Minister for Rural Development and Housing Kimidi Mrunalini has said that Gurajada Appa Rao’s house in the town will be developed as a memorial of the writer. “The magnum opus ‘Kanya Sulkam’ is thought-provoking and it created awareness among people on child marriages,” she said after visiting his house on the occasion of Gurajada’s 152 birthday celebrations that were celebrated in a befitting manner on Sunday.
Empowerment She said no one now was performing child marriages. In fact women were treading toward empowerment. The Minister inspected the writer’s belongings and manuscripts.
Rally taken out Later, litterateurs, students and elite of the town took out a rally rendering a few lines of the writer, ‘Desamunu preminchumanna ……, “and carrying Gurajada’s belongings to M.R. Autonomous College where they paid rich tributes by garlanding his statue.
The district administration celebrated the event at Kshatriya Kalyanamandapam, near Ayodhya Maidan. Zilla Parishad Chairperson Sobha Swati Rani, MLA Meesala Geeta, Municipal Chairperson P. Ramakrishna, district Collector M.M. Naik paid tributes by garlanding his portrait at the kalyanamandapam.
