Former Speaker’s birth anniversary celebrated by the state

The State Government in Hyderabad will celebrate the birth anniversary of former Assembly Speaker D Sripada Rao as a State function on March 2. State Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari issued orders for this celebration.

All district Collectors have been directed to celebrate the birth anniversary in a grand manner. Sripada Rao was the State Assembly Speaker in the 1990s. He was killed by Naxals in April 1999 in his hometown of Karimnagar.