Great Chief Minister and Friend of the Poor – Dr. YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s fans from all over Florida gathered in a Best Western hotel Conference hall, Cocoa Beach, Florida. Program started with welcome speech by Dr.Vasudeva Reddy Nalipireddy, who shared his memories with Dr.YSR and how he helped him solving student problems at the Siddartha Medical College.
The photo of Dr.YSR was garlanded by Mrs. Vasudeva Reddy and everybody offered roses, other fragrant flowers, and a minute of silence to pay tributes to the departed soul of great leader Dr.YSR.
Dr.Srikanth spoke next; he recollected the closeness with Dr .YSR and introduced the guest speaker of the night Dr.Silas Charles to the crowds. Dr.Silas Charles said that "Andhra Pradesh has made big strides in areas of Sustainable Agriculture, Food security, Access to credit and other social aspects during his tenure as chief minister, BBC called him a champion of social welfare schemes".
A video program was showed to highlight the everlasting political and personal memories of Dr.YSR by Chandu Talla, Raghunath Reddy Padi, Dilip Reddy, Mahesh, and Ram Kukkadam from Tampa, Florida.
Dr.Mohan Reddy Konda shared his memories in such a way that he met Dr.YSR, and presented a project plan which would help to prevent new born diseases and new born screening methods. Dr. Konda said loosing Dr.YSR is the biggest loss of his life.
Dr.YSR's sister Mrs.Vimala Reddy gaaru gave heartfelt message to the participants over teleconference. The hall resounded with shouts of "JAB TAK SURAJ, CHAAND RAHEGA! YSR AAPKA NAAM RAHEGA!!".
Chandu Talla spoke about Dr.YSR’s encouragement to the young NRI entrepreneurs to serve back mother nation India by providing effective infrastructure and involving state government as a stakeholder to provide proper guidelines. Daniel Adipi, a close friend of Dr. YSR’s family shared his experiences with the crowd about Dr.YSR and Vijayalakshmi gaaru.
Dr.Srinivas Dontineni, Satya Narayana Reddy from Virginia Tech, Dr.Kishore, Dr. Murthy Lagudu, Mrs.Deepa Rukala, Mrs.Radhi Dontineni, Mrs. Vijaya Lagudu, Mrs.Aupama Nandivadana, Mr.Goutham, Venkat Puskur and Dr.Sabapathy shared their memories with Dr.YSR.
Several children and women participated in the program whereas children cut the cake. Everyone who participated in the program said that they are leaving with fond memories and great experience Organizers decided to pay floral tribute to Dr.YSR for his first Vardanthi in September, 2010 and pledged to do something to help people in need, to continue Dr.YSR's legacy who strongly advocated and practiced "Sarvo Jano Sukhino Bhavanthu".
Dr. Srinivas Dontineni offered vote of thanks where he thanked all the organizers and participants.
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