Gummadi Kuthuhalamma
# Gummadi Kuthuhalamma

Gummadi Kuthuhalamma (Telugu: గుమ్మడి కుతూహలమ్మ; 1 June 1949 – 15 February 2023) an Indian politician. 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.

Kuthuhalamma, a doctor by profession, 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.

She had successfully contested as MLA from the erstwhile Vepanjeri Assembly Constituency (SC) in the district for four terms between 1985 and 1999. In 2004, she had won from the reorganised Puthalapattu Assembly Constituency (SC).

In the N. Janardhan Reddy government, Kuthuhalamma had worked as Minister for Health. During the Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy government, she had worked as Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

In 2014, she had joined the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and was defeated from the Puthalapattu constituency.

Kuthuhalamma died in Tirupati on 15 February 2023, at the age of 73.

