Setting aside political differences, leaders of various trade unions got together to shower paraises on Reddy, who heads one of India's largest central trade unions.
The reception was arranged on the sidelines of the national working committee of INTUC being in Kollam, one of country's oldest industrial towns and the cradle of trade union movement in the state.
Veteran CITU leader P K Gurudasan lit the lamp at a function held here to honour Reddy.