Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday said a resolution would be passed in the Legislative Assembly, in the session to be held next month, urging the Centre to confer Bharat Ratna on former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao.
Rao, who held a meeting with ministers and officials on Narasimha Rao's birth centenary celebrations, said the state government would also request the Centre to install a portrait of the former PM in parliament and to rename the Central University in Hyderabad after him.
The university was established by Narasimha Rao. "Chief Minister Sri K Chandrashekhar Rao announced that in the coming Legislature session a resolution will be passed demanding conferring of Bharat Ratna award to former Prime Minister Sri PV Narasimha Rao," an official release said.
The state government had earlier announced that Narasimha Rao's centenary celebrations would be organised on a grand scale.
"PV Narasimha Rao is a symbol of Telangana's existence. He was a reformer who initiated several reforms in the country. He was recognised as a great intellectual all over the world. He was the Telanganite who rose to the level of the country's Prime Minister. We will discuss the greatness of PV and his achievements in the Assembly," the release quoted the CM as saying.
The CM would send letters to the President, Prime Minister, Chief Ministers of various states, requesting them to participate in the celebrations, it said.
The meeting decided that it should be proposed to UNESCO to confer awards in the name of Narasimha Rao to those who made rich contributions in the fields of literature, science and technology, it said, adding that Telangana State government would arrange for the cash prize.
