Speakers demand restoration of erstwhile Warangal dist

Several prominent persons from Warangal district have expressed concern over the previous BRS regime carving out six districts out of the historic Warangal district on the pretext of greater administrative convenience and rendered severe injustice to the people of the district.
Several prominent persons from Warangal and Hanamkonda districts shared their views at a symposium held at Press Club here on Saturday on the topic of “Rebuilding of greater Warangal City, Administrative convenience and development with Muppidi Sampath Reddy in chair.
Those who shared their views on the topic include Prof Kurapati Venkata Narayana, former mayor T Rajeshwar Rao, senior advocate and Telangana activists MuddasaniMahodar Reddy, Gudimalla Ravi Kumar, chairman of Forum for Better Warangal Pulluru Sudhakar, Soma Ramamurthy, Sayini Narender, Chilla Rajendra Prasad, Karra Yadava Reddy and KondraNarsinga Rao.
They expressed opinion that former chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao on the pretext of achieving greater administrative convenience the historic city was divided indiscriminately and formed various districts and dealt a crippling blow to the undivided Warangal district leadership and also that of the North Telangana Movement leadership. They have dealt a blow to the political consciousness of the people.
The speakers demanded the present regime to review the sabotage caused by the previous regime and merge Warangal and Hanamkonda districts and develop them. Development is feasible only through merger of Warangal, which is the the biggest market for agricultural products, with Hanammonda, which is a seat of education, and Kazipet, which is an important railway junction in the South Central Railway.
The districts have been created by previous BRS regime to benefit political leaders and businessmen but not to promote industrialization and to improve the living standards of the people, they said.
The traces of great historic city Warangal, which was once the capital city of the South India during the Kakatiya regime, have been wiped out, they alleged.
In terms of development, Hanamkonda was ranked No. 30. The creation of new districts has affected the development they said. In fact, district headquarters of the district prior to carving out into many districts out functioned as development centers.
Development of Warangal city will lag behind due to denial of the national funds and denial of educational institutions to the city. In fact the people have been migrating to Telangana from all districts, they lamented.  If Warangal district were to be developed in North Telangana, it would provide livelihood to many people, they reasoned. There is a need to launch relentless struggles to save Warangal city, which is the birth place of many a struggle, they said.
They said that memoranda would be  submitted to MLAs by uniting people from various walks of life in the two districts and utilize the services of MLAs from the two districts to explain the present situation to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy.