Zakia Khanam
Mayana Zakia Khanam is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. She was nominated to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council in 2020. She is the current deputy chairman of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council. She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Political career
In July 2020, Khanam was elected to the APLC from the Annamayya constituency by Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan. She was elected deputy speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council on 26 November 2021, becoming the first woman to do so.Zakia Khanam resigned to her MLC post and YSRCP primary membership on 14 May 2025 and joined Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of BJP party President & Rajahmundry MP Daggubati Purandeswari and Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav in Vijayawada.