Palvai Rajyalaxmi
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Palvai Rajyalaxmi is an Indian politician from Telangana. She is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly from Sirpur Assembly constituency in the erstwhile Adilabad district, renamed as Komaram Bheem Asifabad district.[1][2]
On 15 September 1999, her husband and sitting Sirpur MLA, Palvai Purushotham Rao, was gunned down by maoists in Kagaznagar town.[3] Her son Palvai Harish Babu is a doctor and late became an MLA from the same constituency. She won from the seat held by her husband.[4] She contested on Telugu Desam ticket and won the 1999 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.[5][6] She polled 57,318 votes and defeated her nearest rival, Koneru Konappa of the Indian National Congress, by a margin of 29,967 votes.[7]