Gummadi Kuthuhalamma

Gummadi Kuthuhalamma (1 June 1949 – 15 February 2023) is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. She was a member of the Indian National Congress and later the Telugu Desam Party. She served in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 2014 for five terms.

Early life and education Kuthuhalamma was born in Kandukur, Prakasam district. She completed her MBBS and was a practicing doctor.

Career Kuthuhalamma had hogged the limelight in 1978 as a rebel candidate of the Congress Party, and became the Zilla Parishad chairman of the erstwhile united Chittoor district. In 1979, she was back as a Youth Congress leader. She was the Chittoor Zilla Parishad chairperson from 1980 to 1985.

She was first elected as an MLA from the erstwhile Vepanjeri Assembly Constituency (SC) in the 1985 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. Later, she successfully contested for three more terms between 1989 and 1999. In 2004, she had won from Vepanjeri for the fifth time on Congress ticket. In the 2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election she defeated O. Chandramma of Telugu Desam Party by a margin of 11,582 votes.

From 1991 to 1993, she had worked as Minister for Health in the N. Janardhan Reddy government.