KCR Slams Naidu Over Remarks On Hyd

Exhorts litterateurs to give a befitting reply to AP CM through their works

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Wednesday paid floral tributes to noted Telangana poet and literary icon Dasarathi Krishnamacharyulu on his 91st birth anniversary at Ravindra Bharathi here. Chandrashekar Rao handed over the Dasarathi Award and cash of Rs 1 lakh to his teacher Tirumala Srinivasacharya on the occasion. He also felicitated Srinivasacharya with a shawl.

Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister faulted his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu for his remarks in Rajahmundry that Hyderabad people had no culture and were idle, became active and learnt to wake up early in the morning at the behest of former Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) founder the late N T Rama Rao.

Chandrashekar Rao reprimanded Naidu for belittling Hyderabadi culture and community and said the latter could build his Amaravathi and develop it instead of making fun of Telangana and its people. “We are fortunate that Hyderabad, a historical city, is our State Capital and Naidu cannot compare his yet-to-be developed Amaravathi with it,” he said.

He exhorted the gathering of poets, litterateurs, authors and intellectuals to give Naidu a fitting reply through their works of poetry and books and other literary works. “Better if Naidu minds his own business, else we will teach him a lesson,” he warned. The government would come with a policy to promote Telangana literature, poetry, culture and tradition in a big way, he vowed on the occasion.

Assembly Speaker S Madhusudhana Chary, Home Minister Naini Narsimha Reddy, Gnanpeeth awardee Dr C Narayan Reddy and government Advisor K V Ramana Chary were also present at the programme organised by the State government.

Naidu terms Dasarathi a Telugu icon

Even as Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is on a mission to protect State literature, language and parlance, culture and traditions in a big way, and celebrated noted Telugu poet Dasarathi Krishnamacharya’s 91st birth anniversary for the first time on behalf of the State government, his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu, who is ‘often noted for creating hurdles’ in the way of State development, on Wednesday raked up another ‘controversy’ of sorts by ‘claiming’ Dasarathi Krishnamacharya as ‘Telugu Jathi Muddu Bidda’ (a loving son of Telugu community).

According to reports, Naidu termed the late poet as the icon of Telugu literary and poetic world on the occasion Dasarathi’s birth anniversary. Naidu recalled that Dasarathi’s works like “Naa Telangana Koti Rathanala Veena” prevailed in our society even today. Naidu further said that with his poetry Dasarathi took on to the might of Nizam’s anarchy and Razakars’ indulgence of misrule.