Mekathoti Sucharita

Mekathoti Sucharita is the Minister of Home & Disaster Management. She was born on 25-12-1972 in Guntur District to N Anka Rao. Sucharita, who hails from Phirangipuram in Guntur, is married to IRS officer M Dayasagar who is now posted as Commissioner of Income Tax in Mumbai.

In 1987, She Studied SSC Standard at St. Anns Girls High School, Phirangipuram, and Intermediate from KSJ College, Ponnur, in 1989. She attained a Graduation in Bachelor of Arts with Distance Education, Madurai Kamaraj University in 2003.

Sucharita was elected as an MLA from the Prathipadu segment for the first time in 2009 on a Congress ticket. She was inducted into the Congress by the late Dr. Y S Rajashekara Reddy after he spotted her during his historic ‘Padayatra’ in 2003.  She served for two years as a ZPTC member.

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 YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and resigned from Congress when Jagan launched YSRCP in March 2011. She again won from the seat on a YSRCP ticket in the by-elections held in the month of May 2012.

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. She defeated two heavy weights — former minister D Manikya Vara Prasad of the TDP and former TDP minister Ravela Kishore Babu, who joined the Jana Sena Party.

Sucharita is the Minister for Home Affairs Minister of Disaster Management in 2019.