Kimidi Mrunalini

Mrunalini is from Cheepurupalli. She married Kimidi Ganapathi Rao, also a politician and former MLA.^[2] Her brother-in-law Kimidi Kala Venkata Rao and her son Nagarjuna, are also in politics.^[3][4][5]

Mrunalini won for the first time as MLA in 2014 from Cheepurupalli Assembly constituency defeating senior Congress leader Botsa Satyanarayana by a margin of 20,842 votes. She was also the Rural Development Minister in the Telugu Desam government from 2014 but was dropped in April 2017 while her brother-in-law Kimidi Kala Venkata Rao was inducted as a minister.^[6][7][2][8] She was a former Vizianagaram Zilla Parishad chairperson.^[9]