Name RRR After Sardar Patel: BJP Leader Gudur Narayana Reddy

Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party state executive committee member Gudur Narayana Reddy on Sunday urged the state and the Union governments to name the Regional Ring Road after Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Narayan Reddy said, “As Sardar has played a pivotal role in liberating Telangana from the clutches of Razakars and ensuring freedom to the people of Hyderabad state, it would be apt to name the RRR after him.”

He said it will be a real tribute to the Iron Man of India to name the RRR after him as Hyderabad has grown in leaps and bounds in past 76 years due to freedom it has enjoyed with the heroic efforts of Patel.

The RRR would be helpful in the all round development of Hyderabad and Telangana as well. Pointing out that the Centre has issued a gazette notification declaring Hyderabad Liberation Day on September 17 as official celebration, Narayan Reddy said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the proposal to construct a regional ring road around the suburbs of Hyderabad in 2018, with an estimated cost of Rs 9,164 crore.

However the cost of the project has shot up by Rs 6,000 crore as the grounding of it has been inordinately delayed. The previous BRS government has failed to complete the land acquisition in time even though the Centre has agreed to bear 50 per cent cost of land acquisition. He alleged that the BRS government had intentionally delayed the acquisition of the land.

Narayan Reddy urged the state government to expedite the land acquisition process and ensure that it is completed by October, this year, as the Prime Minister is expected to lay the foundation stone for the construction of the road.