Anam Vivekananda Reddy

Anam Vivekananda Reddy
Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
1999–2014
Constituency Nellore Rural
Personal details
Born (1950-12-23)23 December 1950
Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh, India
Died 25 April 2018(2018-04-25) (aged 67)
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Political party INC till 2015 and TDP
Spouse(s) Himavathi Anam
Children Anam Chenchu Subba Reddy, Anam Ranga Mayur Reddy
Website https://www.facebook.com/viveka.anam

Anam Vivekananda Reddy, better known as Anam Viveka, was an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He was a member of Indian National Congress and joined Telugu Desam Party in 2016.

Early life

Anam Vivekananda Reddy was born in Nellore to Anam Venkata Reddy. He was also the nephew of the Late Anam Chenchu Subba Reddy garu, a famous political leader from Andhra Pradesh during pre and post Indian independence. He was the brother of Anam Ramanarayana Reddy, who was the minister for Information and Public Relations in the cabinets of YS Rajasekhar Reddy, K Rosaiah and also the minister for finance in the cabinet of N. Kiran Kumar Reddy. One of his cousin Musunuru Vinod Kumar also started his political career in the Aam Aadmi Party Youth convener. Viveka gained a B.A from V.R.College, Nellore.

Personal life

Anam Vivekananda Reddy was married to A. Himavathi from Duvvuru, a district in Nellore and they have two sons together Anam Chenchu Subba Reddy, and Anam Ranga Mayur Reddy who are also into politics. Sports and games were Viveka's hobbies.

Career

Vivekananda Reddy was elected a Member of Legislative Assembly thrice to the AP Assembly. He also served as President of District Land Mortgage Bank, Nellore (1982), Councillor and Vice-Chairman of Nellore Municipality (1982), President of District Central Co- Operative Bank, Nellore, Correspondent and Secretary of S.V.G.S. College, Nellore (1988) and V.R. College, Nellore (1988), Chairman of Sri Venugopala Swmay Temple, Nellore (1994), Municipality of Nellore (1995) and President of Chamber of Municipal Chairman, 1996.

Political career

Being in politics since many years, Vivekananda Reddy took an official retirement in the year 2014, which furnished his sons with the opportunity to take over his position as his successor in politics. The Anam brothers have political rivalry with the Mekapati brothers in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh. MP of the Congress Party Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy was and his MLA brother Mekapati Chandra Sekhar Reddy remains strong supporters of YSR Congress Party and Jagan Mohan Reddy. Both groups might have influenced the district politics to a greater extent which resulted long vasting change in the 2014 Assembly elections. Later in 2016, Anam brothers joined Telugu Desam Party in the presence of Andhra pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu.

Death

Anam vivekananda reddy died on 25th April 2018 at KIMS hospital Hyderabad after prolonged illness in 2018."Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu paid his last respects to the mortal remains of MLA and TDP leader at his residence."[1][2][3]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/naidu-pays-his-last-respects-to-vivekananda-reddy/article23687991.ece
  2. ↑ http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Andhra-Pradesh/2018-03-02/Anam-Viveka-hospitalised-/362857
  3. ↑ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toierrorfound.cms?url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/amaravati/telugu-desam-party-leader-anam-vivekananda-passes-away/amp_articleshow/63907237.cms
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