Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to deliver the Chenna Reddy memorial lecture next month as part of the birth centenary celebrations of the late Chief Minister.
The celebrations will be kicked off on January 13 and Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayana Swamy will be chief guest at the programme to be held that day.
Former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and former Governor K. Rosaiah said at a press conference here that the year-long celebrations would have about six seminars highlighting the contributions made by Chenna Reddy as a politician and administrator, including the Remote Area Development Programme, and the Cyclone Emergency Reconstruction Programme by World Bank.
Mr. Rosaiah described Chenna Reddy as an outstanding administrator and a statesman. “His long and illustrious political career started as a freedom-fighter, the youngest member of the Provisional Parliament in 1950 at the age of 31 years, a cabinet minister in Hyderabad state in 1952 at the age of 33 and has left an indelible mark from then itself. His contributions as a minister in the old Hyderabad state and Andhra Pradesh, as Chief Minister of AP twice and as governor of five States had been exemplary, Mr. Rosaiah said.
Mr. Rosaiah felt that it would be good if the Government conducted Chenna Reddy centenary celebrations officially. Marri Ravinder Reddy and Marri Shashidhar Reddy, sons of Chenna Reddy, and TPCC leaders Shyam Mohan and Kamalakar Rao were present.
