CM ignores people’s movement: CPI
Party leaders pay tributes to Anaberi Prabhakar Rao
Chief minister, K. Chandrashekar Rao, is ignoring the Telangana people’s armed struggle movement during which thousands of people lost their lives fighting against feudal landlords, alleged the state secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), Chada Venkat Reddy here on Tuesday.
As part of the 74th anniversary of the Telangana armed movement, Reddy, along with CPI party leaders, paid floral tributes to the statues of Anaberi Prabhakar Rao who lost his life in the movement and that of Baddam Yella Reddy, who gave a call for armed movement here in Karimnagar.
Speaking on the occasion, Reddy said that the Communist party leaders, Ravi Narayana Reddy, BaddamYella Reddy and Magdum Moinuddin, had given a call for armed struggle in the year 1947, on September 11, against the Nizam kings, the Razakars, Deshmukhs and police which continued until September 17, 1948.
The credit of the redistribution of around 10 lakh acres of land to the poor goes to communist
party leaders. With the sacrifice of around 4,500 people in the movement who fought against the Nizams, the Hyderabad state was able to merge with the Indian union.
Rao has recollected the movement on several occasions, during the separate Telangana movement. He even lauded the sacrifices of leaders who lost their lives during the armed struggle movement in front of lakhs of people in several public meetings. Rao even criticised the rulers of the previous government for not celebrating September 17 as Liberation Day officially, Reddy pointed out.
Alleging that the backward class minister, Gangula Kamalakar, promised the people of Karimnagar that the area which at present surrounds the statue of Anaberi Prabhakar Rao will be developed beautifully to remember his sacrifices for Telangana region, Reddy said Kamalakar has reneged on his promise and insulted the great leader.
The BJP party is trying to give the wrong definition to the armed struggle movement, said Reddy. Then Home Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, created a panic situation in Hyderabad state using military and police forces.
It is the responsibility of the state government to include the Telangana people’s armed struggle movement in the school syllabus so that the people of present and coming generations will come to know about the actual history of the armed struggle movement, said Reddy, adding that the state must establish a smrithi vanam in the name of the martyrs of the armed struggle movement in Hyderabad.