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Bidding adieu: The TDP urban president, Gadde Rammohan, paying last respects to the secretary of Siddhartha Academy, Mummaneni Subba Rao, in Vijayawada on Sunday. Photo: Ch. Vijaya Bhaskar.
VIJAYAWADA: The secretary of the Siddhartha Academy and Senior Partner in the Brahmayya & Co, Mummaneni Subba Rao, died at his house in Satyanarayanapuram on Sunday following a brief respiratory illness. He was 79, and is survived by wife Rajyalakshmi, sons Vijay Kumar and Vinay Kumar, and daughter Vasundhara. Rao developed complications at 4 am and vomitted blood. On being informed, the president of the Siddhartha Academy, B. Rama Rao, and the governing body member, Y. Madhusudhana Rao, who were medical doctors, immediately reached the place and began treatment. Twenty minutes later, Rao vomitted blood again and breathed his last. He had been suffering from respiratory complications for the last one month. The news of Rao's death plunged the management of the Siddhartha Academy, staff of its various institutions and students into grief. An endless stream of visitors paid their last respects to Rao at his house. The district Collector, K. Prabhakara Reddy, the Commissioner of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation, V. Usha Rani, the city Congress president, Kadiyala Butchi Babu, the TDP urban president, Gadde Rammohan, the general secretary, Nagul Meera, and the TDP urban former president, Basaveswara Rao, laid wreaths on Rao's body. Among the other mourners at Rao's house were the Chairman of Laila Group, Gokaraju Ganga Raju, Malineni Rajaiah of Vijaya Agro, Dr. Samaram, the former MP, Bolla Bulliramaiah, and Mullapudi Thimmaraja of Andhra Sugars. Dr. B. Rama Rao, who was by the side of Rao when the end came, said: "By the time, Dr. Madhusudhana Rao and I reached, he had lost consciousness. He attended to office work till 8 pm on Saturday. He planned to attend some programme and do some office work even on Sunday." A workaholic, a pioneer and a lovable personality, Subba Rao played a pivotal role in developing Siddhartha educational institutions brick by brick. He was founder treasurer of the Siddhartha Academy in 1975 and was instrumental in strengthening it into a big family of 14 institutions, including two engineering colleges and a medical college. All these institutions, having a total strength of 19,000 students and 2,000 staff, ran successfully under Rao's able stewardship.
Holiday
The Siddhartha Academy declared Monday as a day of mourning and holiday for all its 14 educational institutions as a mark of respect to the departed academician. The mortal remains of the late Subba Rao were cremated in the evening.
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