Career
Purandhareswari is also known as Southern Sushma Swaraj. She had previously represented the Bapatla constituency in the 14th Lok Sabha, during which period she served as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development. She joined Bharatiya Janata Party on 7 March 2014.
On 3 July 2015, Daggubati Purandeswari was appointed in-charge of BJP Mahila Morcha.
In appreciation of her performance in Parliament, the Asian Age adjudged her as the best Parliamentarian for 2004-2005. She did her schooling from Sacred Heart Matriculation Higher Secondary School,Church Park, Chennai.
She has a Bachelor of Arts from the South Indian Educational Trust and Women College (Chennai) (renamed as the Bashir Ahmed Sayeed College for Women), followed by a short course in gemmology at the Gemmological Institute of India. Later she established Hyderabad Institute of Gem and Jewellery.
She can read, write and speak five languages, English, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and French.