Ruling Telugu Desam Party suffered a setback when one of its MlAs T Prabhakar Rao died of heart attack late on Saturday night. 64-year-old was elected from Nandigama Assembly seat in Krishna district.
He suffered a massive heart attack on Saturday night and died while undergoing treatment at the hospital. A lawyer by profession he was elected twice to the State legislative Assembly. But he died before taking oath as the member of the new Assembly.
TDP president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu rushed to Nandigama on Sunday morning to pay his tributes to the departed leader. “His death has left a vacuum which cannot be filled,” Naidu said. “Rao had worked tirelessly for the party in Krishna district,” he added.
Several Ministers, including Devineni Umamaheshwara Rao, MPs, party leaders and thousands of supporters of the MlA attended his funeral. This is the second Assembly seat of Andhra Pradesh, which has fallen vacant. Allagadda seat of Kurnool district was already vacant as Shobha Nagi Reddy of the YSR Congress Party was elected posthumously. She died in a road accident during the election.