Hyderabad, Aug.28 (Maxim News): Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced that in the coming Legislature sessions a resolution will be passed demanding conferring of Bharat Ratna award to former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao. The CM also decided to name Necklace Road as PV Gnana Marg. He also announced the establishment of PV Memorial in Hyderabad.
The CM held a review meeting at Pragathi Bhavan here on Friday on PV Centenary Celebrations. Ministers Etela Rajender, Srinivas Goud, PV Centenary Celebrations Committee Chairman and MP Dr K Keshav Rao, Government’s Chief Advisor Rajiv Sharma, Advisor Anurag Sharma, Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar, Principal Secretaries Vikas Raj, Sri Srinivas Raju, Cultural Affairs Director Mamidi Harikrishna, CM OSD Desapathi Srinivas, Committee members Ramanachary, Devulapalli Prabhakar Rao, Tankasala Ashok, PV Prabhakar Rao, Ms Vaani Devi, K Ramachandra Murthy, Ramesh Bigala, YV Chandrashekhar and others participated.
“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 about the greatness of PV and his achievements in the Assembly. We have decided to have comprehensive debate on PV. We will pass a resolution urging conferring of Bharat Ratna on PV. We have decided to install portrait of PV in the Assembly. We will request the Centre to install a Portrait of PV in the Parliament. We will ask the centre to rename the Central University of Hyderabad, which was established by PV in Hyderabad, as PV Narasimha Rao Central University. We will also pass a resolution in the Assembly in this regard,” the CM said.
“When 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 percent small and medium
level farmers in the Telangana state now. 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.
The CM 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. (Maxim News)
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