“There are others to vote for. I’ll vote for Revanth Reddy. He’s the one who fights arduous with TRS and KCR. Now we have to decide on an individual who is not going to be a part of TRS after successful the elections. ”
These had been the phrases of a girl aged over 70 on the day of polling for Lok Sabha elections within the Malkajgiri constituency. Her want was fulfilled too as Reddy, who on Wednesday took over as president of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee, was elected MP from the most important Lok Sabha seat within the nation.
Reddy’s elevation has not come as a shock to many, although there have been a number of voices towards him. A robust orator, he has all the time waged a battle towards the ruling TRS and the chief minister’s household.
The 51-year-old has been energetic in pupil politics since his faculty days. Throughout his commencement days, he joined the All India Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) at Osmania College.
Reddy then started his affiliation with the Telangana Rashtra Samathi, his present bête noire, and entered energetic politics.
Within the 2004 polls, Reddy was anticipating a celebration ticket from the Kalwakurthi constituency. Nonetheless, his hopes had been dashed when the TRS joined fingers with the Congress and the Kalwakurthi seat was allotted to the grand outdated social gathering.
He was as soon as once more unable to get a TRS ticket to contest the Zilla Parishad elections. However this time, Reddy contested as an impartial candidate and gained the elections.
Reddy then entered the legislative council in 2007 as an impartial candidate, successful as an MLC.
After that, he joined the Telugu Desam Get together and who contested from Kodangal constituency within the 2009 meeting elections. He gained with a majority of practically 7,000 votes, defeating his rival — Congress candidate Gurunath Reddy — who had served as an MLA 5 instances in a row.
Reddy’s assaults on the ruling social gathering quickly drew everybody’s consideration. As an opposition MLA, the then Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy was accused of a number of corruption circumstances.
Through the Telangana motion, Reddy remained with the TDP, which was identified for supporting the thought of a united Andhra Pradesh.
Reddy additionally gained the 2014 elections as an MLA from Kodangal for the second time. He was later elected Telugu Desam Get together flooring chief within the Legislative Meeting and dealing president of the social gathering.
After the formation of Telangana state, the remaining MLAs who gained from Telugu Desam social gathering joined TRS as a part of Operation Aakash launched by KCR within the title of political reunification.
In 2015, Reddy was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau after he was caught on digicam giving Rs 50 lakh to Elvis Stephenson, the nominee legislator, to assist the TDP candidate within the MLC elections.
From then on, politics in Telangana modified quickly.
As a part of the ACB case, audio tapes containing the voice of then AP Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu got here out. The AP capital was moved to Vijayawada, with strategic stress of KCR on Chandrababu.
MLAs and MPs of the TDP quickly flocked to the TRS. Realising that there was no future for the TDP, Reddy joined the Congress social gathering in 2017. He was made the social gathering’s working president and in addition canvassed as a star campaigner on behalf of the social gathering within the 2018 meeting elections.
At one stage, there have been rumours that Reddy is the chief ministerial candidate of the Congress social gathering. Nonetheless, his defeat in his personal constituency, Kondagal, put the excitement to relaxation.
Reddy then examined his luck within the 2019 parliamentary elections and was elected as an MP from Malkajgiri parliament constituency.
The chief’s elevation as PCC president has not gone down effectively with a piece of senior leaders within the social gathering. Nonetheless, quickly after his appointment, Reddy met all of the functionaries in a transparent sign that he would work with them for the way forward for the social gathering.
“Some leaders opposed my candidature. These are all variations of opinion within the social gathering, not variations,” mentioned Reddy.
Speaking about Reddy’s new position, Subramaniam, a senior journalist, mentioned: “It’s a good determination taken by the Congress social gathering however too late. Reddy is a frontrunner who is of course aggressive and able to mobilising the plenty. Different leaders are all outdated. A few of those that left the Congress and joined BJP and the TRS might imagine once more and be a part of Congress once more. Reddy made the Congress an alternate of TRS. Now we have to see the way it works out.”
Reddy was born on November 8, 1969, in an agriculture household and married Geeta, who’s a detailed relative of former Union Minister Jaipal Reddy. They’ve a daughter named Naimisha Reddy for whose engagement in 2015, Reddy was out on parole.
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