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Hyderabad, June 27
After building temples and renaming government schemes in his memory, it is now the turn of a district to be named after former Chief Minister, the late YS Rajasekhar Reddy. His native Kadapa district will be rechristened ‘YSR District’.
The Congress government has been on a renaming spree with several welfare programmes being named in the memory of YSR, a charismatic leader who died in a helicopter crash in September last year. However, this has triggered similar demands from different parts of the state to pay tributes to those who had shaped Andhra Pradesh’s history.
The main Opposition, Telugu Desam Party, came up with a proposal to rename Srikakulam district after freedom fighter Gowthu Lachanna and Vizianagaram district after its erstwhile ruler PVG Raju.
The Cabinet has also decided to rename the upcoming night bazaar near Shilparamam, a cultural complex in the city, as ‘YSR Shilpa Sandhya Vedika’. "This was a dream project of YSR,” the Minister for Tourism and Culture J Geetha Reddy said.
After building temples and renaming government schemes in his memory, it is now the turn of a district to be named after former Chief Minister, the late YS Rajasekhar Reddy. His native Kadapa district will be rechristened ‘YSR District’.
The Congress government has been on a renaming spree with several welfare programmes being named in the memory of YSR, a charismatic leader who died in a helicopter crash in September last year. However, this has triggered similar demands from different parts of the state to pay tributes to those who had shaped Andhra Pradesh’s history.
The main Opposition, Telugu Desam Party, came up with a proposal to rename Srikakulam district after freedom fighter Gowthu Lachanna and Vizianagaram district after its erstwhile ruler PVG Raju.
The Cabinet has also decided to rename the upcoming night bazaar near Shilparamam, a cultural complex in the city, as ‘YSR Shilpa Sandhya Vedika’. "This was a dream project of YSR,” the Minister for Tourism and Culture J Geetha Reddy said.
