Why AP CM JaganMohan Reddy renames Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Award?
According to sources in major embarrassment for chief minister jagan Mohan Reddy, the andhra pradesh government was on tuesday forced to withdraw an order to rename the ‘APJ Abdul Kalam Pratibha Puraskar Awards’ after the CM’s father, the late ysr Reddy, following sharp criticism from the opposition.
Perhaps the order issued on monday had said that the award would be renamed ‘YSR vidya Puraskar’. Meanwhile the award is presented to meritorious Class 10 students on november 11, celebrated as National education Day on the eve of Moulana Abul Kalam Azad’s birth anniversary and the best performing students are awarded merit certificates, a memento and scholarships to meet higher education costs and the award was earlier known as ‘Prathibha Awards’, but the name was changed to honor former president and ‘missile man of India’ APJ Abdul Kalam by the chandrababu naidu government in 2017.
Naidu tweeted on tuesday that the move was a “shocking method of self-aggrandizement”. Further local bjp leaders also termed the move an insult to Kalam. Andhra bjp spokesperson Dinakar Lanka told “This shows the arrogance in the decisions of the Andhra government. It is the best example of how the names of the nation’s real heroes are suppressed and replaced with those of the kith and kin of people from dynasty politics”.