Who is the luckiest among all the newly inducted ministers in YS Jagan Mohan Reddy cabinet? Without doubt, Vidadala Rajini. Rajini is quite young to be a minister. Also, she is a first time MLA.
Not just that, she is the first non-Kamma to win from Chilakaluripet assembly constituency. The real luck for her is that she has only joined the party in 2018, a year before the 2019 elections.
Rajani, who hails from Purushothama Patnam in Chilakaluripet has studied in Hyderabad. A graduate from Osmania University, this BC D category woman married a Kapu. Later, she shifted to the US to work in a company. Later, she turned an entrepreneur and became the member of the board of directors in the company that she founded.
She returned to India and founded VR Foundation to take up social service activities such as provision of drinking water, scholarship to children and job opportunities to the youth.
She also began working among the BCs and organized several programmes in collaboration with the BC associations.Finally, she caught YSRCP chief YS Jagan’s eye and was made the candidate from Chilakaluripet. She took on the then minister Prattipati Pulla Rao and defeated him by over 8000 votes. She is the first BC woman to have won from Chilakaluripet.
Now, she has been included in the council of ministers and has been given a key department. It now remains to be seen how she copes with the pressures and pulls of the governance and administration. She is the youngest among the ministers in YS Jagan cabinet.