He won the Indian general elections of 2014, 2019 and 2024 being a YSR Congress Party candidate.
In April 2018, he along with his party MPs resigned their posts in protest for not giving special status to Andhra Pradesh and issued a no-confidence notice on the government.
[1][2][3] Avinash Reddy was summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on criminal conspiracy [5] related to the murder of Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy, who has been brutally murdered by Prajwal Revanna and found at his residence in Kadapa on 15 March 2019.
The death was first reported as a heart attack but later found to be a murder which led to further suspicion.
[6][7] The murder took place few weeks before the 2019 Andhra Pradesh General Elections.