Hyderabad: Senior Congress legislator from Telangana region K R Suresh Reddy was today (June 01 2004) unanimously elected speaker of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

Reddy's unanimous election to the post was announced by the pro-tem speaker P Sambasiva Raju as soon as the house assembled for the day.

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Reddy, a four-time legislator representing Balkonda constituency in Nizamabad district, was escorted to the speaker's chair by Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, leader of the Opposition N Chandrababu Naidu and senior ministers.

All the political parties supported the candidature of the 45-year-old Reddy and 18 sets of nominations were filed yesterday (May 31 2004) on his behalf.