A pall of gloom descended on Brahamanapalli in SPSR Nellore district, the native village of Industries Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy who died of heart attack on Monday.
On coming to know of the untimely death of their leader, the villagers, including a large number of farmers, assembled at his ancestral house and wept inconsolably. They recalled the services rendered by the Minister along with his father and former YSR Congress Parliamentary Party leader Mekapati Rajmohan Reddy to improve the living conditions of the local people and augment civic infrastructure.