Mathukumilli Bharat
Indian educationist and politician
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Mathukumilli Sribharat is an Indian educationist and politician who is member of 18th Lok Sabha . He also serves as the President of Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM), a private deemed university located in Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad and Bengaluru.[1] He is also the founder of Hyderabad-based Kautilya School of Public Policy that offers masters and doctoral programs in public policy.[2][3]
M. V. V. S. Murthi (grand father) Nara Lokesh (co-brother)
Mathukumilli Bharat | |
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| Member of the Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| Assumed office 4 June 2024 | |
| Preceded by | M. V. V. Satyanarayana |
| Constituency | Visakhapatnam |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Telugu Desam Party |
| Relatives | Nandamuri Balakrishna (father-in-law) M. V. V. S. Murthi (grand father) Nara Lokesh (co-brother) |
| Alma mater | Purdue University (Industrial Engineering) Stanford University (M.B.A. and MA Joint Degree) |
| Occupation | President GITAM |
| Website | www |
Education
Bharat holds an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Class of 2010. He also obtained a joint MBA/MA Education degree from Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, Class of 2016.[4][5]
Family
He is the grandson of M. V. V. S. Murthi who is the founder of GITAM. He is married to Nandamuri Tejaswini, the younger daughter of Nandamuri Balakrishna.[6]
Politics
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Bharat is a member of Telugu Desam Party having contested from Visakhapatnam Lok Sabha constituency for the first time in Indian General Elections 2019. He lost by a margin of 4414 votes in 2019.[7] For the 2024 Indian General Elections he is again declared as a candidate from Vishakapatnam Lok Sabha constituency[8] and won the election by close to 5 lakh votes.
Election results
General Election 2024
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Mathukumilli Sribharat | 907,467 | 65.42 |  30.53 | |
| YSRCP | Botcha Jhansi Lakshmi | 4,03,220 | 29.07 |  6.17 | |
| INC | Pulusu Satyanarayana Reddy | 30,267 | 2.18 | 1.00 | |
| PSP | K. A. Paul | 7,696 | 0.55 | N/A | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 5,313 | 0.38 | 0.96 | |
| Majority | 5,04,247 | 36.35 | 36.00 | ||
| Turnout | 13,87,125 | 71.11 | 3.33 | ||
| TDP gain from YSRCP | Swing | ||||