Remembering Amrutha Rao, whose fast had led to setting up of VSP
The Hindu
What had begun as a peaceful protest on October 14, 1966, soon changed course and turned violent
It was on October 14 in 1966 that T. Amrutha Rao, former MLA of Tadikonda constituency in Guntur district, had launched an indefinite fast demanding that the Central government set up a steel plant in Visakhapatnam.
Amrutha Rao had fasted for 20 days in the Port City. What had begun as a peaceful protest soon changed its course and turned violent.
Seventeen persons had been killed in mob violence. Properties of the Railways and other Central government establishments had been destroyed.
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