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  • Leaders pay tribute to PV Narasimha Rao on his birth anniversary

    Leaders pay tribute to PV Narasimha Rao on his birth anniversary

    Hyderabad: Ministers, family members, Civil society representatives, close associates, friends and admirers paid rich tributes to former Prime Minister of India, PV Narasimha Rao on the occasion of his 102nd birth anniversary on Wednesday.

    The family members of PV Narasimha Rao including his daughter Vani Devi accompanied by Ministers, Mohammad Mahamood Ali, Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Satyavathi Rathod and MLA Shankar Naik paid rich tributes to the former Prime Minister at PV Gnana Bhoomi, Necklace Road. Special arrangements including all-religious prayers and decorating the PV Ghat with flowers was taken-up by the State government.

    casion, Srinivas Yadav recalled the contributions of PV Narasimha Rao in rescuing the country from the worst financial crisis in 1992 by taking a series of bold financial decisions in the budget.

    “The Telangana government under the leadership of K Chandrashekhar Rao has been at the forefront in recognising and honoring the legacy of the late Prime Minister of India. He was a visionary and richly deserves Bharat Ratna for his groundbreaking decisions that were taken in 1992,” he said.

    Satyavathi Rathod praised the late Prime Minister and pointed out that he will continue to remain an inspirational figure for future generations in India.

  • DMK to observe year long birth centenary celebrations of Karunanidhi

    DMK to observe year long birth centenary celebrations of Karunanidhi

    CHENNAI: DMK on Sunday decided to celebrate the birth centenary of late party president and former chief minister M Karunanidhi grandly with year-long events starting from a public meeting to setting up of Kalaignar statues in all the party districts and assistance to party seniors and setting up of study centres.

    According to the resolution adopted at the party’s high-level executive committee meeting chaired by DMK president MK Stalin, the birth centenary public meeting would be held on June 3 with the participation of the Secular Progressive Alliance in North Chennai.

    On June 20, the Kalaignar Kottam built at Kattur in Tiruvarur, the native town of Karunanidhi, would be inaugurated by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, it said.

    The resolution instructed the party’s district unit to hold the birth centenary celebrations for a year-long with events highlighting the Dravidian movement ideologies and achievements of Kalaignar starting from June 3 this year to June 3, 2024.

    Given Karunanidhi’s birth centenary, the resolution said that efforts should be made to erect lifesize statues and busts of the DMK patriarch following the government’s regulations in every party district.

    Calling upon all its party units to offer floral tributes to the portrait of Kalaignar on June 3, DMK instructed its party branches to replace the party’s old flag poles as part of the centenary celebration. “ As the DMK is about to step into its 75th year, we have reached the proud state that there are no villages in the state without party flagpoles,” it said.

    DMK ordered its district units to hold seminars and public meetings under the title of “Kalaignar Forever” with people from various fields. It also wanted to open modern Kalaignar Centenary Study Centres with internet and computer facilities for public usage. DMK was a movement that opened study centres turning people into intelligent democratic forces, it said.

    The meeting resolves to celebrate the centenary of Karunanidhi, the sculptor who built modern Tamil Nadu, in a spirited, thorough and effective manner throughout the year so that the fame of Kalaignar will be enshrined in the hearts of everyone in the state.