{{Short description|Indian politician (1947–2024)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | office = Member of Legislative Assembly <br> Andhra Pradesh | term = 2004–2009 | predecessor = Vanteru Venugopal Reddy | successor = Beeda Masthan Rao | constituency = Kavali | office2 = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | term2 = 1996–1998 | predecessor2 = Magunta Subbarama Reddy | successor2 = Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy | constituency2 = Ongole | birth_date = {{birth date|1947|7|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Buchireddypalem, Nellore district, Madras Province, British India | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|9|25|1947|7|27|df=y}} | party = Indian National Congress }}
'''Magunta Parvathi Subramma Reddy''' (27 July 1947 – 25 September 2024), commonly known as '''Magunta Parvathamma''', was an Indian National Congress politician from Andhra Pradesh. She was a member of the 11th Lok Sabha and won the 2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.
==Early life== Magunta was born on 27 July 1947 in Buchireddypalem of Nellore district, to Bezawada Rama Reddy and his wife. She did her schooling from Kasturi Devi Girls School.<ref name="LS">{{cite web|title=Biographical Sketch of Members of the XI Lok Sabha: Reddy, Smt. Magunta Parvathi Subramma|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3769.htm|publisher=Lok Sabha|accessdate=27 November 2017}}</ref>
==Career== For the 1996 Indian general election, the Indian National Congress (INC) made Parvathamma its candidate from Ongole. She obtained 3,81,475 votes while her nearest rival Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) received 3,31,415.<ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on General Elections, 1996 to the Eleventh Lok Sabha|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1996/Vol_II_LS96.pdf|publisher=Election Commission of India|accessdate=27 November 2017|page=26}}</ref> After winning the seat she became a member of the 11th Lok Sabha.<ref name="LS" /> During the 2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, she won from Kavali securing 57.68% of the total votes polled.<ref>{{cite web|title=State Elections 2004 - Partywise Comparison for 125-Kavali Constituency of Andhra Pradesh|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/electionanalysis/AE/S01/partycomp125.htm|publisher=Election Commission of India|accessdate=27 November 2017}}</ref> Parvathamma was one of the contestants for the Ongole assembly seat during the 2012 Andhra Pradesh by-election.<ref>{{cite news|title=Magunta Parvathamma hits the campaign trail|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/magunta-parvathamma-hits-the-campaign-trail/article3389975.ece|accessdate=27 November 2017|work=The Hindu|date=6 May 2012}}</ref> She was a director of the Pearl Distillery.<ref>{{cite web|title=Magunta Parvathamma|url=https://www.zaubacorp.com/director/MAGUNTA-PARVATHAMMA/07350440|publisher=Zauba Corp|accessdate=27 November 2017}}</ref>
==Personal life and death== On 19 February 1967, she married politician Magunta Subbarama Reddy. Together they had two children.<ref name="LS" /> Reddy was shot dead by members of the People's War Group in 1995.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lifer for two for Magunta's murder|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2000/08/05/stories/0405201b.htm|accessdate=27 November 2017|work=The Hindu|date=5 August 2000}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
Parvathamma died on 25 September 2024, at the age of 77.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bandari |first=Pavan |title=Former MP Magunta Parvathamma passes away due to ill health |url=https://www.thehansindia.com/amp/andhra-pradesh/former-mp-magunta-parvathamma-passes-away-due-to-ill-health-909571 |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=The Hans India |language=en}}</ref>
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