D. K. Aruna

Dharmavaram Kottam Aruna is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress. She is a legislator representing Gadwal constituency in Telangana and has served as the Minister for Information and Public Relations.[1][2]


Early life and political career

Aruna studied science up to Intermediate and at the age of 16, she got married into a family of politicians and Congress members.

Her father-in-law, D.K. Satya Reddy, her husband D.K. Bharatha Simha Reddy, and her brother-in-law D.K. Samara Simha Reddy have all been involved in politics. Her father Chitlem Narsi Reddy, brothers Chitlem Venkateswar Reddy and Chitlem Ram Mohan Reddy are congress workers and legislators.[3][4]

Her father and brother, Venkateswar were assassinated by Maoists on Independence Day in 2005 while attending the celebrations at Narayanpet.[5]

She got involved in public life very early by attending to “grievance redressal” sessions at her in-laws place.

Losing her first few elections by very narrow margins, she was MLA from Gadwal Assembly constituency of Mahaboobnagar district for the first time in 1999.[6] In 2004 D.K. Aruna won representing the Samajwadi Party and subsequently represented the Congress in the 2009 elections.[4] As a leader, while in the opposition, she participated in the Historic Electricity agitation, led a padayatra from Gadwal to the State capital to highlight the irrigation water problems of the farmers in Mahaboobnagar District and went on an indefinite hunger strike for irrigation water to the dry lands of Telangana.

She has also gone on padayatra from amulamma temple in Gadwal mandal to Jogulamba temple in Alampur [7] and later a two-day hunger strike to protest against the State government's refusal to form Gadwal as part of a new district in September 2016 [8]

Political statistics

Year Contested For Party Constituency Opponent Votes Majority Result
1 1999 MLA INC Gadwal GHATTU BHEEMUDU (TDP) 43261 - 47807 -4546 Lost [9]
2 2004 SP GHATTU BHEEMUDU (TDP) 80703 - 42017 38686 Won [10]
3 2009 INC Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy (TDP) 63433 - 53006 10427 Won [11]
4 2014 INC Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy (TRS) 83355 - 75095 8260 Won [12]

References

  1. ↑ AP govt turns down plea to prosecute Dharmana Rao | Business Standard
  2. ↑ The Hindu : States / Andhra Pradesh : YSR's death in copter crash: ATRs placed before Cabinet
  3. ↑ "The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh News : Makthal bypoll: Narsi Reddy's son files papers". www.thehindu.com. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  4. 1 2 "DK family still rules the roost". The Hindu. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  5. ↑ "Maoists Murder Andhra MLA". Arab News. 2005-08-16. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  6. ↑ "Congress MLA DK Aruna Exclusive Interview | iDreamPost.com". Telugu Cinema News | Latest Telugu Movie Updates | iDreamPost.com. 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  7. ↑ "Telangana: MLAs hit the road for new districts". deccanchronicle.com/. 2016-07-20. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  8. ↑ "DK Aruna, Ponnala undertake hunger strike for new districts". The Hans India. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  9. ↑ https://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1999/StatisticalReport-AP99.pdf | p=222
  10. ↑ https://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2004/StatisticalReports_AP_2004.pdf | page=224
  11. ↑ https://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2009/Statistical_Report_AP2009.pdf | page=109
  12. ↑ https://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2014/Stat-Report-Andhra-Pradesh2014.pdf | page=113
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