Rajashekar Reddy Missing ! YS Rajashekar Reddy ! Ysr Missing

Rajasekhara Reddy was untraceable after his chopper made an emergency landing in Atmakur area of Kurnool district on Wednesday afternoon. Officials said that the chopper landed safely in a playground but the whereabouts of the CM are being kept under wraps as it is a naxalite-infested area and the Nallamalla forests-the stronghold of Maoists-are closeby.

The CM is on a three-district tour and was proceeding towards Chittor for an inauguration function when the chopper apparently went off the radar of air traffic control tower at Begumpet airport in Hyderabad. The Bell 430 chopper with call sign VTAPG lost contact with the ATC at 79 nautical miles from Begumpet and was in visual flying range.

Sources said that the Kurnool District Collector called up the ATC to say a chopper has landed on an open field near Bhanucharla village. However, there was no communication from the pilot or the officials accompanying the CM about their whereabouts.

Two choppers have taken off from Hyderabad, four from Bengaluru and one Navy chopper from Chennai, to ascertain whether if it is the CM's chopper that has landed in the field.

Kurnool District officials said that the area where the chopper seems to have landed is Naxal-infested and thus the whereabouts of the CM are being kept a secret. Additional DGP, Law and Order, A K Khan said that the CM is safe.

State DGP S S P Yadav and Intelligence Chief Aravinda Rao and Chief Secretary Ramakanth Reddy are supervising the operations to trace the missing chopper. All police stations in Kurnool district were put on a high alert.