Congress leader P Janardhan Reddy dead

Syed Amin Jafri | December 28, 2007 
 Senior Congress leader and five-term legislator P Janardhan Reddy died of a massive heart attack on Friday morning. He was 60.Janardhan Reddy, who was popularly known as PJR, was on his way from his residence at Gaganmahal to Greater Hyderabad Congress Committee meeting at Jewel Gardens in Secunderabad when he suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed in his car. His supporters immediately rushed him to the nearby Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences where he breathed his last.Doctors’ attempts to revive him proved futile. He is survived by his wife Sulochana, three daughters and a son.

Elected to the Andhra Pradesh assembly for five terms (1978, 1985, 1989, 1994 and 2004) from Khairatabad constituency in Hyderabad, PJR was Congress Legislature Party leader during 1994-99 when he led the 26-member Congress group in the assembly and played an effective Leader of Opposition during the regimes of N T Rama Rao and N Chandrababu Naidu. (more…)


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