D. K. Aruna

Dharmavarapu Kottam Aruna is an Indian politician from Telangana. She is the member of Bharatiya Janata Party in Telangana. She has been a legislator representing Gadwal constituency in Telangana

D. K. Aruna
Member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
2004–2018
Preceded byGattu Bheemudu
Succeeded byBandla Krishna Mohan Reddy
ConstituencyGadwal
Minister of Information and Public Relations
In office
May 2004
ConstituencyGadwal
Minister of Small Scale industries, Sugar, Khadi and Village Industries
In office
September 2009 – November 2010
ConstituencyGadwal
Personal details
Born (1960-05-04) 4 May 1960
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Other political
affiliations
Spouse(s)D.K. Bharatha Simha Reddy
Children3
ResidenceGadwal, Jogulamba Gadwal district
Alma materRaja Bahadur Venkata Rama Reddy Womens College,Hyderabad
OccupationAgriculture and Politician

She Also served as the Minister for Information and Public Relations in YS Rajasekhar Reddy's cabinet as well as Small Scale industries, Sugar, Khadi and Village Industries in Rosaiah's cabinet in Andhra Pradesh.

Early life

Aruna studied science up to Intermediate. She married into a family of politicians and Congress members aged 16.

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.[1][2]

Her father and brother, Venkateswar were assassinated by Maoists on Independence Day in 2005 while attending the celebrations at Narayanpet.[3]

Her entry into public life happened after becoming involved with "grievance redressal" sessions held at the house of her husband's family.

Political career

Losing her first few elections by narrow margins, she was MLA from Gadwal constituency of Mahaboobnagar district for the first time in 2004.[4]

In 2004 D.K. Aruna won representing the Samajwadi Party and subsequently represented Congress in the 2009 elections.[2] 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 Jamulamma temple in Gadwal mandal to Jogulamba temple in Alampur [5] 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 [6]

In 2018, Aruna lost 2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election from Gadwal to her nephew Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy of Telangana Rashtra Samithi.

In March 2019, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and she contested 2019 Lok sabha elections from Mahabubnagar constituency where she lost by 77,829 votes.[7][8][9][10]

Political statistics
Year Contested For Party Constituency Opponent Votes Majority Result
1 1999 MLA INC Gadwal Ghattu Bheemudu (TDP) 43261 - 47807 -4546 Lost [11]
2 2004 SP Ghattu Bheemudu (TDP) 80703 - 42017 38686 Won [12]
3 2009 INC Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy (TDP) 63433 - 53006 10427 Won [13]
4 2014 INC Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy (TRS) 83355 - 75095 8260 Won [14]
5 2018 INC Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy (TRS) -28260 Lost [15]
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References
  1. "The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh News : Makthal bypoll: Narsi Reddy's son files papers". The Hindu. 18 November 2005. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  2. "DK family still rules the roost". The Hindu. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  3. "Maoists Murder Andhra MLA". Arab News. 16 August 2005. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  4. "Congress MLA DK Aruna Exclusive Interview". Telugu Cinema News. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  5. "Telangana: MLAs hit the road for new districts". The Deccan Chronicle. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  6. "DK Aruna, Ponnala undertake hunger strike for new districts". The Hans India. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  7. "Senior TDP leader Peddi Reddy to join BJP". Business Standard India. 17 June 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  8. "Abandoning yellow brigade, TDP leader Peddi Reddy to don saffron in Telangana's BJP". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  9. "Senior TDP, Congress leaders join BJP in Telangana". The Indian Express. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  10. "In Big Jolt to Telangana Congress, DK Aruna Switches Over to BJP". News18. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  11. https://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1999/StatisticalReport-AP99.pdf | p=222
  12. https://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2004/StatisticalReports_AP_2004.pdf | page=224
  13. https://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2009/Statistical_Report_AP2009.pdf | page=109
  14. https://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2014/Stat-Report-Andhra-Pradesh2014.pdf | page=113
  15. http://eciresults.nic.in/StatewiseS292.htm
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