Vijayamma condoles Lakshman Bapuji's death

 Hyderabad, Sept 21, 2012: YSR Congress Party honourary president Smt. Y.S. Vijayamma has expressed her condolences over the death of veteran freedom fighter Konda Lakshman Bapuji.

Bapuji,97, who has been bed-ridden for the last few days, breathed his last this morning at his residence here.

In a statement issued in Hyderabad, Vijayamma conveyed her sympathies to the bereaved family members of Bapuji. “Bapuji strove hard for the economic and political emancipation of the Telangana people till his last breath,” Vijayamma said in her consolence message.

She said the death of Bapuji, who was committed to the welfare of the Telangana people, is a void which can’t be filled.

Konda Lakshman Bapuji, who once gave up his minister’s post for the sake of Telangana, actively participated in the Non-Mulki agitation of 1951 and the Telangana agitation of the 1969.