Sr IAS officer Dhananjay Reddy retires

Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer K Dhananjay Reddy, who is considered very close to YSRCP president and Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, retired on Friday. A 2006-batch IAS officer, Dhananjay Reddy, hailing from Kadapa district, has been working as Additional Secretary to the Chief Minister since Jagan Mohan Reddy came to power in 2019.
The non-cadre state civil services officer made his way as an lAS in 2006 and with patronage from YS Rajasekhar Reddy when he was the chief minister. Subsequently, he rose as a powerful officer. Such was his clout that he even played a crucial role in the selection of YSRCP candidates in the just-concluded Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in the State, as he had the dossiers of each ticket aspirant.