As decided by the 20th party congress of the CPIM, the party has launched a year long birth centenary celebration across the country, of its first General Secretary and revolutionary legend Com. P Sundarayya on his birthday (May 1). A meeting was held in the party headquarters in New Delhi which was inaugurated by CPIM General Secretary Com. Prakash Karat. He described in detail the role played by Com P Sundarayya in the formation of Communist groups in the southern states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra. He also praised the role, comrade Sundarayya played in the glorious Telengana Armed struggle. CPIM PB members Com. S Ramachandran Pillai, Brinda Karat, CC members com. Venketeswara Rao, Suneet Chopra were present in the dias.
The major function on the launch of the birth centenary celebration was held in Andhra Pradesh where the new campus of Sundarayya Vignana Kendram (SVK) built
on a sprawling four-acre land was inaugurated at Gachibowli by Home Minister P. Sabitha Indra Reddy. It
is the second campus of the literary and cultural centre after the one
in Baghlingampalli here. The centre has a collection of over 2.5 lakh
books in Telugu, Urdu and English languagesc on culture, history,
literature, philosophy, sociology, arts and science.
Speaking
on the occasion Ms. Sabitha Indra Reddy said the life of Puchalapalli
Sundarayya, popularly known as comrade PS, was inspiration to present
and future generations and there was need to propagate his ideology. CPI
(M) PB Sitaram Yechury who presidedover the function said it was a coincidence that
the new SVK centre was being opened on his 100thbirthday.
Rich collection
Earlier,
managing trustee of SVK B. Sambi Reddy explained that they had over 1.5
lakh books in English, 70,000 in Telugu and 40,000 in Urdu. The
SVK had all issues of 24 literary magazines beginning from ‘Bharathi'
in Telugu. They had also digitised about 2,000 rare books in Telugu.
The
first published women's weekly in the country, Nizam's hand-written
poems, paintings, Ghalib's poems, the complete works of Iqbal,
autobiographies, ‘nazams, masnavis, dasthans', all issues of
Tazib-ul-Aqlaq newspaper run by Syed Ahmed Khan, Moulana Abul Kalam
Azad's Al-Hilal and Al-Bilag newspapers were among their priceless Urdu
collection, he stated.
The Baghlingamapalli centre
had space only for about 80,000 books and the new centre was also
falling short now with about 40,000 books still being kept in carton
boxes. They were planning to take up construction of another block in
Gachibowli with 20,000 sft space.
State secretary of
CPI (M) B.V. Raghavulu, State secretary of CPI of K. Narayana, freedom
fighter Mallu Swarajyam and others participated.
Communist Party of India-Marxist Vijayawada city unit and
Prajasakthi Sahiti Samstha jointly kicked off Puchalapalli Sundaraiah
birth centenary celebrations on a grand note on Tuesday. On
the occasion, CPI(M) city secretary Ch. Babu Rao said that Sundaraiah
had long ago foreseen the implications of imperialism and globalisation,
and gave a call to oppose the imperialist policies. CPI(M)
state control commission chairman B. R. Tulasi Rao stressed on the need
to take forward the ideologies of Sundariah. Prajasakthi Visakhapatnam
edition manager Sudhakar released a special issue on Sundaraiah birth
centenary celebrations.A blood donation camp was organised to mark the centenary celebrations.
(Courtesy : The Hindu)
(Courtesy : The Hindu)
