Lakshmi Parvathi

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N. T. Rama Rao
(m. 1993;died 1996)
Lakshmi Parvathi
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Member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
1996–1999
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Lakshmi Parvathi (born 14 September 1955) is an Andhra politician and widow of N. T. Rama Rao. She was previously married to a harikatha artist Veeragandham Venkata Subba Rao. [1] [2] [3] Later, she was separated from him and started living together with Rama Rao who officially married her in 1993. [4]

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Education

Lakshmi Parvathi completed her education in Telugu Literature from Telugu University of Telangana in the year 2000.[ citation needed ]

Political career

She has been active in politics after marrying NTR. After the death of N. T. Rama Rao, she founded NTR Telugu Desam Party in 1995 by elections. Lakshmi Parvathi won as MLA from Pathapatnam (Assembly constituency) on behalf of NTRTDP with the support of Bharatiya Janata Party. [5] 42 constituencies candidates were launched by NTR (TDP) in 1996. Even after winning 3,249,267 votes in the elections the party did not win a single seat. She later joined Indian National Congress party. Currently, she is a member of YSR Congress Party. [6]

She contested from Sompeta Assembly constituency and Eluru Assembly constituency constituencies for the elections to the Andhra Pradesh assembly in 1999 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. She lost both the seats. She polled a mere 1,500 votes in Eluru. [7]

Later life

Parvathi has been the incumbent chair of Telugu and Sanskrit Academy since her appointment on 6 November 2019. [8] She made her acting debut in the 2021 film Radhakrishna, which was about the traditional handicraft of Koyya dolls (Koyya Bommalu). [9] [10]

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