Manda Jagannadham made Telangana's special representative in Delhi

 ​Hyderabad:  Close on the heels of joining of many senior Congress leaders from old Mahbubnagar district in the ruling TRS, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Saturday nominated party senior leader and former MP Manda Jagannadham as Special Representative to the Telangana government in New Delhi with Cabinet minister status. 

Jagannadham, who hails from the same district, has been maintaining distance from participating in party programmes as he was not given any post ever since KCR assumed office of the Chief Minister in 2014. 

Jagannadham was appointed government’s special representative in New Delhi on the same day senior Congress leader and MLC K Damodar Reddy and former MLAs E Krishna Reddy and Abraham (all from Mahbubnagar) joined the TRS.  

In a bid to placate the senior TRS leader following the joining of many Congress leaders, Jagannadham was given the Cabinet rank post ahead of the 2019 elections.  He will continue in the post for a period of one year. Jagannadham is the second leader in the post after Venugopala Chary was appointed government’s special representative in Delhi earlier.