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PVG Raju with his family and Swami Jnanananda post his accidentFinally, PVG Raju regained consciousness towards the end of July. This time there was no lapse. He had been in a coma for 79 days. The doctors said that it was very rare for a person to come back to consciousness after such an extended period. He was very weak and debilitated and after a few weeks of recuperation, he was flown to Hyderabad in October 1964.PVG Raju was still a Minister in the Andhra Government though the Education Portfolio was allotted to somebody else. He was designated a Minister without Portfolio and he continued to live in the ministerial quarters he occupied in 155