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YSR unveils Anjaiah's statue at Lumbini Park

Staff Reporter

The park will henceforth be called T. Anjaiah Lumbini Park

The site was selected by Anjaih's wife T. Manemma and Khairatabad MLA P. Janardhan Reddy

Buddha Purnima Project Authority was conceptualised during Anjaiah's tenure, says YSR

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy unveiled the statue of former Chief Minister late T. Anjaiah at Lumbini Park, opposite Secretariat, here on Wednesday.

Addressing an impressive gathering of Congress workers and leaders besides late Anjaiah's followers, Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy said the Lumbini Park was also renamed as T. Anjaiah Lumbini Park as tribute to the leader who always had interest of the poor at his heart.

The efforts to install the statue of Anjaiah bore fruit after about 20 years and when T. Manemma Anjaiah and MLA P. Janardhan Reddy selected the site at Lumbini Park for the statue, it was finalised as the appropriate choice. It was under the tenure of late Anjaiah, Buddha Purnima Project Authority was conceptualised, he recalled.

Recalling the services of late Anjaiah for the poor, Dr. Reddy said Anjaiah had striven sincerely to fulfil late Indira Gandhi's call for `Garibi Hatao'.

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