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Mekathoti Sucharita is an Indian politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. She belongs to the YSRCP. She is the current Home minister of Andhra Pradesh, the first woman to be in the office of Home Minister. She is also the Minister of Disaster Management. Sucharita was elected as an MLA from Prathipadu segment for the first time in 2009 on Congress ticket. She was inducted into the Congress by the late Dr. Y S Rajashekara Reddy (YSR) after he spotted her during his historic ‘padayatra’ in 2003. Groomed by YSR during his tenure as chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh, Sucharita’s rise to the cabinet rank began in 2006 when she won the Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies (ZPTC) election from Phirangipuram in Guntur as a Congress candidate. She served for two years as ZPTC member.