Dumpa Mary Vijayakumari

Vijayakumari was on born on 9 July 1952 in Sarugudu village in Visakhapatnam district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. She is a graduate of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam in Master of Arts. She married Shri Maridaiah on 3 Jan 1975. She has three sons and one daughter.^[1]

In 1999, Vijayakumari was elected a Member of Parliament to 13th Lok Sabha. She served as a member of Committee on Communications from 1999 to 2001, Committee on Empowerment of Women from 2001 to 2002 and 2002–2004, as a member of Consultative Committee, Ministry of Environment and Forests. She has been involved in the upliftment of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes, Women, Orphans and aged people.^[1]