Vakiti Sunitha Laxma Reddy | |
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| Cabinet Minister for Women welfare, Child welfare, Disabled Welfare, SHGs, Indira Kranthi Patham, Pensions | |
| In office 1 December 2010 – 2014 | |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 1999–2014 | |
| Constituency | Narsapur |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 April 1968 Gomaram, Shivampet Mandal, Telangana, India |
| Political party | Telangana Rashtra Samithi |
| Spouse | Late Sri Vakiti Laxma Reddy |
| Children | Srinivas Reddy, Shashidhar Reddy |
| Residence(s) | Gomaram, Shivampet Mandal, Medak District. |
Vakiti Sunitha Laxma Reddy was elected as Congress Party MLA from Narsapur Assembly Constituency, Medak District of Telangana. She was elected for three terms from the same constituency. She served as Minister for Minor Irrigation in the cabinets led by Dr. Y.S. Raja Sekhar Reddy and K. Rosaiah. In the recent reshuffling and reformation of the cabinet by N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, Sunitha Laxma Reddy was allocated the portfolio of Indira Kranthi Yojana and Pensions. She contested 2014 by poll from Medak (Lok Sabha constituency) being Congress candidate and lost.[1]
On 3 April 2019, she joined TRS Party at the public meeting in Medak parliamentary constituency.
Present: Telangana government appointed Vakiti Sunitha Lakshma Reddy as the chairperson and the members of women's commission on 27 December 2020.[2][3]
Sunitha was also the former minister of women development and child welfare in Andhra Pradesh who has now taken the charge of being the Chairperson of the women's commission.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi president and Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on 25 October 2023 announced the candidature of Vakiti Sunitha Lakshma Reddy for Narsapur assembly constituency for 2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election to be held on November 30.[4]
References
- ↑ The New Indian Express (28 August 2014). "Three Reddys and a Lok Sabha Constituency". Archived from the original on 27 October 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
- ↑ The Indian Express (28 December 2020). "Telangana gets a fully functional Women's Commission after 2.5 years". Archived from the original on 27 October 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
- ↑ "A Women's Commission for Telangana, at last". 28 December 2020. Archived from the original on 27 October 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
- ↑ Telangana Today (25 October 2023). "CM announces Sunitha Laxma Reddy as Narsapur MLA candidate, Madan Reddy for Medak MP seat". Archived from the original on 27 October 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
- "Vakiti Sunitha Laxma Reddy". sunithalaxmareddy.in. Archived from the original on 4 December 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
- Ali, Roushan (27 March 2019). "V Sunitha Laxma Reddy meets KCR, to board Car soon". The Times of India. Retrieved 11 November 2019.