Secunderabad MP Bandaru Dattattreya on Saturday demanded that the State Government officially observe the birth centenary celebrations of late Konda Lakshman Bapuji.
In a letter written to Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, Dattatreyya said that Bapuji had waged unswerving struggle for realisation of statehood for Telangana since 1952. He resigned from State Cabinet and Congress party in 1969 and never accepted any position of power till his death, he said.
“A great freedom fighter during the dark days of Nizam, late Bapuji languished in jail and lived underground for a long time. He always dreamt of uplifting the poor and the subaltern sections of the society. He stood like a rock by the side of SCs, STs, OBCs and the minorities during their distress. To be precise, he is a matchless towering personality in Telangana,” Dattatreyya said.
The BJP leader also demanded that a befitting memorial be erected at a prominent square in Hyderabad, besides a statue on Tank Bund. He said that a university be also named after him. (INN)