Kiran Reddy takes over as Andhra chief minister

Reddy was named as Rosaiah's successor by the Congress legislative party on Wednesday evening

PTI | November 25, 2010



A YSR loyalist and four-time MLA, Andhra Pradesh speaker Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy, who has been selected to be the new chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, faces the daunting task to revitalize the party ridden by dissidence.

A legislator from his native Chittoor district in the Rayalaseema region of the state, 50-year-old Reddy will have to also use all his political acumen to take on the challenge posed by Congress' rebel Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.

Considered a close follower of late chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, Kiran Kumar Reddy was made the government Chief Whip, a role he had effectively discharged to take on the principal opposition Telugu Desam Party in general and his bete noire N Chandrababu Naidu in particular.

Son of late Congress leader Amarnatha Reddy, who was was the political guru of TDP chief Naidu, Reddy graduated from the Nizam College in Hyderabad and later studied law.

An avid cricketer during his college days and a batchmate of former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin, Reddy has represented Hyderabad in the Ranji Trophy.

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