Tributes paid to NTR on his 30th death anniversary

Rich tributes were paid to erstwhile Chief Minister and laminitis of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) N.T. Rama Rao (NTR) connected his 30th decease anniversary, crossed Tirupati and Kurnool connected Sunday (January 18, 2026). TDP leaders and activists organised humor donation camps and took up different work activities.

In Tirupati, the Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam (SPMVV) paid affluent tributes to its laminitis N.T. Rama Rao astatine a programme held connected the assemblage campus. Vice-Chancellor V. Uma on with Registrar R. Usha offered floral tributes astatine the statue of N.T. Rama Rao.

Addressing the gathering, the Vice-Chancellor said that the precise beingness of the University is owed to N.T. Rama Rao’s visionary determination successful 1983 to found a assemblage exclusively for women. She urged everyone to imbibe N.T. Rama Rao’s qualities specified arsenic simplicity, dedication to work, and discipline, and to collectively strive to instrumentality the assemblage to planetary standards.

Speaking connected the occasion, Registrar Prof. R. Usha highlighted that N.T. Rama Rao had envisioned women empowerment astir 4 decades agone and established this assemblage to realise that goal. She noted that thousands of women person been educated done this instauration and person risen to large heights.

The programme was attended by erstwhile Registrar Prof. N. Rajani, Deans of assorted faculties, Heads of Departments, teaching and non-teaching staff, and students.

Tributes were besides paid to the erstwhile Chief Minister astatine the Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences by its manager and vice-chancellor Dr. R.V. Kumar and aesculapian superintendent Dr. Ram. The infirmary authorities organised ‘annadanam’ (community lunch) connected the occasion.

In Kurnool, the territory TDP president Gudise Krishnamma, enactment State wide caput Somisetty Venkateswarlu and different leaders garlanded the statues of N.T. Rama Rao successful the city. Speaking to media, the TDP leaders said N.T. Rama Rao started the enactment with the slogan of Telugu pridefulness and the enactment came to powerfulness successful conscionable 9 months. He had been instrumental successful forming National Front and starring it to triumph astatine the Centre by decimating the Congress, they said, adding that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had been taking guardant the ideologies of N.T. Rama Rao successfully aft taking implicit the reins of the party.