Dwarampudi Chandrasekhar Reddy

Dwarampudi Chandrasekhara Reddy (born 1967) is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He was a former member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He was elected from Kakinada City representing the YSR Congress Party.

Early life Reddy is from Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. He married D Mahalakshmi and together they have two children. He is the son of D Bhaskara Reddy. He studied intermediate (Class 12) at Ideal College of Arts and Science, Kakinada, and passed the examinations in 1984.

Reddy was first elected as an MLA from Kakinada City Assembly constituency representing the Indian National Congress in the 2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. In 2009, he polled 44,606 votes and defeated his closest opponent, Bandana Hari of the Prajarajyam Party, by a margin of 9,279 votes.

He was a close associate of Jagan Mohan Reddy and shifted to YSR Congress Party during the bifurcation and contested the 2014 election as a YSR Congress Party candidate. In the 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, he contested from the same seat and got 52,467 votes but lost to winner, Vanamadi Venkateswara Rao of the Telugu Desam Party, by a margin of 24,000 votes. However, in 2024, he lost by a margin of 56,000 votes to Vanamadi Venkateswara Rao.