Kotha Prabhakar Reddy

Kotha Prabhakar Reddy is an Indian politician who won a by-election held in 2014 for the Medak (Lok Sabha constituency) being Bharat Rashtra Samithi candidate. He won by a margin of 3,61,277 votes in the by-poll, which was a shock for the opposition who had expected the ruling TRS party to lose their seat after party head K. Chandrashekhar Rao had resigned from the seat after taking oath as the chief minister of the newly formed state Telangana. Kotha Prabhakar Reddy was born to a Farmer and had a humble beginning. On October 30, 2023, an unidentified person attacked Reddy with a knife in the stomach while posing as if to shake hands with him during a campaign in Siddipet district.

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