Congress demands Telangana government to build memorial of eight-time former MP Nandi Yellaiah

HYDERABAD: The Congress has demanded that the Telangana government should build a memorial, and install the statues of eight-time former MP and a Dalit leader Nandi Yellaiah at Ramnagar in the city where he was born, and also at Siddipet and Nagarkurnool, the two parliamentary constituencies which were represented by him earlier.
A meeting organized here to condole the death of Nandi Yellaiah, popularly known as “Dalitha Bandhava” saw leaders from the Congress, Left, Telangana Inti Party among others terming him as a Gandhian who always believed and followed the democratic, secular, social justice principles of the Congress party.
The meeting was presided by AICC secretary V Hanumanth Rao who volunteered to finance and install one of the statues of Nandi Yellaiah. “Nandi yellaiah was a loyal Congressman. We shared a good rapport,” he said.
Telangana Congress president N Uttam Kumar Reddy expressed concern over rising commercialisation of politics in the state as well as at the Centre and said youngsters should take inspiration from the life of Nandi Yellaiah to make politics a better place.
“It was difficult to find leaders like Nandi Yellaiah who epitomised values, honesty and integrity in public life and sincerity and loyalty for the party. These days, he said values and discipline were missing in both politics and public life,” Uttam said.
Congress leaders Bhatti Vikramarka, Sampath Kumar among others also expressed condolences over the demise of party members Narender Yadav and Md Sirajuddin due to coronavirus.