 His younger son, Marri Shashidhar Reddy, was Vice Chairman of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) with a Union Cabinet status; he was also a four-time MLA from Sanathnagar.Reddy arrived in Hyderabad on 1 December 1996 from Chennai to attend his grandson's wedding.He was taken to a private hospital in the city after he complained of a chest pain at around midnight before he slipped into coma.