He won the 2014 Indian general election on former Union Minister Daggubati Purandeswari of BJP being a YSR Congress Party candidate.
He won re-election in 2024 against former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy of the Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of 76,000 votes.
His paternal uncle P. Dwarakanath Reddy was elected to Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Thamballapalle in 2019 with highest majority in the Chittoor district.
[5] On 26 November 2015, he allegedly slapped[6] or assaulted a Station Manager S. Rajasekhar of Air India at Tirupati Airport and a criminal case registered against him on his arrival from Bangkok around 01:30 pm on issuing boarding passes.
Air India Staffer sustained fractures in the Rib cage and spine and was shifted to a private Hospital in Hyderabad.