[5] On 19 November 2022 Marri Shashidhar Reddy was expelled from congress party for six years for anti-party activities.

[6] He joined BJP on 25 November 2022 in New Delhi in presence of Party President J. P. Nadda, Union ministers Sarbananda Sonowal, G. Kishan Reddy along with senior leaders of Telangana.

[citation needed] Shashidhar Reddy earned a Master’s degree in Agronomy from the Kansas State University, USA, in 1973.

[10][11][12] He was an invited participant of the Shimla Chintan Shivir (High Level brainstorming Session) organised by All India Congress Committee (AICC) in 2003.

[13] He participated in an International Training Seminar on "Political Strategies" at Sintra, Portugal in 1994, which was organised by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation of Germany.