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<div>{{Short description|Indian politician}}<br />
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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Mekatoti Sucharita<br />
| Father_name = <br />
| image = Sucharitha.jpg<br />
| caption = Mekatoti Sucharita<br />
| birth_date = 25 December 1972<br />
| birth_place = [[Ponnur]]<br />
| residence = Phirangipuram, Guntur 522529<br />
| office = [[Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy Ministry|Minister for Home affairs and Disaster Management]], [[Government of Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
| term_start = 8 Jun 2019<br />
| predecessor = [[Nimmakayala Chinarajappa]]<br />
| successor = <br />
| office1 = [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly|Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly<br>Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
| constituency1 = [[Prathipadu (SC) (Assembly constituency)|Prathipadu]]<br />
| term_start1 = 2019<br />
| term_end1 = <br />
| predecessor1 = [[Ravela Kishore Babu]]<br />
| successor1 = <br />
| constituency2 = [[Prathipadu (SC) (Assembly constituency)|Prathipadu]]<br />
| term_start2 = 2009<br />
| term_end2 = 2014<br />
| predecessor2 = Ravi Venkata Ramana<br />
| successor2 = [[Ravela Kishore Babu]]<br />
| party = [[YSR Congress Party]]<br />
| otherparty = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
| website = <br />
| footnotes = <br />
| date = <br />
| year = <br />
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'''Mekathoti Sucharita''' is an Indian politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. She belongs to the [[YSR Congress Party|YSRCP]]. She is the current [[Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy Ministry|Home minister of Andhra Pradesh]]. She is also the Minister of Disaster Management.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mekathoti Sucharita, the Dalit woman Home Minister of Andhra Pradesh|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/mekathoti-sucharita-the-dalit-woman-home-minister-of-andhra-pradesh-5771929/|work=The New Indian Express|date=9 June 2019|location=Hyderabad}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Mekatoti Sucharita set to create history|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/mekatoti-sucharita-set-to-create-history/article27691485.ece|work=The Hindu|date=8 June 2019|location=Guntur}}</ref><br />
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==Political career==<br />
Sucharita was elected as an MLA from [[Prathipadu (SC) (Assembly constituency)|Prathipadu]] segment for the first time in [[200## Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2009]] on Congress ticket. She was inducted into the Congress by the late Dr. [[Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy|Y S Rajashekara Reddy]] (YSR) after he spotted her during his historic ‘[[padayatra]]’ in 2003. Groomed by YSR during his tenure as chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh, Sucharita's rise to the cabinet rank began in 2006 when she won the Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies (ZPTC) election from [[Phirangipuram]] in [[Guntur]] as a Congress candidate. She served for two years as ZPTC member.<br />
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In 2009, YSR allotted her the party ticket for Prathipadu Assembly Constituency in Guntur district from where she won comfortably. After YSR's death in September 2009, she swore allegiance to [[Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy|Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy]] and resigned from Congress when Jagan launched [[YSR Congress Party|YSRCP]] in March 2011. She again won from the seat on a YSRCP ticket in the by-elections held in May 2012.<br />
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Despite conceding her seat to the TDP in 2014, Sucharita's loyalty to the YSR family was rewarded with Jagan again allotting her the YSRCP ticket in the 2019 assembly elections.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/jagan-reddy-appoints-dalit-woman-as-home-minister-of-andhra-pradesh/story-RvwRjNh10RfNpfGkq1EnnO.html|title=Jagan Reddy appoints Dalit woman as home minister of Andhra Pradesh|date=2019-06-08|website=Hindustan times|language=en|access-date=2019-06-11}}</ref> She defeated two heavyweights — former minister D Manikya Vara Prasad of the TDP and former TDP minister [[Ravela Kishore Babu]], who joined [[Jana Sena Party]].<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Sucharita, who hails from Phirangipuram in Guntur, is married to IRS officer M Dayasagar who is now posted as Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals Unit-8) in Hyderabad.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}} Her father N Anka Rao was a medical doctor at a government hospital.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}} He later ran a clinic in Phirangipuram. She completed her BA in Political Science in 1990.<br />
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[[Category:State cabinet ministers of Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
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[[Category:Home Ministers of Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Andhra Pradesh MLAs 2009–2014]]<br />
[[Category:YSR Congress politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians]]<br />
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