The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday appointed former Union Minister Daggubati Purandeswari as new president of party Andhra Pradesh unit. She replaces Somu Veeraraju.
The BJP also appointed former Chief Minister of combined Andhra Pradesh N. Kiran Kumar Reddy as member of the party’s national executive. Mr. Reddy was the last Chief Minister of the unified Andhra Pradesh, and joined the BJP in April this year.
At present, Ms. Purandeswari is BJP’s Odisha unit in-charge. She joined the BJP in 2014, after resigning from the Congress in protest against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh that was favoured by the then United Progressive Alliance government. She represented Visakhapatnam Lok Sabha constituency in the 2009 General Elections.