Commemorating Alluri’s ‘Chilli Post’
The Hindu
Department of Posts to release special covers at Chintapalli in Visakhapatnam Agency today
On this day in 1922, the revolutionary freedom fighter, Alluri Sitarama Raju, had attacked the British police station at Chintapalli in Visakhapatnam Agency. The revolutionaries had a unique way of despatching messages to the British officials. They used to shoot an arrow, along with a bunch of chillies and a typed message. They had coined it ‘Mirapakaaya Tapa’, or ‘Chilli Post’, which had created a scare among the British. To mark the “centenary of the Chilli Post,” the Department of Posts is gearing up to release special covers on the series of attacks Sitarama Raju had carried out on the police stations.More Related News
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