Telangana: Global celebrations planned for Telugu Bidda

Hyderabad: The Telangana government will kick start PV centenary celebrations at PV Gnana Bhoomi on Sunday. The mega celebrations, which will also be organised at 50 locations across the world to be coordinated by Minister for IT and MAUD KT Rama Rao, will be much more than just recalling the yeomen services of the great leader. It will also be a sort of launching of a mega campaign for honouring a great leader with Bharat Ratna.

As the former President of India Pranab Mukherjee stated on December 31, 2012 while delivering the first PV memorial lecture organised by The Hans India, "PV was the former Prime Minister, a deft practitioner of realpolitik, a great intellectual, an erudite scholar, thinker, writer and linguist and someone who would be remembered for his historic contributions to the country."

He said, "Born in a remote village of Andhra Pradesh, he strived hard for the welfare of the country and rose to be its Prime Minister. Influenced early in life by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, his disposition to devote his life for society was clear from his spirited participation in the nation's freedom struggle starting when he was only around 16 years of age.

Shri Rao was a leader who inspired many. I too am one of them. I had the opportunity to work with Shri Rao for many years and was impressed by his political sagacity, his depth of comprehension of complex issues and his steely resolve to find solutions to even the most intractable of them."

What is interesting is that while Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has decided to take up the demand for Bharat Ratna to PV on a campaign mode, he is also likely to seek the support of the neighbouring Telugu state Andhra Pradesh. As far as Telangana Government is concerned it would soon pass a resolution in the Cabinet and will move a resolution in the State Assembly during the monsoon session. KCR himself will go to New Delhi to submit the resolution to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Hans India, which had raised the demand in 2012 itself, reiterates its support to the cause taken up by the State Government.