NDA govt urged to provide help

Vijayawada: Telangana Home Minister Naini Narasimha Reddy said on Sunday that he would write a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to consider those who were jailed during Emergency in 1975 as freedom fighters.

He demanded that the Union government should provide financial support to the Emergency heroes who contributed their services for the cause of saving democracy against the Emergency imposed between 1975 and 1977 by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Andhra Pradesh Bharath Suraksha Samithi conducted the South India conference of Emergency (1975) Heroes at a private function hall here.

Addressing the gathering, Naini said that so many people had sacrificed their lives for protecting the democracy during the Emergency period in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh and Union government and all the State governments should help the Emergency heroes who had opposed Emergency.

He also shared his experience with the Emergency heroes in the united AP.
Telangana State Bharath Suraksha Samithi president Ashok Kumar Yadav said that Union and State governments should provide free medical services to the Satyagrahi movement activists who had worked against the Emergency in the two Telugu States of AP and Telangana.

Former MP Yalamanchili Sivaji said that the Central government must pass a resolution to treat the Emergency heroes as freedom fighters.

A Venkateswara Rao of Visakhapatnam said that he had participated in the Satyagrahi movement against Emergency and urged the Union and State governments for considering the Satyagrahi movement participants as freedom fighters to inspire the future generations to protect democracy in the country.

He pointed out that he had spent nearly eight months in prison at the Vishakhapatnam Central Jail during the Emergency period.
Bharath Suraksha Samithi members felicitated the Satyagrahi movement women activists on the occasion. Endowments Minister P Manikyala Rao and others were
present.