Y. S. Avinash Reddy

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Y. S. Avinash Reddy
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Assumed office
23 May 2019
Residence(s) Pulivendula, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh
Alma mater St. Joseph's College of Engineering (B.Tech), University of Worcester (M.B.A.)
As of 7 December, 2016
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Y. S. Avinash Reddy is an Indian politician who is the Member of Parliament in 16th Lok Sabha and 17th Lok Sabha from Kadapa (Lok Sabha constituency), Andhra Pradesh. He won the Indian general elections of 2014 and 2019 being a YSR Congress Party candidate.

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Political career

In April 2018, he along with his party MPs resigned for their posts in protest for not giving special status to Andhra Pradesh and issued a no-confidence notice on the government. [1] [2] [3]

General Elections 2014

General Election, 2014: Kadapa
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
YSRCP Avinash Reddy671,98355.95-11.20
TDP Reddeppagari Srinivasa Reddy481,66040.10+27.53
INC Ajaya Kumar Veena14,3191.19-13.03
BSP Malikireddy Hanumantha Reddy5,5150.46N/A
JD(U) Yellipalem Ramesh Reddy3,8090.32N/A
NOTA None of the Above 6,0580.50N/A
Majority190,32315.85-44.74
Turnout 1,200,66277.45-0.08
YSRCP hold Swing -11.20

General Elections 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Kadapa
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
YSRCP Y. S. Avinash Reddy783,49963.79+7.84
TDP C Adinarayana Reddy 402,77332.79-7.31
NOTA None of the Above 14,6921.2
Majority380,72631.00
Turnout 1,235,98778.68
YSRCP hold Swing +8.00

Criminal conspiracy in the murder of Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy

Avinash Reddy was summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on criminal conspiracy [4] related to the murder of Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy, who has been brutally murdered and found at his residence in Kadapa on 15 March 2019. The death was first reported as a heart attack but later found to be a murder which led to further suspicion. [5] [6] The murder took place few weeks before the 2019 Andhra Pradesh General Elections. Along with his father Bhaskar Reddy, Avinash Reddy has been accused of conspiracy in the murder of Bhasker Reddy's cousin Vivekananda Reddy, based on a list of suspects submitted by the victim’s daughter Suneetha Nareddy. [7] The CBI has sent a notice to Avinash Reddy to attend the inquiry on 19 May 2023. [4] [8] [9]

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References

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  3. "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
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