HYDERABAD: Rajya Sabha member T Subbarami Reddy has been re-elected as treasurer for the Congress Parliamentary Party which has 112 MPs in the Lower and Upper Houses. Rajiv Shukla has been elected secretary. Reacting to his re-election, Reddy has said he is elated over the party choosing him for the assignment for the second time. Reddy has been a member of Parliament since 1996 either of Lok Sabha or of Rajya Sabha.
He was elected to the 11th and 12th Lok SAbha in 1996 and 1998 from Visakhapatnam, and to the Rajya Sabha in 2002 and is continuing in that position for the third term. He served as minister of state for mines between 2006 and 2008. In 2012 he lost a by-election to the Lok Sabha from Nellore to YSRC candidate M Rajamohan Reddy.