Former Andhra Pradesh Speaker Kodela Siva Prasada Rao Commits Suicide

Senior Telugu Desam Party leader and former Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly speaker Kodela Sivaprasada Rao died at a private hospital on Monday afternoon.

News agency ANI said Kodela had allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence in Hyderabad.

His family members immediately shifted him to Nandamuri Basavarama Tarakam Hospitals at Banjara Hills, where the doctors kept him on ventilator and tried to resuscitate him. He died at around 12.15 pm.