Actual Name : Dharmavarapu Kottam Aruna
Date of birth : 04/05/1960
Place of birth : Narayanapet, Andhra Pradesh, India
Category : Politicians
D.K. Aruna has represented 'Samajwadi Party' in Andhra Pradesh and elected on Samajwadi Party ticket to AP Assembly from 'Gadwal' constituency. She elected as MLA from Gadwal Assembly of Mahaboobnagar district for the first time in 1999. In 2004 she joined in the Congress Party and elected from the same constituency. She is the cabinet member in the late YS Rajasekhar Reddy council of ministers and K. Rosaiah ministry and held portfolio of Small Scale industries, Sugar, Khadi and Village industries.
D.K. Aruna came from the politically strong family and she is the sister in law of 'D.K. Samarasimha Reddy', who represented four times to the Assembly from Gadwal constituency and also a former minister. D.K. Aruna’s daughter has been married to the son of 'Anam Vivekananda Reddy', brother of 'Anam Ramanarayana Reddy', Finance minister in Kiran Kumar Reddy’s cabinet.