Amarajeevi Foundation members offer floral tributes to Amarajeevi Potti Sriramulu the statue on his 73rd death anniversary at Gandhi Park in Srikakulam on Monday.
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Leaders of the Amarajeevi Potti Sriramulu Pavitra Smruti Parirakshana Samithi in Srikakulam have urged the government to include a lesson on Potti Sriramulu in schoolbooks so that future generations learn about his sacrifice for the creation of a separate Andhra State in 1953.
The association’s Srikakulam district president Tammana Bhaskar and district secretary Mandavilli Swami Srinivas Gupta on Monday made the appeal on Monday after paying floral tributes to the statue of Potti Sriramulu in Gandhi Park to mark his death anniversary.
They recalled Sriramulu’s contribution to the creation of linguistic States in India following his hunger strike held between October 19 and December 15, 1952, which eventually . Mr. Bhaskar urged the government to release funds for the development of a memorial building in Chennai where Potti Sriramulu had breathed his last while fasting to achieve a separate State for the people of Andhra region.
The association leaders Pasumarthi Appala Raju, Manda Nageswara Rao, Mamidipaka Sudhakar, Tammana Jagadish, Patnala Anand, Anantapalli Nageswara Rao participated in the event.
Published – December 15, 2025 08:07 pm IST
