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YSR ( Pulivendula Tiger) The Great Leader

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In Cuddapah, YSR is king Yedugoori Sandinti Venkat Reddy was a Lord Venkateshwara devotee till Father Rolls and Sister Noble descended on his Balpanur village, near Pulivendla, Cuddapah district. The two British Protestants struck a chord in Venkat Reddy's heart, and he embraced Christianity. The whole village was soon gunning for his blood. '"My father-in-law had a harrowing time," says Yedugoori Sandinti Jayamma. '"He was about to be ostracised from the village, but sarpanch Achuta Narayana Reddy came to his rescue. And my father-in-law and his family were allowed to stay back in the village. But my father-in-law was too proud to stay back. They moved to Pulivendla in 1933, bought 120 acres of land and settled here… And the whole family embraced Christianity." Was there any reason for the conversion? "We realised Jesus is the real god," says Jayamma, mother of Andhra Pradesh Congress president Yedugoori Sandinti