Daggubati Purandeswari (born 22 April 1956, as per her Lok Sabha record) is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh and the daughter of actor and former Chief Minister N. T. Rama Rao. She has been a Member of Parliament from Rajahmundry since 2024 for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and earlier represented Bapatla and Visakhapatnam as a Congress MP. She served as Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for Commerce and Industry, and as president of the A
Daggubati Purandeswari
D. Purandeswari
22 Apr
Chennai (madras), Tamil Nadu, India
Politician (Lok Sabha MP, Rajahmundry); Former Union Minister Of State
Daggubati Venkateswara Rao (m. 1979)
2004–present
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (since 2024); BJP National Vice-President
Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad Institute of Gem and Jewellery (founder)
Married
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Purandeswari won the Bapatla Lok Sabha seat for the Indian National Congress in 2004 and Visakhapatnam in 2009. She served as Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development and, from 2012, as Minister of State for Commerce and Industry.
On 7 March 2014 she resigned from the Congress in protest against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and joined the BJP. She lost the Rajampet seat in 2014 and Visakhapatnam in 2019. The party made her a national general secretary and later a national vice-president, and in July 2023 she became president of the Andhra Pradesh BJP, serving until June 2025.
In the 2024 general election, contested in alliance with the TDP and Jana Sena, she won Rajahmundry, defeating YSRCP candidate Guduri Srinivas by 2,39,139 votes.
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