Kakinada, Nov. 7 -- Rich tributes were paid to freedom fighter and former MP Prof N G Ranga on his 126th birth anniversary at a function organised at the Congress office in Mandapeta constituency on Saturday.
AP State Kisan Congress Chairman Kamana Prabhakar Rao, who paid floral tributes to Ranga's portrait, recalled his contributions to the freedom struggle and farmers' welfare. He said Ranga had been imprisoned several times along with Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru during the freedom movement.
A postgraduate in Commerce from Cambridge University, Ranga authored several books on monetary reforms and was elected to Parliament nine times from Guntur, Srikakulam and Chittoor constituencies.
He was popularly known as 'Rythu Bandhu' fo...