‘Vizag Gandhi’ passes away

‘Vizag Gandhi’ passes away Visakhapatnam:  Kolluri Satyanarayana Sastry, popularly known as Vizag Gandhi, passed away at a corporate hospital Tuesday midnight after a prolonged illness. He was 95 and survived by wife Ramanamma Sastry and a son. A Gandhian to the core, freedom fighter and a social worker, Sastry was admitted to a hospital for a minor surgery and treatment for lungs and died of

cardiac arrest at 11.35 pm, according to the family members.A freedom fighter since his young school days, Sastry had worked with Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose, Jayaprakash Narayan, PVG Raju, Bhattam Srirama Murty and a host of others, fought his best for the welfare of workers in several public and private sector units in Vizag and other coastal districts. He was the founder of Gandhi Centre and initiated and involved in innumerable number of social activities. He always believed that Gandhian way and principles stating that they were real remedy for all societal ills either in India or elsewhere. Ultimately, he could get a group of young and youthful volunteers of India Youth for Society (IYFS) who have been doing excellent service programmes in Vizag and he had made them as associate members of Gandhi Centre.  It was these volunteers led by Appala Reddy, Jagadish, and Devi who looked after him during his last days taking every possible care at home and at the Hospital.