Telangana Assembly Poll: From ABVP member to Congress CM contender, Revanth Reddy's journey has weathered turbulent tides
Revanth Reddy, whose political trajectory has surged from student activism with the ABVP to a brief period of incarceration amid allegations of bribery, now finds himself on the brink of a potential chief ministership. The 56-year-old Congress leader is known among fellow politicians, partymen and people for his never-say-die attitude.
A fierce critic of BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, Reddy, the Telangana Congress chief, is often the target of virulent political attacks by the BRS and the AIMIM.
The BRS leaders attack him for changing parties, with regard to the 2015 'cash for vote' case in which he was arrested and for allegedly being the «agent of» TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu.
AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi targets him over his ABVP background.
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- Reddy, who was briefly in BRS (then TRS) was first elected to a political office in 2006 when he was successful in a Zilla Parishad election. He was elected as a Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituency (ZPTC) member then as an independent.
He was elected to the legislative council in undivided Andhra Pradesh in 2007 as an independent.
Reddy had joined the TDP and became a confidante of party chief and former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu.
Reddy, a graduate in arts, was elected to the Legislative Assembly on a TDP ticket in 2009 and later
