Hyderabad, June 21 -- Congress MLC Chintapandu Naveen alias Teenmar Mallanna held a protest near KBR Park (Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park) on Saturday, June 21, urging the state government to rename the park after Telangana ideologue Professor Kothapalli Jayashankar.

"Very soon, other parks in Hyderabad will be renamed after the real heroes, people from the backward classes and the marginalised sections, who played a crucial role in the Telangana statehood movement," he claimed.

Kasu Brahmananda Reddy was the chief minister of the undivided Andhra Pradesh during the 1969 Telangana movement, a period during which 369 Telangana activists were killed in police firing. He held office from February 29, 1964, to September 30, 1971.

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