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Grief Outpours as YSR Laid to Rest in Native Town

Tens of thousands of people from all over the Andhra Pradesh and other places turned out to pay their homage to late chief minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy, whose body was kept at a stadium in Hyderabad before being flown to his native town Pulivendula in Kadapa district for his last rites at noon. Much of the state shut down to pay their respect to the departed soul.

Reddy’s funeral cortege snaked its way through surging crowds from his home in Hyderabad to the stadium where national leaders and people lined up to pay homage.

Thousands of others accompanied the funeral procession and hundreds of vehicles followed the flower bedecked truck in which the body, draped in the national flag, was kept. Standing by the side of his father’s body was his MP son YS Jaganmohan Reddy, who was appealing to people to allow the vehicle to move.

Grieving men and women were standing on either side of the road and on rooftops to bid adieu to the man who ruled their hearts through a series of pro-poor schemes.

The body was then flown on Friday afternoon to Pulivendula, his native town in Kadapa district, for burial. The body was flown in an army helicopter from Begumpet airport here after thousands of people paid their last respects at the L S Stadium in Hyderbad.

YSR, who died in a chopper crash Wednesday, will be laid to rest at the family estate Edupulapaya in Pulivendula town by the side of his parents.

Earlier, several people were injured in a stampede at the Lal Bahadur Stadium, forcing authorities to move the body of the late Andhra Pradesh CM an hour before schedule.

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