INDIA bloc’s VP pick had once pulled up UPA govt over black money issue

In 2011, when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government was dealing with a raft of allegations related to corruption, it was pulled up by the Supreme Court for “sleeping” on the issue of black money, and ordered to set up a special investigation team.

- Srinivasa Rao Apparasu

One of the judges who passed that order, B Sudershan Reddy, 79, was on Tuesday named by the INDIA bloc of Opposition parties, in which the Congress is the largest constituent (by MPs), as its vice presidential candidate.

That was one of the last orders of Reddy in the Supreme Court, where he was a judge between 2007 and 2011.

‘An expert on the Constitution — he has written a book on the Preamble — and an admirer of both BR Ambedkar and Jawaharlal Nehru, Reddy was born in an agricultural family on July 8, 1946 at Akula Mylaram village of Kandukur block in Ranga Reddy district of Telangana, then part of the princely state of Hyderabad. Reddy graduated in law from Osmania University in Hyderabad in 1971.