Shobha Nagi Reddy: Difference between revisions

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1968|12|16|df=y}}

| party =[[YSR Congress Party]] (2012-2014)

'''Shobha Nagi Reddy''' (16 December 1968 – 24 April 2014)<ref>{{cite web|title=Bhuma Shobha Nagireddy No More|url=http://filmcircle.com/yrcp-leader-sobha-nagireddy-died-in-an-accident/|publisher=Filmcircle|accessdate=24 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426235853/http://filmcircle.com/yrcp-leader-sobha-nagireddy-died-in-an-accident/|archivedate=26 April 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> was an Indian politician from [[Andhra Pradesh]], India. She represented the [[Allagadda]] constituency in the [[Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh]] for four terms until 2012 when she resigned due to political turmoil in her party.<ref>{{cite web|title=Shobha submits fresh resignation|url=http://expressbuzz.com/topic/shobha-submits-fresh-resignation/347597.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303160159/http://expressbuzz.com/topic/shobha-submits-fresh-resignation/347597.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 March 2016|publisher=Expressbuzz|accessdate=19 March 2012}}</ref> She served as the chairperson of [[Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation]] (APSRTC) and was the spokesperson for [[Prajarajyam]] party, having previously been General Secretary and also a state committee member in [[Telugu Desam Party]]. In 2012, she left the Prajarajyam party and joined the newly formed [[YSR Congress]]. Her husband [[Bhuma Nagi Reddy]] is also a politician who served twice as a Member of Legislative Assembly and thrice as a Member of Parliament.

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.

 

Shoba Nagireddy first became actively engaged in politics in 1996, prior to which she was a housewife. Her husband, Bhuma Nagireddy, was elected as a [[Member of Parliament]] 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 2011, after PRP merged with INC, Sobha joined the YSR Congress party.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/04/stories/2008070455920400.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706175300/http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/04/stories/2008070455920400.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=6 July 2008 | location=Chennai, India | work=[[The Hindu]] | title=Bhuma, Sobha Nagireddy to hold talks | date=4 July 2008}}</ref>

 

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.

 

Shobha married Bhuma Nagireddy in 1986 and the couple has three children: 2 daughters and a son.<ref>Election commission manual of 2009</ref>

 

In the late hours of 23 April 2014, the SUV (Mitsubishi) 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]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://filmcircle.com/yrcp-leader-sobha-nagireddy-died-in-an-accident/ | location=Hyderabad, India | work=Tollywooddaily | title=Bhuma, Sobha Nagireddy Declared Dead | date=24 April 2014 | url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426235853/http://filmcircle.com/yrcp-leader-sobha-nagireddy-died-in-an-accident/ | archivedate=26 April 2014 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> She was 45 years old. Her husband, who became severely depressed after her death and change party, followed her on 12 March 2017. They are survived by their three children.

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[[Category:Women members of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]

[[Category:Road incident deaths in India]]

[[Category:Praja Rajyam Party politicians]]

[[Category:20th-century Indian women politicians]]

[[Category:20th-century Indian politicians]]