Hyderabad: Inaugurating the Dr Manmohan Singh Earth Sciences College at Kothagudem, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy Tuesday stated the naming of the tutorial establishment after Singh was a tribute to the previous PM beneath whose tenure Telangana achieved statehood.

In recognising the contributions of the two-term UPA PM, CM Revanth Reddy went one step forward of his Congress counterparts in Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka who renamed current establishments of their states after Singh earlier this yr.

Singh, a famend economist, who served as PM from 2004 to 2014, and because the nation’s finance minister from 1991 to 1996—a interval identified for financial liberalisation and industrial reforms—handed away on 26 December 2024.

Days after his demise, the Congress’ pupil wing, the Nationwide College students’ Union of India (NSUI) wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging that the Delhi College’s new faculty campus be named after Singh as an alternative of Veer Savarkar.

PM Modi laid the muse stone for Veer Savarkar Faculty at Najafgarh on 3 January.

Two weeks later, the BJP demanded that the Congress social gathering identify its new headquarters at Kotla Marg in New Delhi after Manmohan Singh, as “a significant gesture to honour his legacy”, at the same time as posters appeared exterior the constructing demanding it’s named Sardar Manmohan Singh Bhavan.

“Naming the constructing after Singh can be a significant gesture to honour his legacy and handle the disrespect he endured throughout his lifetime, significantly from the Gandhi household,” BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya posted on X on the time.

Nonetheless, dismissing the demand and the posters as a BJP conspiracy, Congress chief Anil Shastri had stated the identify Indira Bhavan for the trendy social gathering headquarters was determined upon way back.

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi inaugurated Indira Bhavan on 15 January, within the presence of social gathering chief Mallikarjun Kharge and others, giving the grand outdated social gathering a brand new handle, relocating from its decades-old one—24, Akbar Street.

However, commemorating the one Sikh PM’s start anniversary, Sonia Gandhi, on 23 September, opened the Dr Manmohan Singh Analysis Centre and Library arrange throughout the Indira Bhawan. Gursharan Kaur, spouse of Singh, was amongst these current on the event.

Addressing a public assembly on the foundation-laying, Revanth stated that the Palvoncha space, the place the primary unit of the Kothagudem thermal energy station was arrange within the mid-sixties, gave rise to the statehood agitation as many of the jobs went to non-locals, although the farmers there parting with their land for the challenge.

“At this time, it’s a nice event, naming the earth sciences college after former PM Singh who fulfilled the decades-long public aspirations of a separate state,” stated Revanth Reddy, referring to the primary section of statehood agitation within the late Nineteen Sixties.

The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014, handed in Parliament in February 2014, whereas the UPA-2 was in energy, bifurcated the united state into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana from 2 June 2014.

‘BRS was ungrateful to Singh’

Talking earlier than Revanth Reddy, state income minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy stated the earlier Ok. Chandrasekhar Rao authorities, regardless of being in energy for about 10 years, confirmed no gratitude in the direction of the previous PM and by no means considered honouring him.

CM Revanth Reddy additionally praised first PM Jawaharlal Nehru’s imaginative and prescient and execution, which he stated endowed the nation with a number of top-class instructional establishments and irrigation tasks like Nagarjuna Sagar, Bhakra Nangal and Srisailam.

“It’s training and irrigation that can take Telangana to better heights,” stated the CM.

Touted as the primary of its variety college within the nation, MSESU, situated within the Singareni coal belt in northern Telangana, is anticipated to reap the benefits of the world’s geological variety, mineral wealth and ecological programs for analysis actions and to supply consultants in mineral sources, environmental safety, groundwater administration, and so forth.

(Edited by Viny Mishra)

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