Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will unveil the 125-foot tall bronze statue of Dr. BR Ambedkar in Hyderabad on April 14 on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti. This will be Ambedkar’s tallest bronze statue and will be situated near Sagar Lake in the heart of the city, reported news agency IANS.
The KCR government has invited Ambedkar’s grandson Prakash Ambedkar as the chief guest for the ceremony.
As part of the unveiling, a huge crane will be used to remove the curtain on the statue and garland it with a giant garland made of roses, white chrysanthemums, and betel leaves. Flowers will be showered from a helicopter to pay tribute to the architect of the Indian Constitution, reported IANS.
Only Buddhist monks will be invited to the ceremony for it to be conducted in their traditional way.
CM KCR has said that the unveiling will be celebrated as a grand, historic ceremony and with a fervour that makes India proud.
Approximately around 750 buses of the Road Transportation Corporation will be booked for public transport so that 35,700 people from all 119 constituencies could attend the ceremony viz. 300 from each constituency. The CM said that in addition to Secretariat staff, officers, heads of all departments, district collectors, state Ministers, MPs, MLCs, MLAs, State Corporation chairpersons should attend this programme. Arrangements will be made to distribute one lakh sweet packets, one and a half lakh butter milk packets and the same amount of water packets will be made.
Post the unveiling ceremony, a public meeting will be held which will be addressed by KCR, Prakash Ambedkar, and state welfare minister Koppula Eshwar.
KCR praised Ambedkar in a high-level meeting for delivering social-economic justice and bringing equal justice in all sectors with his vision. He said that Ambedkar made India proud across the globe by sacrificing his whole life for a big cause. He emphasised that it was Dr. Ambedkar who incorporated Article 3 in the Indian Constitution for separate states which paved the way for the creation of the Telangana.
The state government will felicitate the architect of the Ambedkar statue, Padma Bhushan Ram Vanji Sutar from Maharashtra.