Congress leader and former Union minister Jaipal Reddy died at a hospital in Hyderabad early hours of Sunday. 77-year-old Reddy was diagnosed with pneumonia and was admitted to a hospital. Elected to the Parliament for the first time in 1984, he served as the information and broadcasting minister in IK Gujral government. During the UPA-1 and UPA-2 governments he held key portfolios as a union minister.