Nagasandra Hanumantha Shivashankara Reddy is an Indian politician who is a former Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from the INC.

Reddy was first elected to the Karnataka legislative assembly in 1999 as an independent candidate after being denied an INC ticket.

In the subsequent three State legislative assembly elections, Reddy contested as an INC nominee and won each time.

[1]He was denied entry into Siddaramaiah's cabinet inspite of serving as an MLA for a long time.

In 2023 General Elections to Legislative Assembly, Gauribidanur constituency, he lost by a margin of about 37,000 votes to K H Puttaswamy Gowda(Independent).