Rajampeta, located in the native district of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, continues to boil over what protestors call ‘unscientific and irrational’ carving out of Annamayya district with Rayachoti as headquarters.
Tallapaka in Rajampeta is the birthplace of saint poet Annamacharya, who sang compositions in favour of Lord Venkateswara. The very idea of naming the district after Annamayya was born here and the residents were jubilant when the name was announced, but their joy evaporated when the ‘relatively insignificant’ Rayachoti was named its headquarters.
