India Mourns Y S Rajasekhar Reddy
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy was found dead on Thursday along with four other occupants of the state government helicopter which flew into a hillock in the thick forests of the Nallamalai Hills in Kurnool district in inclement weather.
YSR's body, badly charred in the fire after the crash on Wednesday forenoon, was winched into an IAF helicopter and brought to Hyderabad, where it lay in state at his camp office at Begumpet in the heart of the city.
Thousands of people joined the cortege as it drove from the airport to the camp office. Tens of thousands of people, rich and poor alike, queued up to pay tribute to their leader, who was known as a champion of the poor.
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YSR's body, badly charred in the fire after the crash on Wednesday forenoon, was winched into an IAF helicopter and brought to Hyderabad, where it lay in state at his camp office at Begumpet in the heart of the city.
Thousands of people joined the cortege as it drove from the airport to the camp office. Tens of thousands of people, rich and poor alike, queued up to pay tribute to their leader, who was known as a champion of the poor.
To read the full article, click here...
To read the ePaper, visit: http://epaper.asianage.com
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