Ex-RS MP Harikrishna was an actor and had acted in several Telugu movies.
The state government has declared a holiday on Wednesday and Thursday for all private institutions, offices, non-essential services within Outer Ring Road here in view of rains.
Incessant rains have claimed as many as 29 lives in Andhra Pradesh during the past four days while more than 72,000 people have been evacuated from low-lying areas.
Former Member of Parliament S M Lal Jan Basha, who served as a prominent Muslim face of Telugu Desam Party for close to three decades, was killed in a road accident at Narketpalli on the Hyderabad-Vijayawada National Highway in the wee hours on Thursday.
Shocked by the news of students being washed away in the turbulent Beas river in Himachal Pradesh, anxious parents and relatives rushed to the private engineering college at Bachupally here seeking information about their dear ones.
