Palvai Sravanthi Reddy (born 18 April 1973) is an Indian politician from the state of

Telangana Telangana (; ) is a landlocked state in India situated in Southern part of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh-largest state and the twelfth-most populated state in India as per 2011 census. On 2 June 2014, t ...

. She is a member of the

Bharat Rashtra Samithi Bharat Rashtra Samithi ( ; BRS), formerly known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi ( TRS), is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in the state of Telangana. It was founded on 27 April 2001 as by K. Chandrashekar Rao, with a singl ...

party from the

Munugode 'Mungode,' 'Munugodu' or 'Munugode' is a village located in Munugode Mandal in Nalgonda Division of Nalgonda district of Telangana state, India. It is 21 Kilometers westward from Nalgonda town. Munugode village has a population of 10141, of which ...

Assembly constituency. Sravanthi Reddy is the daughter of former Minister and MLA Palvai Govardhan Reddy, who was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly for five terms between 1967 and 1999. Considered close to the Gandhi family, he was a

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member during his sudden demise.

Early life and education

Palvai Sravanthi Reddy was born in Idikuda village, Chandur Mandal in Nalgonda district. She has a dual postgraduate degree in law and management.

Political career

She is an

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member and a practising advocate at the Telangana High Court. She canvassed for her father Palvai Govardhan Reddy for the first time in the year 1994. Her active political career was in 1999 when she served as a campaign manager for her father when he was contesting from

. She has been a PCC member for more than 20 years and an

member since 2005. She had contested the 2014 assembly elections in Telangana, as an independent candidate and stood second with 27,441 votes by defeating BJP candidate G Manohar Reddy who was relegated to the third place, followed by CPI and CPM candidates who secured fourth and fifth places in the election. Congress president Smt.

Sonia Gandhi Sonia Gandhi ('' née'' Maino; born 9 December 1946) is an Indian politician. She is the longest serving president of the Indian National Congress, a social democratic political party, which has governed India for most of its post-independ ...

approved the candidature of Palvai Sravanthi Reddy on September 9, 2022 for the upcoming

by-election. This constituency in Nalgonda district has fallen vacant after the sitting Congress MLA

Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy (born 1 June 1967) is an Indian politician and a former Member of Legislative Assembly of Munugode of Telangana state, ex. Member of Legislative Council and ex. member of the 15th Lok Sabha. He belongs to the Bharat ...

moved to the BJP. She will be soon contesting against former MLA

, who is the official BJP candidate for this by-election.

References

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