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Thursday, September 02, 2010 (17:07:58)
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Postage stamp on late Andhra Chief Minister YSR released

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Hyderabad, Sep 2: A commemorative postage stamp on Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the late Andhra Pradesh chief minister, was today released on the occasion of his first death anniversary.

Visakhapatnam region post master general Sharada Sampat released the Rs.5 stamp carrying the portrait of YSR, as he was popularly known by his initials, at a ceremony held in Visakhapatnam.

Officials said it normally takes 18 months to prepare and release a stamp but they had come out with this commemorative stamp within a year.

Visakhapatnam-based philatelist G. Durga Prasad had sent the stamp proposal in October last year and the same was accepted by the Department of Posts.

YSR died along with four others in a helicopter crash on Sep 2 last year. (IANS)
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