Freedom fighter and a staunch supporter of a separate Telangana
State, Konda Laxman Bapuji, passed way on Friday after a brief illness.
He was 97 and left behind two sons and a daughter. 
A native of Wankidi in Adilabad district, Bapuji, as he was popularly and affectionately known, was born on September 27, 1915. If alive he would have celebrated his 98th birthday next week.
A true Gandhian, Konda Lxman Bapuji participated in the Quit India movement. He worked as Deputy Speaker in then Hyderabad State. He resigned his ministerial post in 1969 to actively participate in the
Bapuji was first minister to resign for Telangana
Telangana agitation launched by the Telangana Praja Samithi . He was arrested along with many Telangana leaders and lodged in the Rajhamundry Central Jail.
When K. Chandrasekhara Rao floated TRS to revive Telangana movement for separate State, he welcomed it, but at the same time was disillusioned that many splinter groups have formed in the name of Telangana and thus hampered the movement. He strove hard to bring all the groups on one platform. Though in his nineties, he had even organized a three-day dharna at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to pressurize the Centre to immediately carve out a separate Telangana State.
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha, ministers, MPs and MLAs, besides TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu, YSR Congress Party honorary president Y S Vijayamlakshmi, TRS supremo K. Chandrasekhara Rao, State BJP chief G. Kishen Reddy and scores of other leaders have expressed heart-felt condolences at the passing away of Bapuji and said that in his death, the State, especially the Telangana region, lost a great leader. (NSS)
A native of Wankidi in Adilabad district, Bapuji, as he was popularly and affectionately known, was born on September 27, 1915. If alive he would have celebrated his 98th birthday next week.
A true Gandhian, Konda Lxman Bapuji participated in the Quit India movement. He worked as Deputy Speaker in then Hyderabad State. He resigned his ministerial post in 1969 to actively participate in the
Bapuji was first minister to resign for Telangana
Telangana agitation launched by the Telangana Praja Samithi . He was arrested along with many Telangana leaders and lodged in the Rajhamundry Central Jail.
When K. Chandrasekhara Rao floated TRS to revive Telangana movement for separate State, he welcomed it, but at the same time was disillusioned that many splinter groups have formed in the name of Telangana and thus hampered the movement. He strove hard to bring all the groups on one platform. Though in his nineties, he had even organized a three-day dharna at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to pressurize the Centre to immediately carve out a separate Telangana State.
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha, ministers, MPs and MLAs, besides TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu, YSR Congress Party honorary president Y S Vijayamlakshmi, TRS supremo K. Chandrasekhara Rao, State BJP chief G. Kishen Reddy and scores of other leaders have expressed heart-felt condolences at the passing away of Bapuji and said that in his death, the State, especially the Telangana region, lost a great leader. (NSS)
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