Date:05/03/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/03/05/stories/2008030552520300.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Stamp in memory of tyagi released

Staff Reporter

Kakinada: A postage stamp in commemoration of eminent lawyer and freedom fighter Maharshi Bulusu Samba Murthy was released here on Tuesday on the occasion of his birth anniversary by the Union Minister of State for Defence and Kakinada MP M.M. Pallam Raju and Visakhapatnam Region Postmaster General A.N.D. Kachari.

Speakers recalled Samba Murthy’s sacrifices of his profession and personal life for the sake of the country’s liberation from the clutches of the British.

Samba Murthy was born at Dulla village in East Godavari district on this day in 1886. He became a famous lawyer and had a close association with Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu with whom he had worked in the Madras High Court for quite sometime.

In the due course, Murthy gave up his profession and had joined the Indian National Congress which catapulted him into the freedom struggle. He was highly regarded by the top most leaders of the party that spearheaded the freedom movement. He is considered as one of the greatest leaders of the Congress party and was known as a person who cared well for the fellow human beings even in times of personal distress.