The last rites of the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajsekhar Reddy will be held with full state honours at his native place Pulivendula in Cuddapah district on Friday.
According to sources the burial of the departed Chief Minister will be held at around 2 pm. Before that, the dead chief minister’s body will lie in state at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium from Friday morning till about 1 pm to allow the general public and the political leadership to pay their last respects. It will then be flown to his native village in Cuddapah District for final rites.
The charred and decomposed bodies of Reddy and four others were airlifted by an Indian Air Force helicopter to state capital, where autopsy was conducted.
The Andhra Pradesh Government has declared seven days state mourning in honour of YSR and cancelled all the official programmes in the state and the national flag will be hoisted at half-mast.
Source: India express
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