D K Aruna Personal Life

Full Name - D K Aruna

Date of Birth - 04 May 1960 (Age 63)

Place of Birth - Narayanapet, Mahbubnagar

Party Name - Indian National Congress

Education - 12th Pass

Profession - Agriculture & Politician

Father's Name - Chittem Narsi Reddy

 

D K Aruna Early Life

1976 : Aruna studied science up to Intermediate and at the age of 16 and she got married into a family of politicians and Congress members.

 

Interesting Facts about D K Aruna

DK Aruna Special Interests: Doing justice to the holding posts.

Favourite Pastime & Recreation : House wife and politics. 

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

 

Political Timeline of D K Aruna

2014 : For the Fourth time, she won from the same constituency gadwal, defeating Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy from TRS.

2009 : Again in 2009, she won from the same constituency in 2014 defeating Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy from TDP.

2004 : She also won from the same constituency in AP 2004 for the second time.

1999 : DK Aruna was elected MLA from Gadwal Assembly constituency of Mahaboobnagar district for the first time.

 

D K Aruna Achievements

DK Aruna launched padayatra from Gadwal to Hyderabad to highlight the problem of lack of irrigation facilities in her home district. She also sat on hunger stir to mount pressure on the State government seeking separate Gadwal district. She arosed to senior Congress Leader and raised many people's issues and spearheaded various agitations to mount pressure on the government of the day. 

 

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. In 2004, D.K. Aruna won representing the Samajwadi Party and subsequently represented Congress in the 2009 elections. 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 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. 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. In September 2020, She was appointed as Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party .