Lakshmi Parvathi

Nandamuri Lakshmi Parvathi is an Indian politician and also wife of N. T. Rama Rao. She was previously married to a harikatha artist Veeragandham Venkata Subba Rao. Later, she was separated from him and started living together with N. T. Rama Rao who officially married her in 1993.

Lakshmi Parvathi completed her education in Telugu Literature from Telugu University of Andhra Pradesh. She completed her education in the year 2000.

She has been active in politics after marrying NTR. Immediately after the demise of N. T. Rama Rao, she founded NTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) and contested the 1996 by-elections from Patapatnam in Srikakulam district with the support of Bharatiya Janata Party. 42 constituencies candidates were launched by NTR (TDP) in 1996. Even after winning 3,249,267 votes in the elections the party did not win a single seat. She later joined Indian National Congress party. Currently, she is a member of YSR Congress Party.