Uttam Kumar Reddy is the Congress leader and the current Lok Sabha member from Nalgonda in Telangana. He is Telangana's former Congress state chief (2015 to 2021). In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Uttam Kumar Reddy won the Nalgonda parliamentary constituency by defeating Telangana Rashtra Samithi's (TRS) Vemireddy Narasimha Reddy with a margin of 25,682 votes. Reddy contested the 1994 Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election from the Kodad constituency but was defeated by the Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) Chander Rao Venepally. However, Uttam Kumar Reddy won back-to-back elections from Kodad in 1999 and 2004 by defeating Venepally. In the 2009 Assembly polls, he won the Huzurnagar constituency by defeating TRS candidate Jagadeesh Reddy Guntakandla with a margin of 29,194 votes. In the 2014 polls, Reddy again won the seat by defeating TRS candidate Kasoju Shankaramma with a margin of 23,924 votes. He also won the seat in 2018 and left it after being elected as the Nalgonda Lok Sabha member in 2019. Reddy also served as the Andhra Pradesh Minister of Housing in the N Kiran Kumar Reddy's Cabinet. He was also a former Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot. Reddy is again contesting from Huzurnagar in the upcoming Telangana Assembly Election 2023. Shanampudi Saidireddy from BRS and Challa Srilatha Reddy from BJP are his competitors.