Jagga Reddy meeting Harish after 14 years surprise MLAs

Hyderabad: The legislators in the Assembly lobbies were puzzled when Congress MLA from Sangareddy T Jayaprakash Reddy alias Jagga Reddy met his arch-rival and State Finance Minister T Harish Rao and held a one-to-one meeting for more than 30 minutes in the minister's chambers in the Assembly on Thursday.

Jagga Reddy, who was one of the strong TRS leaders till 2006, shifted loyalties to Congress and fighting against Harish political domination in the old Medak district.

Reddy softened his approach towards TRS after 2018 elections. In an informal interaction with press persons, Reddy said he spoke to Harish after 14 years.

He brought the pending issues to the notice of the minister and requested to solve them in his constituency. He said he appealed to Harish to lend a helping hand to solve the problems and the latter responded positively.

Referring to his party affairs, Reddy said differences among his party senior leaders were common like in any other party.

Commenting on Nalgonda district, Jagga Reddy said TPCC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy has freedom to select party candidate for the ensuing by-election in his Huzurnagar Assembly constituency but the party high command will have final say in the matter.