Kimidi Mrunalini | |
Birth Date: | 1958 |
Birth Place: | Cheepurupalli |
Nationality: | Indian |
Occupation: | Politician |
Spouse: | Kimidi Ganapathi Rao |
Party: | Telugu Desam Party |
Kimidi Mrunalini (born 5 March 1958) is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh who won the 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election from Cheepurupalli Constituency in Vizianagaram district on TDP ticket.[1]
Mrunalini is from Cheepurupalli. She married Kimidi Ganapathi Rao, also a politician and former MLA.[2] Her brother-in-law Kimidi Kala Venkata Rao and her son Nagarjuna, are also in politics.[3] [4] [5]
Mrunalini won for the first time as MLA in 2014 from Cheepurupalli Constituency defeating senior Congress leader Botsa Satyanarayana by a margin of 20,842 votes. She was also the Rural Development Minister in the Telugu Desam government from 2014 but was dropped in April 2017 while her brother-in-law Kimidi Kala Venkata Rao was inducted as a minister.[6] [7] [8] She was a former Vizianagaram Zilla Parishad chairperson.[9]