Thirtyeight-year-old Gummadi Anuradha, Telangana’s first Adivasi female Assistant Professor of Law, is banking on the legacy of her father Gummadi Narsaiah, a five-time MLA from the Yellandu Assembly constituency, to succeed in her maiden electoral debut.
The Adivasi academic is trying her luck in politics by entering the poll fray as an independent from the ST-reserved Yellandu Assembly constituency, represented by her father Gummadi Narsaiah for five terms, in Bhadradri Kothagudem district.
She is backed by the CPI (Marxist-Leninist) Prajapandha which holds considerable sway in the constituency, an erstwhile stronghold of the CPI (ML-New Democracy). In all, 20 candidates are in the fray from Yellandu seat for the November 30 Telangana Assembly polls. The contestants in the fray include sitting MLA Banoth Haripriya Naik of the BRS, Koram Kanakaiah of the Congress and Dharavath Ravinder Naik of the BJP.
