Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) founder president and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has demanded that social reformer, writer and folk poet of Maharashtra Anna Bhau Sathe be conferred with Bharat Ratna and requested the Maharashtra Government to send a proposal to the Centre and Telangana Government too would address a letter to the Prime Minister with the same plea.
Speaking at Wategaon near Kolhapur in Maharashtra, the birth place of Anna Bhau Sathe, at the latter’s 103rd birth anniversary, Mr. Rao said the writings of Anna Bhau were not just for people of Maharashtra but for people of India and the world. He requested the Maharashtra Government to get all writings of Anna Bhau translated into all Indian languages and English so that everybody could know his ideology.
Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao said Matang community, to which Anna Bhau belonged, was one of the oldest communities of India and recollected how the great poet Kalidasa wrote about Matang community, the descendants of Matanga Maharishi of ancient India. He said Anna Bhau was known as ‘Lokshayar’ (people’s poet), the title given to very rare few, and recognising his contribution to the field of people’s literature his bust was installed in the All Russia Library in Moscow.
