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{{Infobox Indian politician
| name = Kethi Reddy Suresh Reddy
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| birth_date ={{birth_date and age|1959|5|25|df=y}}<ref>rajyasabha.nic}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Choutapally]]
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| constituency = [[Telangana]]
| office = [[Rajya Sabha|Member Of Parliament ]]<br/>
| term_start = 10 April 2020
| predecessor = [[K. V. P. Ramachandra Rao]]
| successor =
| constituency1 = Armoor
| office1 = [[Speaker (politics)|Speaker]] of [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
| term1 = 2004 - 2009
| predecessor1 = [[K. Pratibha Bharati]]
| successor1 = [[Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy]]
| party =[[Telangana Rashtra Samithi]]
| otherparty = [[Indian National Congress]]
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| website = [http://www.krsureshreddy.com www.krsureshreddy.com]
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'''Kethi Reddy Suresh Reddy''' is an Indian politician who is the current [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha|Member of Rajya Sabha]] from Telangana since from 2020. He was the [[Speaker (politics)|Speaker]] of the [[Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh]] from 2004 to 2009.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Suresh-Reddy-lobbies-for-council-seat/articleshow/7869600.cms|title=Suresh Reddy lobbies for council seat | date=5 April 2011 |accessdate=24 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Title unknown|url=http://www.hindu.com/2011/05/07/stories/2011050754400500.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927232127/http://www.hindu.com/2011/05/07/stories/2011050754400500.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 September 2013|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=2011-05-07|accessdate=16 July 2012}}</ref>

== Political career ==
Reddy has had a political career spanning nearly two decades and is a four-time [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] from the [[Balkonda (State Assembly Constituency)|Balkonda assembly constituency]]. He became Speaker of the [[Twelfth Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] at the age of 45 having begun his career in politics as a [[mandal]]-level leader in 1984. He was the first person from [[Nizamabad district]] to act as Speaker.

Reddy, began his political career as the mandal Youth Congress president in 1984. In 1989 the former Chief Minister, [[M. Channa Reddy]], nominated him as the candidate from Balkonda constituency. He won that and went on to win it again in the 1994, 1999 and 2004 elections, equalling the record of former Finance Minister, [[Argul Rajaram]] in that constituency. He was also one of only two INC candidates to win in the Telangana region in the 1994 election, with the other being [[D. Redya Naik]].

In 2009, due to [[delimitation]], the Balkonda constituency was reorganised. Reddy was asked by former Chief Minister [[Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy]] to contest instead the [[Armur (Assembly constituency)|Armur constituency]]. He lost that election, in part due to the effect of the alliance between the [[Telugu Desam Party]] and TRS, as well as the emergence of [[Chiranjeevi]]'s PRP party

During his stint as an MLA, he was the Library Committee Chairman of the Assembly from 1990 to 1993. In 1997, he became chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, and he also served as the Congress party whip from 2000-2003.

Senior Congress leader and former Assembly Speaker, K. R. Suresh Reddy on 7 September 2018 announced his decision to join the TRS not for any "political gains" but to be part of the "silent revolution" for the progress and development of Telangana State.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indtoday.com/former-speaker-suresh-reddy-joins-trs/|title = Former Speaker Suresh Reddy Joins TRS | INDToday|date = 7 September 2018}}</ref>

== Positions held in political career ==

* Speaker, Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly during 2004-09
* Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Executive Committee
* Member, Standing Committee of the All India Presiding Officers, regional representative of India Region
* Member, Indian Region Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Executive Committee
* President, Andhra Pradesh branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
* 1999-2009, Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
* Director, Andhra Pradesh Industrial Development Corporation
* INC Whip in the Andhra Pradesh assembly
* Member, Committee on Estimates
* Chairman, Public Accounts Committee
* Member, Cricket Association of Telangana

== References ==
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[[Category:1959 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Speakers of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Telangana]]
[[Category:Members of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:Telangana Rashtra Samithi politicians]]

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