Neglected 'Telangana Idols'

By Unknown Telanganite

Did Telangana produce any leader? Do Telangana people really know who participated in Telangana armed struggle and fought for Telangana liberation?

Telangana people are exploited by non-Telangana rulers. Our rulers completely ruined our education system. We studied about “Potti Sreeramulu’s liberality” and “Kodi Ramamurthi’s power and potency” in our schools. But, many of us do not know who is Khomaram Bheem. To us Vattikota Alawar swamy, Shoyabulla khan, and Konda Venkata reddy are strange names. What happened to our education system? Why stories of famous Telangana figures were never taught in the schools as part of our state history?

We are not reluctant to learn about Andhra leaders, but we also want to know about our great Telangana fighters.

Now, nearly every street and building in Hyderabad is named after Andhra or Rayalaseema leader. It appears that after few years of time our Telangana idols would be completely concealed from us.

Here are few examples to show how our non-Telangana leaders are erasing our history from Hyderabad and from Telangana.

Statues of Andhra/Rayalaseema leaders in Hyderabad

Potti Sriramulu
Tanguturi Prakasham
Dahmodaram Sanjeevayya
Kaasu Brahmananda Reddy
Jalagam VengalRao
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao
Puchalapalli Sundarayya
Ragupathi Venkata Ratnam
Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdary

Among them, only Puchalapalli Sundarayya (born in Alaganipadu, Nellore district) was involved in Telangana armed struggle. And rest of the others neither fought for Telangana nor aware of Telangana struggle.

And here is a list of statues of leaders from Telangana

Marri Chenna Reddy
Burugula Ramakrishna Rao
Elimeneti Madhava Reddy

This is the list of streets/stadiums/parks/places named after non-Telangana people

Potti Sriramulu Nagar
Sanjeva Reddy Nagar
Vengala Rao Nagar
NTR Maarg
Brahmananda Reddy National park
Potti Sriramulu University
Vengala Rao Park
N.G Ranga Agriculture University
Potti Sriramulu Telugu University
NTR Stadium
Vijaya Bhaskar Stadium
Balayogi Stadium

Can anybody show at least one Telangana leader’s statue either in Andhra or in Rayalaseema?

Is this because we do not have famous figures?

What happened to our Telangana idols? How many of our politician know about Vattikota Alawar swamy, Shoyabulla khan, Konda Venkata reddy, Raavi Narayana, Buddam Ellareddy, Kamaladevi, Kommaraju Laxman Rao, Jamalpuram Keshava rao, Kumuram Bheem. Kaloji, Dasharathi, Ramji Gond and Thurrebaaj khan?

These are very few examples to show how we are/were duped.