Yes, the Telangana Chief Minister calls the Andhra great people as useless. This is because during the Million March last year statues of many great people have been destroyed by the agitators on Hussain Sagar. Few of them were thrown into Hussain Sagar.
Kiran Kumar Reddy, who was the CM then wanted to pull out the statues to re-install them by the help of Indian Navy, but could not do it. So, now KCR gave orders not to pull out those statues because it is a waste of time and money. KCR also commented that the statues being 'useless' need not be pulled out of the water, let them remain in the waters.
The statues are as follows, Palnati Brahma Naidu, Bellary Raghava, Sir Arthur Cotton, Krishnadevaraya, Annamacharya, Gurajada Appa Rao, Kandukuri Veereshalingam Panthulu, Yerrapragada, Raghupati Venkatratnam Naidu, Siddendrayogi, Mutnuri Krishna Rao and Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Choudhary.
When questioned about these statues, member of Department of Culture said,"KCR already clarified what those statues mean to Telangana. The issue is closed now. Anyways, new statues are already installed in places of those”. Why is KCR hurting great people's heritage? Does he want Andhra people to become more angry?
