Bade Nagajyothi

Bade Nagajyothi is an Indian politician from Telangana state. She is the chairperson of the Mulugu Zilla Praja Parishad.

Early life

She was born to Bade Nageswara Rao and Rajeswari in the forests near Kalvapalli village of S.S. Tadvai mandal of the erstwhile Warangal district in 1994. Both her father and mother were former Maoist leaders. Her uncle Bade Chokka Rao, alias Damodar, is also a member of the banned Maoist party. She was brought up by her grandparents and did her early schooling at Ashram school in Kalvapalli and later joined Chaitanya High School in Hanumkonda. She took to electoral politics on the advice of her paternal aunt, who was a doctor. She is a post-graduate with M.Sc. in botany and also has B.Ed. degree from Kakatiya University, Warangal. She quit as a teacher after joining politics. She is from Koya tribe.

Career

Nagajyothi started her political career as a Sarpanch, winning the local Zilla Parishad elections as an independent in her native village Kalavapalli in 2019 and was later vice-chairman of the ZPTC. She is named as the Bharat Rashtra Samithi candidate to contest the Mulugu constituency against Seethakka in the 2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election. After filing her nomination on 10 November 2023, she took part in a huge road show. She lost to Seethakka by 33,700 votes in the elections held on 30 November.