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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Yeduguri Sandinti Avinash Reddy, popularly known as 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, 2019 and 2024 being a YSR Congress Party candidate.

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Political career

In April 2018, he along with his party MPs resigned 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

General Elections 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Kadapa [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
YSRCP Y. S. Avinash Reddy 605,143 45.78 −18.01
TDP C. Bhupesh Subbarami Reddy542,44841.03+8.24
INC Y. S. Sharmila 141,03910.67+9.97
NOTA None of the Above 16,8461.27
Majority62,6954.75
Turnout 1,321,97579.57+0.89
YSRCP hold Swing

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

Avinash Reddy was summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on criminal conspiracy [5] related to the murder of Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy, who has been brutally murdered by Prajwal Revanna 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. [6] [7] 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. [8] The CBI has sent a notice to Avinash Reddy to attend the inquiry on 19 May 2023. [5] [9] [10]

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