HYDERABAD: Veteran BJP leader and former MP Chandupatla Janga Reddy breathed his last on Saturday. He was the first BJP MP from the southern states post the formation of the saffron party in 1980.
He was 87. Janga Reddy defeated former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao from Hanmakonda Lok Sabha constituency in 1984 general elections. Janga Reddy and AK Patel were the only BJP candidates elected to the Lok Sabha in 1984 in the aftermath of then PM Indira Gandhi’s assassination. He was also elected to the legislative assembly in undivided Andhra Pradesh thrice.