Bhupati Koteshwar Rao

Bhupati Koteswara Rao was a freedom fighter and Satyagrahi who had participated actively in the nationalist movement. He was born in Moturu village of Gudivada Taluk of Krishna district. Born to agriculturalist father, Venkateswara Rao, Bhupati was politically aware since childhood and joined the Satyagraha Movement at a very young age. He faced the brunt of the oppressive British colonial system when literature deemed as prejudicial was found on him. He was arrested on 27th November, 1940 under the draconian Defence of India Rules and was released on bond for two years on the grounds of his good behaviour. Rao undeterred upon release, offered another Satyagraha. He was made to serve seven months of rigorous imprisonment for the same in 1941 at the Alipuram Camp Jail. As a student in 1943, he vigorously joined the protests against the British during the Quit India Movement. The British Government ordered his detention again under the same Defence of India Rules, imprisoning him for a year from between October 1943 and 1944 at the jails in Cannanore (Kannur) and Thanjavur. An entire generation of young freedom fighters like Bhupati Koteswara Rao suffered greatly for the independence of our country.