Glitters of the district

Glitters of the district:

This district formed on 2nd February 1970 with Ongole as capital. In 1972 it was renamed as Prakasam district in memory of Tanguturi Prakasam Panthulu. This district has great historical and

cultural background. Like many other normal areas, once upon a time, it was a sea-coast and forest area, habituated by Savarulu, Chenchulu. Later it  received civilization of Aryans and Dravidians. This district was ruled by kings of Satavahanas, Chalukyas and Pallavas. After Kakatiyas, Reddyrajas ruled it more than 100 years with Addanki as capital.

Ayyaparaju, descendant of Mandapati family established the kingdom in first half of the 16th century, with Konijedu as capital. The kingdom was developed under the reign of Ramchandararaju who ruled during 1792. Chennakesavalayam was constructed by him. In 1778, Guntur Mandal was undertaken by British along with Ongole. Ongole had played a prominent role in the Indian Independence Movement. Some youngsters tried to prepare and test a country bomb in the shaik Rehamtullah building at court center in Ongole. In that process it had exploded. Chimakurthi Seshagirirao, Ravinuthala venkateswarlu, Vemuti Venkata Subbaiah and Mudavarthi Satyanarayana were responsible for that incident. They had undergone imprisonment. That incident created history as Ongole bomb case. In 1790 this district was merged with Palnadu. In 1904 it became a part of Guntur district. Pothuri Ayyannasetty Chowltry, ancient Duvet memorial church, pedda masjid, Bairagi Matham, are the identity marks of the town Ongole. Historical Rangarayudi Cheruvu is now a tourist place. By the side of this place is the temple of Saibab. This temple, a boon to the town,is celebrated as Southern shirdi and is attracting pilgrims from far places.

Eminent persons:

Gadepalli sivaramaiah:

He is a versatile genius in feats of memory (avadhani), can perform eight of them simultaneously (astavadhani) and has given several such performances. He was born on 11-5-1940 at Gaddameedi palle in Yerragondapalem. He worked as a lecture and now retired. He is famous for his novel Viswanadha Nayakudu and several poetic works.

Mutukula Padmanabha rao:

Poet, writer and avadhani' He was born in 1929 at Mutukula village in Yerragondapalem mandal. He had conducted several astavadhanams. He had written Padmanabha Ramayanam with 7,000 poems and was well known as palanti Valmiki. He wrote several Satakams (100 poems) practiced medicine also.

Eddupaul:

Famous player. He was born in 1940 at Ongole. He won several national and international medals in several athletic events. He got name and fame as an all-rounder. He played football, volleyball and kabaddi but won several competitions. He worked as RTC traffic inspector in Hyderabad 91963-96). He is a gem of athletics, created wonders in veteran track and field, created several records in events like 100 mts running, triple jump and high jump. In 2006 he started fighting with cancer. He once won several gold, silver and bronze medals, but nowadays he is in trouble, looking for helping hands.

Konijeti rosayya:

Born at Vemuru in Guntur district. He is an elderly person in congress party like Bhishma in Mahabharatha. From the beginning he has been concentrating on Chirala constituency of the district. As an independent candidate he contested in 1967 and lost. Again in 1989 he contested, elected and worked as minister of Finance, medical & Health and Electricity. In 1999 he contested as congress party candidate and lost. Again in 2004 he contested, elected and appointed as Finance minister.

Kuppa venkatarama sastri (1916-2000):

Freedom fighter, skilfu doctor. He was born at Cheemakurthy a nearby village of Ongole. When he was a student he participated in  several movements and detained for 2 years. He had become a well known doctor in and around bundar. He worked as an editor for magazines Brindavani and Andhra pradesh Medical Journal. He shined in social service for 8 decades. 

Jagarlamudi chandramoule (1914-1987):

Born at karamchedu. He was a politician. He was a lawyer and in 1955 he entered politics. He contested from Ammanabrolu constituency and elected. He was twice elected as president of the district marketing committee of Guntur. In 1962, he joined swathantra party and was elected  to rajysabha. He established Ranga Kisan Organisation at Ongole. He joined Janata party and was elected as  MLA in 1978 from martur.

Akurati chalamayya (1903-1985):

Born at Eepurupalem. He was a famous writer. He wrote biography of several eminent people Ravindranath Tagore, Devendra Tagore, Gandhi). He published

speeches of Netaji in Telugu. Gora, Vidya, Santhiniketan, Upadhyayulu Vidyardhulu are some of his famous books.

Ulchi:

His name is Reddiboyina Krishna Murthy. He was born at Ulchi village in Ongole mandal. He created many modern arts. He did several researches, developed five new methods, painted hundreds of paintings, conducted exhibitions of them all over the world and earned lot of name and fame. At Chirala he arranged a rare art gallery consisting more than 500 paintings in different styles and 100 images. He has spread the name of the district in all regions. He got expertise in modern poetry. He received several felicitations.

Ramisetti syamala devi:

Weight lifter. She was born in 1984 at Ongole. She got bronze medal in senior nationals (2004) gold medal in south Indian Championship (2004). 4 bronze medals in junior National Championship (2005,2006), gold medal in junior section of Federation cup (2005,2006), silver medal in the all India Inter University Competitions, gold medal in the competitions between 25 countries, conducted is South korea. She got the eligibility to participate Asian Weight Lifting. She is studying M.com at Gudivada.

Jyothi chandramouli:

Vidwan Jyothi Chandramouli has written a book Prakasam Zilla janapada kalalu explaining the folk arts famous in this district street plays. Burra kadhalu, Panchi kadhalu, Chekka Bhajanalu, Picchi gutlu, Haridsulu, Gaaradi Vidyalu etc. This book tells us the importance of this district in the field of folks arts. He is staying at Ramnagar in Addanki.