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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has appointed new get together chiefs for 4 states on Tuesday. As reported by PTI, on this rejig, principally posts had been allotted to those that had lately joined the BJP from different events. Some of those that had been allotted posts are — Sunil Jakhar and D Purandeswari – who left Congress, and Etela Rajender – who left BRS.
Former Union minister D Purandeswari was appointed because the BJP president of Andhra Pradesh changing Somu Veerraju. Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh, D Purandeswari is considered the “Sushma Swaraj of the South” attributable to her impassioned speeches.
Purandeswari represented the Visakhapatnam constituency of Andhra Pradesh as an MLA of Congress within the fifteenth Lok Sabha of India and defeated opponent, Palla Srinivasa Rao of the Telugu Desam Party.
She joined BJP on March 7, 2014, after resigning from the Indian National Congress in protest towards the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh that was favoured by the then United Progressive Alliance authorities.
She continues because the appointed state in cost of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Odisha unit since 13 November 2020. Now, she has been appointed the President of Andhra Pradesh by BJP.
Purandeswari was born to NT Rama Rao and Basavatarakam and did her education in Chennai. She went on to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in literature in 1979 from the South Indian Educational Trust and Women’s College, Chennai which was renamed the Bashir Ahmed Sayeed College for Women. She then did a Diploma in gemmology on the Gemological Institute of India in 1996.
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She married Daggubati Venkateswara Rao on May 9, 1979, they usually have two youngsters, daughter, Nivedita and son Hitesh Chenchuram.
Purandeswari is a sister to Nandamuri Harikrishna and Nandamuri Balakrishna, sister-in-law to N Chandrababu Naidu, niece to N Trivikrama Rao, aunt to Nara Lokesh and Nandamuri Kalyan Ram, NT Rama Rao Jr, Nandamuri Suhasini and Taraka Ratna.
