Senior TRS leader and former Home Minister of Telangana Nayani Narasimha Reddy died here on Thursday. He was 76.

Hyderabad: Senior TRS leader and former Home Minister of Telangana Nayani Narasimha Reddy died here on Thursday. He was 76.

Nayani Narasimha Reddy

Reddy, who served as the first Home Minister of Telangana after its formation in 2014, had been undergoing treatment at a private super-speciality hospital here for post-Covid complications with lung damage and died at 12.25 AM, hospital sources said.

Reddy, a senior trade union leader in Hyderabad, had played an active role in the separate Telangana agitation.

Nayani Narasimha Reddy

He was elected to the Legislative Assembly in undivided Andhra Pradesh for three terms in 1978, 1985 and 2004.

Reddy had served as minister in the government of late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy when TRS, then an ally of Congress, joined the government in 2004.