Updated On: 11 September, 2022 02:48 PM IST | Hyderabad | IANS
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao directed the officials to make arrangements for Raju`s cremation with state honours

Krishnam Raju. Pic- Twitter
Last rites of veteran Tollywood actor and former Union minister U.V. Krishnam Raju will be performed with state honours here on Monday. Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao directed the officials to make arrangements for Raju`s cremation with state honours. The chief minister asked Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar to make the necessary arrangements.
Raju, popular as Rebel Star, died early Sunday at AIG Hospital here. He was 83. The last rites will be performed Monday afternoon at Maha Prasthanam in Jubilee Hills. His body was shifted to his residence, where it will be kept till Monday afternoon to enable his fans to pay their last respects.