BRS pays tributes to Nayini Narsimha Reddy
HYDERABAD
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has paid tributes to party leader and the first Home Minister of Telangana Nayini Narsimha Reddy on his 85th birth anniversary on Monday (May 12).
Leading the party leaders and ranks in paying floral tributes to a portrait of the late leader, working president of the party K.T. Rama Rao, recollected how Nayini and KCR (K. Chandrasekhar Rao) had worked as comrades in arms for two decades in the Telangana movement.
Mr. Rama Rao recalled how Nayini had worked for the party and the government even in his 70s. He noted how Nayini had sent his resignation letter as the Cabinet member (minister) in the Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy government from the US, where he was on a visit, when the party had decided to come out of the government as part of the Statehood movement in 2006.
The BRS working president also hailed Nayini's role as the trade union leader who would always take the side of the workers. Party MLC and former Speaker S. Madhusudana Chary said Nayini had always practised politics with values, and how he had walked along KCR through the thick and thin of the Statehood movement.
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