Kancherla paleam

Kancherla paleam కంచర్ల పాలెం కంచర్ల పాలెం
village
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Guntur
Government
• Body	Tenali
Languages
• Official	Telugu
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Nearest city	Tenali
Lok Sabha constituency	Guntur
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Tenali
Civic agency	Tenali

Kancherla palem is a village in Andhra Pradesh, India.^[1] It is situated on a state highway between Tenali and Vijayawada, in Guntur district. It has a long history and many famous peoples come from this village.The famous rowdy sheeter Katevarapu devaiah born in this village

The people of Kancherla palem are more prominent, not only in Guntur but in the whole of Andhra Pradesh. One eminent personality was Chukkapalli Jogaiah who was the number one business man in Andhra Pradesh in the early 1890s to 1900s. The first domestic bomb in India was made in Kancharla palem by Chokka Rao.^[2] He planted that bomb to kill Chukkapalli Jogaiah. Jogaiah survived that bombing but the incident became very famous and chokka rao was arrested by the British government. In later days This bomb case became a part of the history chapter for degree students. Chukkapalli Jogaiah's son Chukkapalli Venkat Satyanarayana was a prominent Indian freedom fighter and close friend to Kalluri Chandramouli and Venegalla Satayanarayana. He was the holder of the amarpatra. He represented the southern Indian freedom fighter association meeting held in AhamadaBad, Nagpur and in Delhi. He strived for Indian freedom under the Gandhi views. He was one of the few people in India who inaugurated a Gandhi statue in 1948. He died in his nineties on December 31, 2000.

References

1. Place Names Society of India. Studies in Indian Place Names. Geetha Book House. p. 14. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
2. Venkatarangaiya, Mamidipudi (1965). The Freedom Struggle in Andhra Pradesh. Andhra Pradesh State Committee Appointed for the Compilation of a History of the Freedom Struggle in Andhra Pradesh. p. 62.