Yeduguri Sandinti Vivekananda Reddy (8 August 1951 – 15 March 2019) was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India.
On 30 November 2010, he became Agriculture Minister in the Andhra Pradesh cabinet headed by N. Kiran Kumar Reddy.
He stood as the Congress candidate against his sister-in-law and just managed to secure his deposit after finishing in second place but some 80,000 votes behind Y. S.
[5][6] As per post-mortem reports, Vivekananda Reddy has been brutally murdered and found at his residence in Kadapa on 15 March 2019.
[11] Jaganmohan Reddy petitioned the High court seeking a CBI inquiry into his uncle's murder.
[13] In March 2020, the High Court expressed dissatisfaction over the lack of progress in the investigation by the state police as the murder completed a year.
[15] In February 2023, CBI mentioned that Y. S. Avinash Reddy tried to conceal the design of the murder by creating a false theory of heart attack in the counter affidavit filed in the Telangana High court.
[16][17] In March 2023, the Supreme Court of India expressed dissatisfaction on the status report submitted by the CBI by stating that the process of investigation is hindered and delayed allowing the original culprits to escape.