Hyderabad: Apart from Nandamuri Harikrishna, senior Telugu Desam leaders also met untimely deaths on the road or in other accidents. Former Union minister and TD senior leader K. Yerramnaidu had died in a road accident in his home district, Srikakulam, on November 2, 2012. While Harikrishna was heading to a marriage, Yerranadidu was returning from a marriage ceremony at Visakhapatnam when his car hit an oil tanker from behind near Ranasthalam in Srikakulam district. TD Politburo member and former MP SM Lal Jan Basha also died in a road accident on August 15, 2013. His vehicle rammed into the divider at Narkatpally in Nalgonda district.
Before that, TD MP and Lok Sabha Speaker G.M.C. Balayogi died on March 3, 2002, when a Bell 206 helicopter in which he was present, crashed in Kaikalur in Krishna district. And before that was TD minister A. Madhava Reddy who was killed in a landmine blast in 2000.
About a month later, the TD lost a former minister P. Indra Reddy when he was killed in a road accident on April 22, 2000. The car carrying Indra Reddy rammed into a stationary lorry near Shamshabad when he was returning to Hyderabad from his native place Chevella after attending a marriage. At that time he was a Congress MLA.
Meanwhile, several prominent personalities also lost their family members in road accidents. AP TD Minister P Narayana, MLAs Komatireddy Venkata Reddy
(Congress), Babu Mohan (TRS), former MLA (BJP) Kota Srinivasa Rao, Former Indian cricket captain Azaharuddin all lost their sons in accidents.
*2017 June: Famous Telugu actor Ravi Teja’s brother and actor Bharath died in a
road accident at Outer Ring Road (ORR).
* 2017 May: AP Minister P. Narayana’s son Nishith died in a road accident at
Jubilee Hills.
* 2014: Nandamuri Harikrishna’s son Janaki Ram died in a road accident in
Nalgonda district.
* 2014: YSR Congress MLA Shobha Nagireddy died in a road accident while
returning home after election campaign.
* 2013, August: TD Leader Lal Jan Bhasha died in a road accident at Narketpally in Nalgonda district.
* 2012, November: TD leader K Yerramnaidu died in a road accident in Srikakulam district.
* 2011, December: Congress MLA Komatireddy Venkata Reddy's son Pratik Reddy died in a road accident at Kollur in Rangareddy district.
* 2011, September: Former Indian cricket captain Azaharuddin's son Ayazuddin died in a road accident.
* 2010, June: Former BJP MLA and actor Kota Srinivasa Rao's son Kota Prasad died in a road accident near Outer Ring Road.
* 2003, October: TRS MLA and actor Babumohan son's Pavan Kumar died in an
accident at Jubilee Hills.
*2002, March: TD leader and Lok Sabha Speaker GMC Balayogi died in a
helicopter crash in Kaikalur in Krishna district.
* 2000 April: Former TD Minister P Indra Reddy died in a road accident near
Shamshabad.
* 2000 March: TD Minister A Madhava Reddy died in a landmine blast triggered by PWG Naxalites.
Balayogi, Yerramnaidu, Lal Jan Basha, Madhava Reddy, Indra Reddy and others in the list Prominent personalities lost their family members in road accidents
MLAs Komatireddy (Congress), Babumohan (TRS), Ex-BJP MLA Kota, Cricketer
Azaharuddin lost their sons in road accidents
