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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 |
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]
Education
[edit]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
[edit]He is the grandson of M. V. V. S. Murthi, who is the founder of GITAM and former MP of Visakhapatnam, and of Kavuri Samba Siva Rao, another former MP of Machilipatnam and Eluru. 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
[edit]General Election 2024
[edit]| 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 | ||||
References
[edit]- ↑ "Sribharat Mathukumilli | GITAM". www.gitam.edu. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ↑ "About Us". Master's Program in Public Policy (MPP), Kautilya School of Public Policy, Best MPP Program. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ↑ India Today (13 July 2024). "Businessmen | In august company". Archived from the original on 7 August 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ↑ "Bharat Mathukumilli(TDP):Constituency- VISAKHAPATNAM(ANDHRA PRADESH) - Affidavit Information of Candidate". myneta.info. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ↑ "About President". gdch.edu.in. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ↑ Staff, T. N. M. (3 October 2018). "GITAM founder and ex-MP MVVS Murthi killed in US road accident". The News Minute. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ↑ "Visakhapatnam Constituency Lok Sabha Election Result: Candidates Profiles, Map, Total Votes, Past Results | Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ↑ "It's official: TDP's Sribharat to vie with Botcha Jhansi from YSRCP for Vizag MP seat". The Hindu. 22 March 2024. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 9 April 2024.