Mr Reddy was the last man from Andhra who Rajiv Gandhi met a few hours before his death. With tears welling up in his eyes, he recalled a brief meeting organised by the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee in the venue, “When I called on Rajivji in Chennai before he left for Sriperumbudur, he asked me to work for the Congress’ victory in Parliamentary elections.
Taking orders from him, I was attending election meetings in Nellore when I received a call that he was dead. Since then, I keep coming to the site every year in his memory.” Y.S.Rajashekera Reddy’s government, he said, had been implementing all programmes named either after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi. He wanted the Congress to come to power in Tamil Nadu too.
He brought with him about thousand workers in a motorcade of hundred vehicles and also organised poor feeding. The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee too came on a yatra carrying Rajiv jyoti from Bangalore to Siperumbudur under the leadership of its labour department convenor S.S.Prakasam. Carrying a torch, he, along with his party men, went around the mural in silence.
Mr Reddy was the last man from Andhra who Rajiv Gandhi met a few hours before his death. With tears welling up in his eyes, he recalled a brief meeting organised by the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee in the venue, “When I called on Rajivji in Chennai before he left for Sriperumbudur, he asked me to work for the Congress’ victory in Parliamentary elections.
Taking orders from him, I was attending election meetings in Nellore when I received a call that he was dead. Since then, I keep coming to the site every year in his memory.” Y.S.Rajashekera Reddy’s government, he said, had been implementing all programmes named either after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi. He wanted the Congress to come to power in Tamil Nadu too.
He brought with him about thousand workers in a motorcade of hundred vehicles and also organised poor feeding. The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee too came on a yatra carrying Rajiv jyoti from Bangalore to Siperumbudur under the leadership of its labour department convenor S.S.Prakasam.