Service to Congress

He was President of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) twice: 1983–1985 and 1998–2000. As the president of APCC, Reddy rendered yeoman services to the party in regaining the faith and trust of the masses. From 1999 to 2004 he was the Leader of Opposition in the eleventh state assembly.

Chief Minister

He was elected as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh by the Legislature party of the Indian National Congress after they later won 185 seats of the Legislative Assembly in the May 2004 elections. He has initiated a variety of programs that influence the Economy of Andhra Pradesh including free power supply for farmers, Jalayagnam – a large scale program to construct more than 70 pending irrigation projects in the state to improve irrigation facilities to the farmers, and an increase in the minimum support price for rice. Prominent among other programs include the controversial Rajiv Arogya Shree Program^[9] – a health insurance scheme for rural masses where the government pays the entire price of any surgery upto 200,000 rupee and does not require people to pay any premium, Pavala Vaddi – a program that provides loans to people at 3% per year so as to encourage them to take up small scale businesses and entrepreneurship primarily targeted at rural women, Indiramma illu – a program for construction of houses for the rural masses by charging a small amount and the government the remaining amount, a Rs 2/Kg rice scheme,^[10] reimbursement of full college fees for backward sections, reservations for minorities, and a huge loan waiver program for the farmers.

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