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YSR's body reaches Lal Bahadur Stadium, lies in state |
The flower-bedecked gun carriage carrying the coffin of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.
Rajsekhara Reddy has reached the Lal Bahudur Shastri Stadium and is lying in state
for the general public and politicians to pay their last respects and floral tribute.
Former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda and senior BJP leader L.K.Advani were among
the leaders who paid floral tribute to the departed leader. There was a sea of
humanity inside the stadium, and some of them were quite distraught and emotional
at seeing the cortege carrying the body of their son of the soil. The body of
the late chief minister will be taken to his village in Kadapa District around
2 p.m. Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and Congress
Party President Sonia Gandhi paid homage to former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister
Y.S. Rajsekhar Reddy at his official residence. Reddy, who died in a helicopter
crash along with four others on Wednesday morning, also received floral tribute
from other Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Defence Minister A K Antony
and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit at the Chief Minister's Camp office in Hyderabad's
Begumpet area. The leaders also wrote condolence messages in a book at the camp
office. Thereafter, the funeral cortege moved out of the premises and moved along
a designated route towards the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, where it will lie
in state for about three hours to allow the general public and politicians to
pay their last respects to the departed leader. The Andhra Pradesh capital was
a sea of grieving humanity as people from all walks of life gathered in tens of
thousands on major thoroughfares to give a fitting farewell to their son of the
soil, YSR. The flower bedecked army truck and funeral convoy, led by his emotionally
distressed son Jaganmohan Reddy, wound its way slowly through the streets of the
city towards the stadium. Jagan Reddy greeted the emotionally charged masses lining
the route with folded hands. Reddy's burial will be held at around 5 p. m. in
his native village in Kadapa District. The Andhra Pradesh Government has declared
five days of state mourning in honour of YSR and cancelled all the official programs
in the state. Reddy's Bell 430 chopper went missing on Wednesday morning at about
9.35 and could only be located almost 24 hours later on Thursday morning following
a night long search operation by different units of security personnel including
Army's Commandos, Air Force's Sukhoi-30, and 5,000 CRPF personnel. The wreckage
was discovered atop a hill about 40 nautical miles from Kurnoool town. Along with
YSR, four others-- Dr P Subramanium, the Special Secretary to the Chief Minister;
ASC Wesley, Chief Security Officer and two pilots Group Captain SK Bhatia and
Captain MS Reddy-died in the crash.
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