Social reformer Kandukuri Veeresalingam Pantulu was a visionary who could foresee the problems plaguing the society way back some 140 years and started working to eradicate them, local MLA Akula Satyanarayana said on Thursday.
Addressing a meeting organised in connection with his 168{+t}{+h}birth anniversary celebrations at Ananda Gardens where the Kandukuri couple was laid to rest, the MLA said it was unfortunate that the change aspired in society by the great leader years ago could not be seen today.
Inadequacies
Mr. Satyanarayana said he was aware of the inadequacies amidst which the teaching and non-teaching staff of the Kandukuri Educational Institutions, run by Hitakarini Samajam, had been working and promised to look into the issue at the earliest.
Senior MLA Mr. Gorantla Butchaiah Chowdary pointed to the fact that Mr. Kandukuri had donated most of his assets for promoting education, welfare of women and girl child.
He said he would ensure that no assets of Kandukuri would be encroached upon in or outside Rajahmundry.
Mayor Rajani said Kandukuri’s role would be prominently highlighted in the forthcoming Pushkarams.
Buddiga Srinivas, principal of SKVT College, Pasupuleti Sri Rammurthy, senior lecturer and research scholar P.V.B. Sanjeevarao and B. Satyanarayana participated.
