Hyderabad, July 31 -- Former Narsampet MLA and senior Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader Peddi Sudarshan Reddy passed away in the early hours of Friday while undergoing treatment at Yashoda Hospital in Secunderabad.

He was 52. He is survived by his wife, a son, and a daughter.

Hospital officials said Sudarshan Reddy breathed his last at 0051 hours after battling a severe pulmonary embolism and a lung infection. He had been admitted to the hospital on July 26 after suffering a massive heart attack in Hanamkonda.

Born on August 6, 1974, into a farmer's family in the village of Nallabelli in the erstwhile Warangal district, Sudarshan Reddy rose through the ranks in politics to become one of the prominent leaders of the Telangana movement....