Nagulapalli Dhanalakshmi (born 6 December 1984) is an Indian politician from

East Godavari district East Godavari is a district in the Coastal Andhra region of Andhra Pradesh, India. Its district headquarters is at Rajahmundry. As of census 2011, it became the most populous district of the state with a population of 5,151,549. In the Madras Pre ...

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

Personal life

She is born in 1984 to Nagulapalli Raghava and Veerabbayi Dora in Gondolu village of Addateegala mandal in the then East Godavari district. She completed her B.A at SKR College in

Rajahmundry Rajahmundry, officially known as Rajamahendravaram, is a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and District headquarters of East Godavari district. It is the sixth most populated city in the state. During British rule, the District of Rajah ...

in 2011 and later did her B.Ed. She was a teacher at the Girijan Welfare residential school in Errampalem. Her mother Nagulapalli Raghava is elected as a sarpanch of Gondolu Panchayat for the third time in 2021.

Career

Dhanalakshmi became a first-time MLA in 2019. She resigned her job as a teacher in June 2018 to enter politics. She is elected to the

Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly or Andhra Pradesh Śāsana Sabha is the lower house of the Andhra Pradesh Legislature. The Legislative Assembly consists of 175 members which are elected by adult universal suffrage under the first-p ...

representing

YSR Congress Party The Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP or YCP; ) is an Indian regional political party based in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Its president Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy serves as the state's chief minister. It is currently the fifth la ...

(YSRCP) in the 2019 Assembly election from Rampachodavaram constituency of East Godavari district defeating

Telugu Desam Party The Telugu Desam Party (; TDP) is an Indian regional political party operating in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana at the state and central level. Since its founding by N. T. Rama Rao (often referred to as NTR) on 29 March 1982, the party has fo ...

candidate Vanthala Rajeswari by 39,206 vote

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