Hyderabad: Telangana Governor Tami-Zhi-Sai announced the Necklace road’s name change as PV Marg on the occasion of Late PV Narasimha Rao’s closing ceremony of the year long birth centenary celebrations on Monday.

She unveiled a 28-feet bronze statue of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao at PV Gyan Bhoomi in Necklace Road in Hyderabad, in a fitting tribute to the “Son of the Soil”.

Telangana Governor Tami-Zhi-Sai in her address at the gathering said former Prime Minister PV always respected opposition parties and choose the then opposition leader AB Vajpayee to represent the country in the human rights commission meeting in Geneva.

PV had always respected the ethics, religious pattern and the soul of the country, she said. Telangana Chief Minister KCR in his address said that a seat will be established in the Kakatiya University in the name of former PM PV Narasimha Rao.

He described PV has a multitalented personality, PV ushered in several reforms including land reforms. “Setting an example to others, PV also distributed 800 acres of his land to the people,” the Chief Minister recalled. The Governor and the Chief Minister also released nine books on the former PM on the occasion.

PV’s Birth Centenary Committee chairman K Keshava Rao said that a statue of PV would be unveiled in Delhi. PV’s statues would also be installed in six districts in the state. PV’s photo would be unveiled in the State Legislature. A museum would be set up at PV’s Gyan Bhoomi. “We have urged the central government to rename Hyderabad Central University as PV Central University. We have also requested the central government to install a portrait or statue of PV in the Parliament hall,” Keshava Rao said.

TRS MLC and PV’s daughter Vani Devi and several ministers attended the ceremony. The Telangana government officially conducted the former PM’s birth centenary celebrations for one year from June 28, 2020.