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Mekatoti Sucharitha
Sucharitha in 2019
Minister of Home Affairs
Government of Andhra Pradesh
In office
8 Jun 2019 – 7 April 2022
GovernorE. S. L. Narasimhan
Biswabhusan Harichandan
Chief MinisterY. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
Preceded byNimmakayala Chinarajappa
Succeeded byTaneti Vanitha
Member of Legislative Assembly
Andhra Pradesh
In office
2019–2024
Preceded byRavela Kishore Babu
Succeeded byBurla Ramanjaneyulu
ConstituencyPrathipadu
In office
2009–2014
Preceded byRavi Venkata Ramana
Succeeded byRavela Kishore Babu
ConstituencyPrathipadu
Personal details
Born (1972-12-25) 25 December 1972 (age 51)
Phirangipuram
Political partyYSR Congress Party
Other political
affiliations
Indian National Congress
Residence(s)Brodipet, Guntur 522002

Mekathoti Sucharitha[1] is an Indian politician who is the former Minister of Home Affairs and Disaster Management of Andhra Pradesh in Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy cabinet.[2][3] She is a member of YSR Congress Party.

Political career

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Sucharitha was elected as an MLA from Prathipadu segment for the first time in 2009 on Congress ticket. She was inducted into the Congress by the late Dr. Y S Rajashekara Reddy (YSR) after he spotted her during his historic ‘padayatra’ in 2003. Groomed by YSR during his tenure as chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh, Sucharitha's rise to the cabinet rank began in 2006 when she won the Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies (ZPTC) election from Phirangipuram in Guntur as a Congress candidate. She served for two years as ZPTC member.

In 2009, YSR allotted her the party ticket for Prathipadu Assembly Constituency in Guntur district from where she won comfortably. After YSR's death in September 2009, she swore allegiance to Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and resigned from Congress when Jagan launched YSRCP in March 2011. She again won from the seat on a YSRCP ticket in the by-elections held in May 2012.

Despite conceding her seat to the TDP in 2014, Sucharitha's loyalty to the YSR family was rewarded with Jagan again allotting her the YSRCP ticket in the 2019 assembly elections.[4] She defeated two heavyweights — former minister D Manikya Vara Prasad of the TDP and former TDP minister Ravela Kishore Babu, who joined Jana Sena Party.

Personal life

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Sucharitha, who hails from Phirangipuram in Guntur, is married to IRS officer M Dayasagar who is now posted as Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeal) in Jabalpur, Madhyapradesh.[citation needed] Her father N Anka Rao was a medical doctor at a government hospital. He later ran a clinic in Phirangipuram. She completed her BA in Political Science in 1990.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ "Andhra Pradesh 2024". MyNeta.
  2. ^ "Mekathoti Sucharita, the Dalit(christian) woman Home Minister of Andhra Pradesh". The New Indian Express. Hyderabad. 9 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Mekatoti Sucharita set to create history". The Hindu. Guntur. 8 June 2019.[dead link]
  4. ^ "Jagan Reddy appoints Dalit woman as home minister of Andhra Pradesh". Hindustan times. 8 June 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2019.