I donated all my family wealth for a better world – Gade Inna Reddy, Philanthropist

Krishna Reddy: Tell us about briefly about yourself.
Gade Inna Reddy: I was born in year the 1962 in a rich, landlord family in Sagaram village, Zaffargadh Mandal of Warangal district but because I started thinking about the life and the society in year 1974, I consider it as more important than my birth year. The very first question/inquiry I have come across in my life was whether I should live for myself or should I live for the society and nature which taught me and gave me everything. The black days of emergency in the year 1975 kindled up the flame of serving the society within me and my public life has begun then. I was inspired by the revolutionary politics and joined radical students union from my college in Warangal district. I have been arrested by the police for agitating for student’s rights and when I was sent to central jail in Warangal, I contested student union elections from jail itself and won with thumping majority being in the jail and set the sensational record all over the country during August 1982.  It made all the political unions look at Warangal then, I took part in many revolutionary, pro-people, anti-feudal, rationalist agitations and stood by the people for more than two decades.

I donated all our family lands to the poor like many other inspirational people whom I believed to live closely with the truth and to maintain ethics and morals with what we preach and how we live. I always lived the way I believed. The path lived, worked and selflessly sacrificed and contributed to a better world without any inequalities was also hijacked by self-centered people which disturbed me and also because of my ill health and other medical reasons I myself called away from their path and I had to rest for few days.

But the society which I believed as my home, my temple, my mosque and my church did not let me sit quiet, I started Working on the cause of separate Telangana statehood and the discrimination against the region in allocating funds and projects in year 1995 and released my scientifically researched book “Dagapadda Telangana” proving the realities behind the cause with statistical evidences, this work has helped the agitation as a guiding holy book. Since 1996, I worked for the separate statehood relentlessly organizing all sections of society. Also, being a founder member TRS party, I served as plenum chairman and contributed my best for building the party and I quit the party in 2003 on my own interest. I founded Prajadharana social welfare society aka Maa Illu – home for needy and orphan children in 2006 with 32 kids with an intention to serve the orphan community to provide them love, accommodation, education and good health care.

Recently we celebrated 10^th anniversary of “Maa Illu” and now 280 kids are living, taking shelter and education in the home. More than 800 children have lived and got molded as responsible citizens of India and settled in various professions at different places. “Maa Illu” was awarded as the best NGO for year 2014 by Sakshi group and recently in national capital Delhi, I have been awarded “Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Seva Ratna” by SC/ST employees’ forum. We have been fighting for the cause of constitutional fundamental rights of orphans by constitutional amendment for many years, conducting many state level and national level seminars and hundreds of representations to parliamentarians and bureaucrats, Karimnagar Member of Parliament Sri Vinod Kumar garu has introduced a private members bill by understanding the seriousness of the cause in the house and it will be debated in this coming monsoon session of the parliament. I am confident that the bill will become an act and it will light the lives of more than 4 crore orphans in the country.

This is about my life till now and I will remain fighting for the upliftment of disadvantaged sections of the society.