Hyderabad: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee paid tributes to former chief minister of united AP YS Rajashekhara Reddy on the occasion of his 70th birth anniversary on Monday. Banerjee wrote her tribute message to YSR on Twitter and tagged Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Here's what she wrote on the microblogging site:

Tribute to YS Rajasekhara Reddy, former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, on his birth anniversary @ysjagan

অন্ধ্র প্রদেশের প্রাক্তন মুখ্যমন্ত্রী ওয়াই এস রাজশেখর রেড্ডির জন্মবার্ষিকীতে শ্রদ্ধার্ঘ্য
— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) July 8, 2019

Several political leaders and prominent faces across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana paid rich tributes to the departed leader. They recalled his slew of welfare schemes that left an indelible imprimatur on poor and downtrodden. Many of the YSR's fans also organised charity programmes on the occasion. YSRCP government in Andhra Pradesh declared that YSR's birth anniversary henceforth would be observed as Farmers' Day in view of his pioneering efforts to uplift farmers out of debt burden and make agriculture a profitable venture.

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