{"id":194125,"date":"2022-07-05T20:18:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=194125"},"modified":"2022-12-09T17:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T12:26:51","slug":"pm-launches-year-long-125th-birth-anniversary-celebration-of-legendary-freedom-fighter-alluri-sitarama-raju-in-bhimavaram-andhra-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-launches-year-long-125th-birth-anniversary-celebration-of-legendary-freedom-fighter-alluri-sitarama-raju-in-bhimavaram-andhra-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"PM launches year-long 125th birth anniversary celebration of legendary freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>PM launches year-long 125th birth anniversary celebration of legendary freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB <\/b>on<b> 4th July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prime Minister has launched the year-long 125th birth anniversary celebration of legendary freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju in Bhimavaram,Andhra Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Who is Alluri Sitarama Raju?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alluri Sitarama Raju was born on 4th July 1897. He is remembered for his fight against the British, in order to safeguard the interests of the tribal communities in the Eastern Ghats region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is referred to as \u201cManyam Veerudu\u201d (Hero of the Jungles) by the local people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He had led the Rampa rebellion which was launched in 1922.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">laid down his life for the freedom of the motherland in 1924 at the young age of just 27 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What was the Rampa Rebellion?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rampa Rebellion is also known as the Manyam Rebellion. It was a tribal uprising, led by Alluri Sitarama Raju in Godavari Agency of Madras Presidency, British India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Cause:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Rampa administrative area was home to about 28,000 tribes. These tribes followed the \u2018Podu\u2019 system of cultivation whereby every year some amounts of forest tracts were cleared for cultivation, as it was their only source of food.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While for the tribes, the forests were essential for their survival, the Britishers wanted to evict them so that they could plunder these areas for wood, which would eventually help in building their railways and ships.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get the forests cleared, \u2018<strong>The Madras Forest Act, 1882<\/strong>\u2019 was passed, thereby restricting the free movement of the tribal communities and prohibiting them from engaging in their traditional Podu agricultural system. This oppressive order was the beginning of the Rampa Rebellion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ended in:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The rebellion began in August 1922 and lasted until the capture and killing of Raju in May 1924.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Steps taken by Government to remember <\/b><b>Alluri Sitarama Raju<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every year, the Government of Andhra Pradesh commemorates his birth date, the 4th of July, as a state festival<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The birthplace of Alluri Sitarama Raju at Pandrangi in Vizianagaram district and Chintapalli Police Station (to mark 100 years of Rampa Rebellion &#8211; the attack on this police station marked the beginning of Rampa Rebellion) will be restored.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has also approved the construction of Alluri Dhyana Mandir at Mogallu with a statue of Alluri Sitarama Raju in Dhyana Mudra, depicting the life story of the freedom fighter through mural paintings and AI-enabled interactive systems.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cPM launches year-long 125th birth anniversary celebration of legendary freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh\u201d published in PIB on 4th July 2022. What is the News? The Prime Minister has launched the year-long 125th birth anniversary celebration of legendary freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-launches-year-long-125th-birth-anniversary-celebration-of-legendary-freedom-fighter-alluri-sitarama-raju-in-bhimavaram-andhra-pradesh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM launches year-long 125th birth anniversary celebration of legendary freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,11210,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-194125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-personalities-in-news","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704821484},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}