Renaming Kadapa as YSR District – A Constitutional Violation and Denigration of History

Kadapa District in AP has been now renamed as YSR District by the ruling Congress to honour Samuel Reddy for his outstanding contributions for the growth of Christianity in the State.

Dr S Kalyanaraman Comments.  

Denigration of history is erasing the social memory of the community. Gadapa, Kadapa evokes the image of the threshold to Balaji. This memory has to be sustained as the nation’s heritage. What is the use of constituting national monuments authority while denigrating the existing monuments embedded in place names? Even the marauding barbarians of the middle ages did NOT meddle with the nation’s heritage and pilgrimage site names. Secularism cannot be taken to absurd lengths to relate to temporal political personalities for political expediency. The State has no constitutional authority to affect the fundamental rights of citizens to cherish their heritage. An important fundamental duty enshrined in the constitution Part IVA, Article 51A is: To value and preserve the rich heritage of our composite culture; This also becomes the duty of the state to value and preserve the rich heritage.

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