11 Facts About Dipika Damerla

Dipika Damerla is the current Mississauga City Councillor for Ward 7, the neighbourhood of Cooksville, since her swearing-in on December 3,2018.

Dipika Damerla served as Minister of Seniors Affairs in the Cabinet of Premier Kathleen Wynne.

On March 7,2024, Dipika Damerla Announced that she would be seeking to be elected Mayor of Mississauga.

Dipika Damerla was born in a Telugu-speaking family in Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Dipika Damerla worked in corporate banking at the Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Nova Scotia.

Dipika Damerla beat her nearest rival, Progressive Conservative Zoran Churchin by 4,238 votes in the 2011 provincial election.

Dipika Damerla said that the current system is long and costly.

In June 2014, Dipika Damerla was appointed as an Associate Minister for the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care focusing on long-term care.

Dipika Damerla then succeeded Mario Sergio as Minister responsible for Seniors Affairs, another minister without portfolio position, in a June 13,2016 cabinet shuffle.

Dipika Damerla was appointed Minister of Seniors Affairs, leading a new standalone ministry created from the former Ontario Seniors' Secretariat, on January 12,2017.

Dipika Damerla was one of the four sitting councillors who contested the 2024 mayoral by-election to replace Bonnie Crombie, who resigned after being elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in December 2023.