Devireddy Sudheer Reddy (born 27 July 1962) is an Indian politician from Telangana. He is a three time

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from Lal Bahadur Nagar Assembly constituency.

Early life and education

Reddy is from Lal Bahadur Nagar in Hyderabad. He married Kamala and they have two children.

Career

Reddy started his political career by becoming the youngest elected member of

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from

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constituency in 1986. He then became the first MLA from Lal Bahadur Nagar Assembly Constituency after the delimitation in 2009. He won the election by polling a total of 67510 votes. He was elected for the second time winning the

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from Lal Bahadur Nagar Assembly constituency. Reddy polled 113,980 votes and defeated his nearest rival Mudda Ram Mohan Goud of BRS by 17,848 votes. Goud plled 96,132 votes. Previously, he served as the Chairman of the

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from 2004 to 2008. He was also appointed Musi River Development Front Corporation Limited Chairman by Telangana government in February, 2020 for a period of three years.

Works as Chairman of the HUDA

Reddy spearheaded the planning and implementation of the Outer Ring Road. He spearheaded the planning, implementation, and completion of the P V Narasimha Rao expressway, which is India's longest at 11.6 kilometers. Reddy led several agitations for shifting of the garbage dump yard from Autonagar. In 2003, he requested the then combined Andhra Pradesh Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, to visit the dump yard. The entire garbage generated by the twin cities used to be dumped in a 40-acre dumping yard in the Autonagar area. Over one lakh people in the nearby 20 colonies and 10 villages were suffering from dangerous health hazards, and deaths in the region increased. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy raised this issue in an assembly session. Sudheer Reddy, after becoming the HUDA chairman, passed orders to shift the Autonagar dump yard from

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. Reddy took initiatives to protect the environment and lakes by installing sewage treatment plants. He said that sewage generated from the colonies in

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and

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had flowed into the lake for years, polluting Durgam Cheruvu. He has taken up initiative of plantation drive in 11 mandals, covering 109 panchayats outside the

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limits of Hyderabad. As a part of this program, two lakhs plants were planted in record time.

Padayatra

In 2003, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy began a 60-day, 1,500 km

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to highlight problems which were being faced by farmers due to drought. Sudheer Reddy accompanied Rajasekhara Reddy on the padayatra. Sudheer Reddy helped organise rallies and public meetings between villages with locals.

Family

Sudheer Reddy was born to D. Jayachandra Reddy and D. Chandrakala. His father was a government employee in the combined state of Andhra Pradesh. He is married to Devireddy Kamala Sudheer Reddy and has two children, namely Preetham and Goutham.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reddy, Devireddy Sudheer Living people Telangana MLAs 2018–2023 Andhra Pradesh MLAs 2009–2014 Bharat Rashtra Samithi politicians 1962 births Telangana MLAs 2023–2028 Indian National Congress politicians from Telangana