Former PM Deve Gowda condoles death of Yerran Naidu

Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda today condoled the death of senior TDP leader and former Union Minister K Yerran Naidu.

In his condolence message, Gowda said Naidu was a good friend, philosopher and guide not only for him but also for all those leaders who toiled hard to build a party other than national parties.

When I was the Prime Minister, he (Naidu) was in my cabinet and since those days I knew his calibre, organising capacity and commitment to principled politics, he said.
As a veteran parliamentarian, Naidu was a force with voice for the downtrodden in general and farmers in particular, Gowda said.

55-year-old Naidu died in a road accident in his native Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh early today.    May his soul rest in peace and I pray God to give strength to his family members to bear this great shock and loss, he said.

BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu also condoled the death of the TDP leader and said his demise was a great loss to the people of Andhra Pradesh and the non-Congress movement. Naidu was a dynamic and hardworking leader of the TDP. He was an able Minister and a good parliamentarian. He used to play active role in non-Congress movement as Leader of the TDP and while he was in Parliament he used to take everybody along in that movement, the BJP leader said. He described him as a straight forward and hardworking politician.

Upon hearing about the leader's death, Venkaiah had rushed from Bengaluru to Srikakulam to pay his last tributes. He was accompanied by Bandaru Dattatreya, former Union Minister and K Hari Babu of BJP, AP

- PTI