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Telugu Desam leader and former Andhra Pradesh minister, Devineni Nehru (Rajasekhar), died of cardiac arrest here on Monday. The 63-year-old leader is survived by a son and a daughter.
He was stated to be suffering from kidney ailment and died due to a cardiac arrest.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu condoled his death stating that it was a personal loss to him and the party.
A powerful youth leader, Devineni Nehru has been part of the TDP since its formation in 1982 by the TDP supremo and leading star NT Rama Rao. He was elected MLA from Kankipadu in 1985, 1989 and 1994 and served as a minister in the NT Rama Rao cabinet.
After switching over to the N Chandrababu Naidu camp in 1996, when the TDP split, he later joined the Congress. Nehru lost the elections in 1999 but was later elected in 2004 and defeated in 2009 and 2014. In 2015, after the Naidu government assumed office, he returned to the TDP fold.
Devineni Nehru's family and Vangaveeti Ranga, a Kapu leader from Vijayawada, had a long standing political rivalry. Ranga, a leader from Congress was murdered in 1988 when he was on a hunger strike, leading to riots and carnage.
Nehru and other accused in the case relating to the murder of Ranga murder were later acquitted.
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