In an absolute shocker, four hospital employees took a selfie with the body of TDP founder NTR’s son N. Harikrishna after the latter succumbed to injuries he sustained in road accident on Wednesday.

The picture taken at Kamineni Hospital in Telangana’s Nalgonda district went viral over social media on Friday, evoking all-round condemnation.

A ward boy is seen taking a selfie from his mobile phone with the actor-politician’s body in the backdrop. A ward girl and two nurses are also looking into the camera.

The picture was apparently taken minutes after the efforts of the doctors to resuscitate Harikrishna failed.

Reacting to the outrage caused by the selfie, the management of the hospital promised to take action against the employees.

Harikrishna, a former Rajya Sabha member and former Andhra Pradesh minister, died after the car which he was driving overturned after hitting the median in Nalgonda district.

He sustained critical head injuries and was rushed to Kamineni Hospital at Narketpally.

Harikrishna (61) was son of Telugu Desam Party’s founder and former Chief Minister of unified Andhra Pradesh, late N. T. Rama Rao. He was son-in-law of TDP president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.

Harikrishna, who started his film career in Telugu films as a child artist in 1960s, was creamated with state honours in Hyderabad on Thursday.

The tragic death of Nandamuri Harikrishna brought Nandamuri family together. Or it appears so.

Social media is abuzz with the circulation of a video that has the visuals of Balakrishna chatting with NTR and Kalyan Ram while they were having lunch this afternoon.

As the Nandamuri brothers NTR Jr and Kalyan Ram are having lunch after ‘chinna dinam’ of their father, Balakrishna walked to them and started talking. It surprised everyone as Balakrishna always refused to meet NTR Jr.

He seems to have buried the differences with NTR Jr. Balayya in the past refused to grant a meet with NTR and has avoided him totally in the last four years.

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HYDERABAD: Telugu film personalities, politicians and others on Thursday bid a tearful adieu to TDP politburo member Nandamuri Harikrishna, whose mortal remains were consigned to flames with full state honours.

Harikrishna, who died in a road accident a day earlier, was the fourth son of actor-politician N.T. Rama Rao, the founder of Telugu Desam Party and former Chief Minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh.

Harikrishna’s eldest actor son Kalyan Ram lit the funeral pyre amid chanting of hymns at Mahaprasthanam crematorium in Jubliee Hills here in the presence of a large number of mourners, including his other son Tarak Ram, popularly known as Junior NTR, brother-in-law and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, actor brother Balakrishna, and former Supreme Court judge J. Chelameswar.

An armed contingent of Telangana Police reversed arms as the bugle sounded the Last Post as a mark of respect to Harikrishna, who died three days before his 62nd birthday.

Poignant scenes were witnessed at the funeral, attended by Ministers from both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, leaders of TDP, Tollywood celebrities and fans.

Earlier, the body was put on a flower-bedecked vehicle and taken to the cremation ground from Harikrishna’s house in Mehdipatnam by a procession of hundreds of people, with Chandrababu Naidu, Chelameswar and close family members acted as pall-bearers.

The former MP and former Andhra Pradesh Minister died on Wednesday when a SUV he was driving overturned in Telangana’s Nalgonda district.

Harikrishna was popular as ‘sarathi’ or charioteer of his father’s ‘Chaitanya Ratham’, the name of the vehicle on which NTR toured the state after floating the TDP in 1982.

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Senior Journalist turned director B Jaya (51) died on Thursday evening. She succumbed to health issues she has been suffering from a long time.

B Jaya started her career as columnist for Andhra Jyothy. Her first film as director is Chantigadu in 2003 with Baladitya and Suhasini. She made films Gundammagari Manavadu, Premikulu, Saval and Lovely in recent years. Vaisakham was her last film. B Jaya introduced Kamna Jemalani and Shanvi Srivatsava to Telugu film industry.

Jaya’s husband BA Raju is a famous journalist and PRO.

While Telugu film industry is struggling to digest the fact that Nandamuri Hari Krishna passed away, B Jaya’s death shocked everyone.

That NTR and Kodali Nani have been good friends for years is a well known fact. Nani had played a crucial role in NTR’s rise as a star. Many thought that there were clashes between NTR and Nani and that their friendship ended after Nani joined YSRCP.

But now, as NTR lost his father, Nani stood firmly behind him and gave him the much needed emotional support. As soon as Nani was informed about Harikrishna’s accident, he immediately rushed to the Kamineni Hospital in Nalgonda. Since then, he stood by NTR and proved what real friendship is.

Nani carried Harikrishna’s mortal remains when they reached the Nandamuri veteran’s Hyderabad residence. Later, interacting with the media, Nani expressed his shock over Harikrishna’s passing and said that it was Harikrishna who made him the President of Krishna district’s Telugu Yuvatha. “If not for Harikrishna, I would have had no political career,” said Nani.