Hyderabad, April 12: The ‘Odarpu Yatra’ (solace tour) undertook by Congress MP from Kadapa Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, son of late CM Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, entered into Khammam district on Monday.
He is scheduled to tour 10 assembly constituencies and visit as many as 48 families which have lost one of their family members after Y S Rajasekhara Reddy died in a chopper crash in September last. Some of them committed suicide while some died due to heart failure after they come know the news of YSR’s death.
Jagan, who undertook a tour to console those families who have lost their loved one after Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s sudden death, had already toured West Godavari district and visited 42 families.
Jagan will tour entire Khammam district till 14 of this month. Ram Reddy Venkata Reddy, Minister for Labour and Cooperation will accompany the Congress MP throughout.
There was an unprecedented response to Jagan’s tour in West Godavari district, sources said. He unveiled as many as 100 statues of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in different places in the district.
He offered Rs 1 lakh to the bereaved families of those died.
–Agencies