Three-time Lok Sabha member S P Y Reddy, who sought re-election for a fourth consecutive term from Nandyal in Andhra Pradesh recently, passed away on Tuesday, his family said. He was 69.
The senior politician and industrialist, who contested as a Jana Sena Party (JSP) candidate in the polls held on April 11, breathed his last at a private hospital in Hyderabad where he was undergoing treatment for some time. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
Reddy was suffering from heart and kidney related ailments and was admitted to the hospital on April 3. He took ill during the election campaign and was undergoing treatment since.
Reddy, founded the Nandi group of companies in 1984. The company's website states, "The group was started as a small unit of manufacturing of plastic containers. It was later expanded to manufacturing of PVC and allied pipes. Over the last few decades, the group has diversified into different businesses and has presence in cement, infrastructure, Tmt bars, agro products and dairy industry."
He began his political career with BJP but lost 1991 Lok Sabha polls from Nandyal. In 1999 he also contested unsuccessfully for Assembly.
He was first elected to Lok Sabha in 2004 on Congress party ticket. He retained the seat in 2009. He was re-elected for the third time in 2014 as a candidate of YSRCP but subsequently defected to Telugu Desam Party (TDP).
As TDP denied him ticket, he quit the party to join Jana Sena of actor-politician Pawan Kalyan and at the last minute filed his nomination from Nandyal.
Jana Sena Party chief and actor-politician Pawan Kalyan, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu and YSRCP leader Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy have condoled the death of S P Y Reddy. All of them also conveyed their condolences to the bereaved family members.
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