Diploma in gemmology at the Gemmological Institute of India in 1996. [4] [3] Later she established Hyderabad Institute of Gem and Jewellery in 1997. She can read, write and speak five languages, English, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and French. She is versatile in the Indian dance form Kuchipudi. [5] She married Daggubati Venkateswara Rao on 9 May 1979 and they have a daughter, Nivedita and son, Hitesh Chenchuram. [6]

Political career

Purandeswari is the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Andhra Pradesh since 2023. [7] She had served as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2009 and MoS in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in 2012. [8]

She represented the Visakhapatnam constituency of Andhra Pradesh as a Member of Parliament for Indian National Congress in the 15th Lok Sabha. [9] She had previously represented the Bapatla constituency in the 14th Lok Sabha from the Indian National Congress. [10] She joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 7 March 2014 after resigning from the Indian National Congress, as a mark of protest against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh that was favoured by the then United Progressive Alliance government. [11]

In 2014, Purandareswari fought the Lok Sabha election on a BJP ticket from Rajampet and lost. [12] She was appointed the BJP Mahila Morcha Prabhari. [13] [14] On July 4, 2023, she was appointed as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Andhra Pradesh. [15]

She has been elected as a Member of Parliament from Rajahmundry Lok Sabha constituency in 2024 Indian General elections. [16]

Her eloquence, articulation and impassioned speeches have earned her the title of the "Sushma Swaraj of the South". [17]

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  4. ↑ ‘Hinduism to me is a way of life’ Indian Express- 11 January 2009
  5. ↑ "Dr. Daggubati Purandeswari". Archived from the original on 17 June 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  6. ↑ "NTR's grandson Hitesh Chenchuram joins YSR Congress". Business Standard India. 27 February 2019.
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  10. ↑ Service, Express News (5 July 2023). "BJP finetunes AP strategy by appointing Daggubati Purandeswari as state president". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  11. ↑ "NTR's daughter D Purandareswari joins BJP". NDTV. 7 March 2014.
  12. ↑ "Rajampet Lok Sabha Election 2024: Get Latest News Updates of Rajampet Lok Sabha Constituency for General Election 2024". The Indian Express. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  13. ↑ "BJP creates OBC morcha ahead of Bihar election".
  14. ↑ "With an eye on Bihar, UP polls, BJP forms OBC Morcha to boost electoral fortunes". 4 July 2015.
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