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Former Chevella MLA and Managing Director of News & Services Syndicate (NSS) Konda Lakshma Reddy passed distant portion undergoing attraction for age-related ailments astatine Apollo Hospital successful Hyderabad connected Monday (October 13, 2025). He was 84 and breathed his past astatine 5.30 a.m.
A grandson of erstwhile Deputy Chief Minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh Konda Venkata Ranga Reddy, Lakshma Reddy had a agelong relation with the Congress enactment and held respective cardinal positions, including Spokesperson and Chairman of the Grievance Cell of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC). He besides served arsenic Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Sports Council.
Lakshma Reddy began his governmental travel with the Congress and remained loyal to the enactment passim his career. He contested the Lok Sabha elections from the Hyderabad constituency successful 1999 and 2014 but was unsuccessful connected some occasions.
He founded the section quality bureau NSS successful 1980, which served arsenic a level for galore aspiring journalists. And galore of whom went connected to found palmy careers successful the media. Under his leadership, NSS became a grooming crushed and employment root for hundreds of young journalists, catering to the quality requirements of tiny and mean newspapers crossed the State.
He besides served arsenic President of the Hyderabad Press Club, President of the Journalists’ Cooperative Housing Association, and arsenic a subordinate of the Executive Committee of the United Andhra Pradesh Working Journalists’ Union. Known for his humane attack and guidance, Lakshma Reddy was wide respected for offering applicable suggestions and encouragement to budding journalists passim his caree.
Telangana Media Academy chairman K. Sreenivas Reddy, Indian Journalists Union (IJU) Secretary Y. Narender Reddy, Telangana Union of Working Journalists (TUWJ) President K. Virahat Ali and General Secretary Ram Narayana expressed their condolences connected the demise of Konda Lakshma Reddy. They recalled their relation with him successful assorted writer bodies and his contributions to the payment of the media fraternity.
