Andhra bids YSR a tearful adieu

Lakhs of people on Friday bid a tearful farewell to charismatic Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, who was killed in a helicopter crash, as his body was interred in his family’s expansive estate here after a state funeral.

The last rites were performed in this rural town in Pulivendla constituency after a galaxy of national leaders including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and leader of the Opposition LK Advani joined a sea of humanity that had all parts of the state to bid adieu to him in Hyderabad.

60-year-old Reddy’s son Jaganmohan (36), the cynosure of all eyes against the backdrop

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