Andhra Pradesh’s Minister of Industry and Information Technology Mekapati Gowtham Reddy, who died of cardiac arrest here on Monday, was a fitness enthusiast and regularly trained in the gym.
On Monday morning, he collapsed at his home in Jubilee Hills and was taken to Apollo Hospital, but was preparing to leave for Jim when he couldn’t be revived. He was 49 years old.
One of the servants of his house said he had coffee around 6am every day and left for the gym from 7am to 7:30 am. To find him lying on the couch.
“He was unresponsive and we all moved him to the hospital,” the employee said.
Returning from Dubai at 4am on Sunday, Gowtham Reddy spent the day in his residence and went out to attend his engagement at night. He got home by 9 pm and woke up around 6 am almost every day.
Employees said the minister regularly attended the gym every morning and evening. His colleague in the Cabinet, the leader of the YSR Parliamentary Party (YSRCP), and the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP), let him focus on physical fitness and pay attention to their health to others. I remembered what I advised.
TDP leader and former minister Somi Lady Chandramohan Lady said she met Gotham Lady in her engagement last night.
“I met him last night at 8.30, and I can’t believe he wasn’t with us at 8.30 in the morning,” he said.
One of the minister’s aides said he had no health problems and had never visited the hospital despite his fever.
Last April, he tested positive for Covid-19 with mild symptoms, but recovered at home.
Gowtham Reddy, the son of former MP Mekapati Rajmohan Reddy, received a college education in Hyderabad. He received his Master of Textiles degree from Manchester University of Science and Technology (UMIST) in Manchester, England in 1997. He was one of the directors of the family company KMC Constructions.
Gotham entered politics in the footsteps of his father and was elected to Congress in 2014 by the Atmacour constituency in his hometown of Nerol with a YSRCP ticket.
He maintained his seat in 2019 and became Minister of Industry and Information Technology.
A well-educated and well-defined leader, he has a friendly and friendly personality and is popular among people and even among political rivals.
Opposition leaders recall that he was never a controversial man who never used harsh words, even while criticizing his political rivals.
Gowtham Reddy is survived by his wife Srikirti Reddy, businessman, daughter Sai Ananya Reddy, and son Krishna Arjun.
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