Daggubati Purandheswari

Daggubati Purandeswari is an Indian politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh and the State President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Andhra Pradesh since 2023. 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.

She represented the Visakhapatnam constituency of Andhra Pradesh as a Member of Parliament of Indian National Congress in the 15th Lok Sabha of India. She had previously represented the Bapatla constituency in the 14th Lok Sabha from the Indian National Congress. 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.

In 2014, she fought the Lok Sabha election on a BJP ticket from Rajampet and lost. Purandareswari was appointed BJP Mahila Morcha Prabhari.[3][4] She continues as the appointed state in-charge of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Odisha unit since 13 November 2020. On July 4, 2023, the central leadership of the BJP appointed her as the President of the Andhra Pradesh BJP.

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

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