Purandeswari was again elected to the Lok Sabha again in 2009 from Visakhapatnam on the Congress ticket and continued as the union minister of state for human resource development. In 2012, she was shifted to the commerce and industry ministry.
The 55-year-old sent her resignation to Prime Minster Manmohan Singh after the bill for formation of a separate Telangana state was passed by parliament. She also quit the Congress party.
Purandeswari's husband Venkateshwara Rao, member of the Andhra Pradesh assembly, also resigned from the Congress to protest the state's bifurcation.
Purandeswari likely to join BJP
Hyderabad: Former central minister Daggubati Purandeswari, who quit the Congress party last month to protest bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, is likely to join the BJP.Purandeswari and her husband Daggubati Venkateshwara Rao are likely to join
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