Hyderabad: NTR's son Nandamuri Harikrishna cremated with full state honours

HYDERABAD: Actor-politician

Nandamuri Harikrishna

, who died in a car crash, was cremated in Hyderabad on Thursday with full state honours.


Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, former Supreme Court judge J Chelameswar among others participated in the funeral procession of Harikrishna.

Earlier in the day, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu visited Harikrishna's residence and paid homage and consoled the bereaved family.

"He was straightforward and sincere like his father (NTR)," Venkaiah Naidu said.

Leaders cutting across political parties paid their last respects to the departed soul.

Many of the friends and family members recalled their association with him.

Harikrishna, son of Telugu cinema giant and three-time chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh N T Ramarao, died in a car crash in Telangana's Nalgonda district on Wednesday.

The former Rajya Sabha member and brother-in-law of Chandrababu Naidu was on way to Nellore district for a wedding function when his car rammed into a road divider on Nalgonda highway.

The impact was so great that the vehicle got flung over the median barrier to the opposite side of the highway.

The TDP politburo member apparently died from serious head injury and internal bleeding.