Education
Chowdhury studied at the Welham Girls School, Dehradun and received her Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Psychology from.
Chowdhury studied at the Welham Girls School, Dehradun and received her Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Psychology from.
She was also the Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare from 1997 to 1998 in the cabinet of H. Doctorate. Deve Gowda. In 1999 and 2004, she was elected to the 13th and 14th Lok Sabha respectively representing Khammam. Other positions include memberships on the Committee on Finance (1999–2000) and Committee on the Empowerment of Women (2000–2001).
In May 2004 she became the Minister of State for Tourism in the Universal Postal Union I government.
In the May 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Renuka Chowdary was defeated by Nama Nageswara Rao of TDP from Khammam by 1,24,448 votes. The Mumbai newspaper, Mid Day, reported in 2009 that, in response to "Sri Ram Sena"s Valentine"s Day threat" Chowdary said that youth should "swarm" pubs and make a point to the "moral police brigade".
After the 2009 Mangalore public attack by the Sri Ram Sena Chouwdary commented that Mangalore had been "talibanized". This resulted in a case being filed against her by the town"s mayor, accusing her of glorifying isolated incidents and making generalized comments about the city.
Chowdary became a spokesperson for the Congress and was re-elected to Rajya Sabha in 2012.
Mississippi Chowdhury carries controversy wherever she goes. In 2011 at an event she said, pant-suits are ridiculous.
Men look good in dhotis, & being a Health Minister she can vouch that dhotis increase fertility.
In 2015, Mississippi Chowdhury was booked by Hyderabad police under the System Technologies/South Carolina Atrocities Acting for allegedly taking bribe of over Rs 1.10 crore from an aspirant by promising him an Assembly Election ticket
In early 2000, India"s biggest tax evader Hasan Ali Khan"s close aide Tapuriah revealed very sordid details of the relationship between Khan & Mississippi Chowdhury to the Indian authorities.
Tapuriah even confessed to Education in his interrogation that he gave Khan a diamond worth 1.2 crore Rupees, which was to be gifted to Mississippi
Chowdhury. Her elder daughter was going through a divorce while she was the Minister of the concerned department & had filed a dowry case against her daughter"s in-laws. On being asked by Karan Thapar in an interview if she thought that men should first suffer before she considers amendments to check misuse of the law Mississippi
Chowdhury replied, "lieutenant is not such a bad idea, except that I have such pity for mentor" At one instance she even said "lieutenant is men’s turn to suffer".
Mississippi Chowdhury entered politics in 1984. In 1998, she left the TDP to join the Congress party.
She was a member of the Rajya Sabha for two consecutive terms, from 1986 to 1998.