Shobha Nagi Reddy

Shobha Nagi Reddy
Gangula Prathapa Reddy
Constituency	Allagadda
Personal details
Born	(1968-11-16)16 November 1968 Allagadda, Andhra Pradesh, India
Died	24 April 2014(2014-04-24) (aged 45) Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Political party	YSR Congress Party (2012-2014)
Other political affiliations	Praja Rajyam Party (2009-2012) Telugu Desam Party (1996-2009)
Spouse	Bhuma Nagi Reddy
Children	Two daughters, a son

Shobha Nagi Reddy (16 December 1968 – 24 April 2014)

was also a politician who served twice as a Member of Legislative Assembly and thrice as a Member of Parliament.

Early life

Shobha Nagireddy was the younger daughter of S. V. Subba Reddy, and sister of Nagarathamma, a politician and former minister from Andhra Pradesh. She was born and brought up in Allagadda, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh where she studied up to Intermediate. Her elder brother, S.V. Mohan Reddy, is also a politician and has brother in law- Ramachandra Reddy.

Political career

Shobha Nagireddy first became actively engaged in politics in 1996, prior to which she was a housewife. Her husband, Bhuma Nagireddy, was elected as a

and so had to resign from his post as a Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Allagadda constituency. Fighting as a candidate of Telugu Desam Party, she was elected to the vacant Assembly seat. She was elected four times consecutively to the state Assembly. She is the only woman in AP to have been legislator, along with her father, for two consecutive terms.

In 2004, she contested

seat and was unsuccessful. In 2008, she and her husband joined the newly formed Prajarajyam party.

In 2011, after PRP merged with INC, Shobha joined the YSR Congress party.[3]

Shobha Nagireddy won Allagadda state assembly constituency posthumously which she has contested as YSR congress candidate in the 2014 state election conducted on May 7 of that year just days after her sudden death, by-election date would be announced soon. Allagadda Assembly constituency could be Seema Andhra's first election mandate post bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

Personal life

Shobha married Bhuma Nagireddy in 1986 and the couple has three children: 2 daughters including Bhuma Akhila Priya and a son.^[4]

Death

In the late hours of 23 April 2014, the SUV (Mitsubishi Outlander) in which Shobha was travelling overturned near Gubagundam Metta. She was returning after campaigning for the upcoming 2014 assembly elections. Hours later, she died undergoing treatment in Care hospital in Hyderabad.^[5] She was 45 years old. Her husband, who became severely depressed after her death and change of party, died on 12 March 2017. They are survived by their three children.

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