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Rich tributes paid to Swami Ramananda Teerth

By Our Special Correspondent

GULBARGA Jan. 23. Freedom fighters and the people of the Hyderabad-Karnataka region today remembered the contribution of Swami Ramananda Teerth to liberate the areas under the Nizam's rule by observing the 31st death anniversary of the visionary leader.

The Swami Ramananda Teerth Institute of Socio-economic Research and National Integration organised a function to mark the death anniversary of the leader here in which several freedom fighters, including V.P. Deoulgoanker, and Vidyadhar Guruji, paid rich tributes to him.

During the freedom movement and the struggle against the rule of Nizam, Swami Ramananda Teerth was a popular leader in the erstwhile Hyderabad State. He was instrumental in keeping the Congress intact in the erstwhile Hyderabad State. The Hyderabad State Congress, which was formed by him, was banned by the Nizam. Swami Ramananda Teerth, who started several schools in Karnataka and Maharashtra, was first arrested and sentenced to 10 months imprisonment by the Nizam in 1938. He was again arrested and imprisoned for two years in 1940 for participating in the Quit India Movement. When the region was liberated in September 1948 after the Home Minister, Vallabhai Patel, ordered a police action against the Nizam, Swami Ramanand Teerth was in jail. The Indian forces released him after liberating Hyderabad from the clutches of the Nizam.

After his release, he formed rehabilitation committees to provide relief to the people. He was elected to the first Lok Sabha from the Gulbarga constituency in 1952 and was responsible for the reorganisation of Statesand merger of the Hyderabad-Karnatak region with Karnataka.

He retired from politics in 1963. He died in Hyderabad in 1972.

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