In a heritage of Compassion Flashing back Telangana’s Iconic Folk songster Gaddar, Who supported Justice Through His Music . Telangana flings farewell to its cherished folk songster, Gaddar, who passed away on August 6th after battling a serious illness at a private sanitarium in Hyderabad.
Given affectionately as” Gaddar,” he was born in 1949 in Toopran, Medak quarter, under the name Gumma Vittal Rao, and came famed for his revolutionary songs. His benefactions during the peak of the Naxalite movement in united Andhra Pradesh earned him a place as a voice for the Telugu- speaking crowd. Gaddar’s part in the Telangana movement can not be forgotten, and his iconic song” Podustunna Poddumeeda Nadustunna Kalamma Poru Telanganaama” came a chief in every gathering of the Telangana movement. Beyond his musical trials, he remained close to the bournes of Telangana and used his music to reach the millions, slipping light on shafts faced by the region.
He indeed ventured into acting and left an unforgettable mark in pictures, most specially with the popular song” Bandenka Bandi Katti Padaharu Bandlu Katti.” In his early life, Gaddar laboriously engaged in the conditioning of the Communist Party of India( Marxist- Leninist) People’s War Group during the 1980s. still, when the also Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Marri Chenna Reddy, lifted the ban on the group, he receded himself from the fortified struggle. In 1997, he survived an assassination attempt at his home.
lately, Gaddar was seen attending a meeting organized by the Telangana Congress in Khammam, where Rahul Gandhi was present. It was gladdening to substantiation him embracing Rahul Gandhi and swapping felicitations. Just a many months agone , he blazoned plans to start a new political party, but unfortunately, his end came before its commencement.
Revanth Reddy, the President of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee, expressed his grief over Gaddar’s demise and stressed that Gaddar’s music and influence on social movements in Telangana will be cherished and flashed back ever.
