Telangana Assembly to pass resolution seeking Bharat Ratna for Narasimha Rao

Naveen S Garewal

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Tribune News Service

Hyderabad, August 30

The forthcoming session of the Telangana Vidhan Sabha will pass a resolution demanding a Bharat Ratna for former Prime Minister PV Narashima Rao (PVR).

This has been announced by state Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR), besides a series of other decisions will ensure that the name of the former “son of Telangana” lives forever. The CM has also announced that the Necklace Road in Hyderabad, on the periphery of the Husain Sagar Lake will be named as PV Gnana Marg.

To give proper respect to the late prime minister, the state will be establishing a PV Memorial in the capital city.

Upset over the way PVR was treated during his end, the CM is personally reviewing the arrangements for the year-long PV Centenary Celebrations.

“PV Narasimha Rao is a symbol of Telangana existence. He was a reformer who initiated several reforms in the country. He was recognised as a great intellectual all over the world. He was the Telanganite who rose to the level of the country’s Prime Minister. We will discuss the greatness of PV and his achievements in the Assembly. We have decided to have a comprehensive debate on PV. We will pass a resolution urging conferring of Bharat Ratna on PV,” KCR has announced.

The CM said his government had decided to install a portrait of PV in the Assembly Hall of the state Vidhan Sabha. “We will request the Centre to install a portrait of PV in the Parliament too and will ask the centre to rename the Central University of Hyderabad, which was established by PV in Hyderabad, as PV Narasimha Rao Central University.

“When the land was the only resource for people to have their employment and earnings, PV as Chief Minister had implemented land reforms daringly. This resulted in having 93 per cent small and medium level farmers in the Telangana state now. The land came into the hands of the poor. It was due to economic reforms that PV implemented as the PM, the country’s economy was stabilised now. We have to honour such a great personality in a befitting manner,” the CM said.

He suggested to the committee members to prepare the programme lists on how should they be conducted the programmes amidst the present-day Corona guidelines and how it should be celebrated on a grand scale after the relaxations in the guidelines with large public participation. “The Committee should decide this as Corona and post-Corona periods,” the CM said.

The state will also develop Laknepally, the village where PV was born and Vangara where he grew up as tourist spots.