Poignant scenes were witnessed as the mortal remains of Information Technology Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy, who died of heart attack in Hyderabad on Monday, were brought in an air ambulance to the helipad at the police parade grounds here on Tuesday.
Slogans such as ‘Goutham Reddy Amar Rahe’, ‘Johar Goutham Anna‘ reverberated as a large number of his admirers followed the decorated vehicle that was taken out in a procession from the police parade grounds. People from different walks of life paid their last respects to the Industries Minister as his body was brought in a flower-bedecked vehicle to his Dykes Road residence here.
Cabinet colleagues of Goutham Reddy including M. Sucharitha, Balineni Srinivasa Reddy, A. Suresh, Gummanarur Jayaram and Anil Kumar Yadav placed wreaths on his body draped with national flag.
