Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy

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Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy
Member of Legislative Assembly
Andhra Pradesh
In office
2009–2024
Education B.Com (1991)
Alma mater A. C. College

Pinnelli RamakrishnaReddy (born 1970) is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He is an MLA of YSR Congress Party from Macherla Assembly Constituency in Guntur District. He won the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election. [1] [2] He was nominated again by the YSR Congress Party to contest the Macherla seat in the 2024 Assembly Election and lost. [3]

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Early life and education

Reddy was born in Kandlakunta village, Veldurthi mandal, Guntur District. His father's name is Pinnelli Venkateswara Reddy. He completed his intermediate, the pre university course from SKRBR college, Narasaraopet and did his B.Com. degree from Andhra Christian College, Guntur. [4]

Career

Reddy started his political journey with Indian National Congress. He was a member of ZPTC before serving as MLA of Macherla representing Indian National Congress in 2009. [5] Reddy, who was a loyalist to Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy, resigned from the Congress and won for the second time from Macherla constituency in the 2012 byelection [6] and went on to win the 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election. [7] He was elected for the fourth time winning the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election defeating Anji Reddy Annapureddy of Telugu Desam Party by a margin of 21,918 votes. [8] [9] In January 2020, he was allegedly attacked by unidentified protestors who were agitating against YSRCP's announcement of three capitals for the state. [10] [11]

EVM Damage Case

On 13 May 2024, Reddy was recorded on CCTV entering a polling booth in Macherla constituency and damaging a voter-verified paper audit trail machine at the booth. [12] A first information report was lodged against him and the Andhra Pradesh High Court granted him anticipatory bail. [13] the Supreme Court of India barred Reddy from entering the vote counting station for his constituency on 4 June, when election results would be declared, and termed his conduct and the anticipatory bail granted to him by the Andhra Pradesh High Court as "sheer mockery of justice system". [14] [15] He was subsequently arrested and jailed for 90 days in Nellore jail for investigation.

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