Reddy entered politics in 1993 as a founding member of the Minority Front before defecting to the Democratic Alliance (DA) in 2004.
[2] Classified as Indian under apartheid, he was chairperson of the student representative council at his high school and later at Durban's Springfield College of Education, where he qualified as a teacher with a specialisation in computer science teaching.
[3] While teaching full-time, Reddy became involved in politics through Amichand Rajbansi's Minority Front (MF), of which he was a founding member in 1993.
[3] After the end of apartheid in 1994, Reddy represented the MF as a local councillor, first in the Durban Unicity and then in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality.
Highlighting his friendship with Rajbansi and his involvement in the party's campaign ahead of the upcoming 2004 general election, he said that he would "be focusing all my energies on ensuring a MF victory".
[9] However, on 3 February 2004, Reddy announced at a press conference that he was resigning from the council and from the MF in order to join the DA, a larger opposition party.
[3] In the aftermath of the 2004 general election, the ANC's Mike Sutcliffe, municipal manager of eThekwini, hired Reddy as a contract consultant in his office.
[13] After leaving Sutcliffe's office, Reddy went on to work in administrative positions in the provincial Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, while rising in influence in the ANC.
Only a foolish Indian in South Africa will not engage the majority constructively...[17]He declined to retract his remarks afterwards, but said that they reflected his own views rather than those of the ANC.
[24] During this period, on 1 May 2019, Minister Gugile Nkwinti appointed Reddy to a four-year term as a member of the board of directors at Umgeni Water, a state-owned entity.
[25] In 2020, Reddy was elected as president of African Democratic Change (Adec), a minor political party founded by Makhosi Khoza.
He was an outspoken advocate for the use of Ivermectin in treating COVID-19, leading protests on the issue and taking a solution of the medicine during a Facebook livestream.
[28] Under Adec's banner, he stood as a candidate in the 2021 local elections and returned to the eThekwini council as a proportional-representation councillor in November 2021.
[31] On 9 March 2024, it was revealed that Reddy occupies the 9th position on the MK Party's parliamentary candidate list for the 2024 general elections.
[2] Their first-born child, a son named Nivashan, died in a road accident in October 1996 when he was 18 months old; the family's car was caught in a crosswind and trapped under a truck on Van Reenen's Pass near Ladysmith.