Mekathoti Sucharitha Explained

Mekatoti Sucharitha
Birth Date:25 December 1972
Birth Place:Phirangipuram
Residence:Brodipet, Guntur 522002
Office:Minister of Home Affairs
Government of Andhra Pradesh
Term Start:8 Jun 2019
Term End:7 April 2022
Governor:E. S. L. Narasimhan
Biswabhusan Harichandan
1Blankname:Chief Minister
1Namedata:Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
Predecessor:Nimmakayala Chinarajappa
Successor:Taneti Vanitha
Office1:Member of Legislative Assembly
Andhra Pradesh
Constituency1:Prathipadu
Term Start1:2019
Term End1:2024
Predecessor1:Ravela Kishore Babu
Constituency2:Prathipadu
Term Start2:2009
Term End2:2014
Predecessor2:Ravi Venkata Ramana
Successor2:Ravela Kishore Babu
Party:YSR Congress Party
Otherparty:Indian National Congress

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

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

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. 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.

Notes and References

  1. News: Andhra Pradesh 2024. MyNeta. en.
  2. News: Mekathoti Sucharita, the Dalit(christian) woman Home Minister of Andhra Pradesh. The New Indian Express. 9 June 2019. Hyderabad.
  3. News: Mekatoti Sucharita set to create history. The Hindu. 8 June 2019. Guntur .
  4. Web site: Jagan Reddy appoints Dalit woman as home minister of Andhra Pradesh. 2019-06-08. Hindustan times. en. 2019-06-11.