Hyderabad: BRS president K. Chandrashekar Rao on Monday announced that the party was appointing its Rajya Sabha member K.R. Suresh Reddy as its Parliamentary Party leader.
Suresh Reddy will also be the floor leader of the party in the Rajya Sabha. The BRS does not have any representation in the Lok Sabha, losing from all the 17 seats it contested in the recent general elections.
According to a press release from the party, Rao on Monday wrote separate letters to the Rajya Sabha chairman and the Lok Sabha Speaker’s office, appointing Suresh Reddy as the BRSPP leader.
The position was earlier held by K. Keshava Rao, who was the BRS secretary-general until recently, before quitting the party to join the Congress in March in the run up to the Lok Sabha elections. Upon his departure, Chandrashekar Rao had said at a press conference that Suresh Reddy would be the BRS leader in Parliament.
Suresh Reddy, a former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in unified Andhra Pradesh, quit the Congress and joined the BRS in 2018. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha as a BRS candidate in 2020 and his term in the Upper House of the Parliament ends in 2026.
After Keshava Rao leaving the BRS, the party has four members in the Rajya Sabha including Suresh Reddy, V. Ravindra, B. Pardhasaradhi Reddy and D. Damodar Rao.
