Career
She served as the chairperson of Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) and was the spokesperson for Prajarajyam party, having previously been General Secretary and also a state committee member in Telugu Desam Party. In 2012, she left the Prajarajyam party and joined the newly formed YSR Congress. Shobha Nagireddy was the younger daughter of South. V. Subba Reddy, a politician and former minister from Andhra Pradesh.
She was born and brought up in Allagadda, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh where she studied up to Intermediate.
Her younger brother, South.V. Mohan Reddy, is also a politician. Fighting as a candidate of Telugu Desam Party, she was elected to the vacant Assembly seat.
She was elected four times consecutively to the state Assembly. She is the only woman in Associated Press to have been legislator, along with her father, for two consecutive terms.
In 2004, she contested Nandyal Lok Sabha seat and was unsuccessful.
In 2011, after PRP merged with Incorporated, Sobha joined the YSR Congress party. Allagadda Assembly constituency could be Seema Andhra"s first election mandate post bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. In the late hours of 23 April 2014, the SUV (Mitsubishi) in which Shobha was travelling overturned near Gugagundam Metta.
She was returning after campaigning for the upcoming 2014 assembly elections.
Hours later, she died undergoing treatment in Care hospital in Hyderabad. She was 45 years old.