Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader and former top Maoist Sambasivudu was hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Andhra Pradesh’s Nalgonda district, the police said on Sunday.
He was attacked late Saturday at Gokaram when he was returning after attending “Telangana dhoom dham”, a cultural programme to demand a separate Telangana state, at Sangem in Valigonda mandal of Nalgonda district, about 120 km from here. About 15 assailants in two cars chased Sambasivudu who was travelling in a car with his five supporters at around midnight. The attackers forced the TRS leader’s vehicle to stop and attacked him with swords, sickles and other sharp-edged weapons. Three of his supporters were injured when they tried to save him. The 46-year-old succumbed to his injuries while being shifted to Hyderabad, police said. The body of Sambasivudu, who was allegedly involved in attacks on former chief ministers N. Chandrababu Naidu and N. Janardhan Reddy, has been kept at Gandhi Hospital where an autopsy will be conducted Sunday. His family members alleged that the police was involved in the killing. They said police used its agent and former Maoist Nayeem to kill Sambasivudu. The former state secretary of the Communist Party of India-Maoist had surrendered before then home minister Jana Reddy in 2009 on grounds of ill-health.
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Liberal arts innovation varsity soon
Age Correspondent
New Delhi
March 27: The Union human resources development ministry is preparing to establish a university for innovation in liberal arts. Toward this end, the ministry has constituted a committee to prepare a concept note for the university.
Official sources stated that the proposed university will focus on culture, literature and the arts and is part of the proposed plan to establish 14 specialised innovation universities across the country.
“With culture, literature and arts being the vehicles of creative expression, it was felt that the promotion of studies in human resource development and capacity building in higher forms of expression and creative thought,” sources added.
The committee has been mandated to explore the limitations in the present approach to higher studies in liberal arts examination and necessary innovative institutional solutions that need to be explored.
The committee that will prepare the concept note has been mandated to submit its report within a period of three months.