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Dr. P. Varadarajulu memorial
June 4 , 2026
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- Renewed calls have been made for a proper memorial in Tamil Nadu to honour freedom fighter and journalist Dr. P. Varadarajulu Naidu.
- Dr. P. Varadarajulu Naidu was a freedom fighter, noted journalist, and Congress legislator, popularly known as the “Bal Gangadhar Tilak of South India.”
- Like Bal Gangadhar Tilak in Maharashtra, Naidu was part of a southern political triumvirate along with T. V. Kalyanasundaram and E. V. Ramasamy.
- He served as editor of the Tamil weeklies Prapanchamitran and Tamil Nadu, and launched the English daily Indian Express in 1932.
- Similar to Tilak, who faced sedition charges for his writings in Kesari, Naidu was also tried for sedition for a speech delivered on the political situation in Madurai on 18 August 1918.
- During the second term of C. Rajagopalachari (1952–1954), Naidu strongly opposed the new school education policy introduced by the government.
- There is no major memorial dedicated to Varadarajulu Naidu in Tamil Nadu, except an Ashoka Pillar in Salem, where he spent most of his life.
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