President - APUWJ

As a working journalist, father had been quite active in the matters of the journalists' union. The union of working journalists was started in Andhra Pradesh in the late fifties and continues to the present day as the Andhra Pradesh Union of Working Journalists (APUWJ). Father presided over its activities seven times; at one time he had been both the president as well as its general secretary. The only person who had been president for so many times in the history of APUWJ, sometimes consecutively -

1964-65, 1965-66,
1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1974-76, [longest running president - 7 years]
1983-85

The union years had been taxing to him to say the least, especially when a schism threatened to undermine the long years of effort to bring it to a state of a recognized and respectable body in representing the working journalists. The then press club of Hyderabad located its offices in the new building called Desodharaka Bhavan adjoining the Lal Bahadur Stadium. In the first year of its operations in the new building in 1970, father was the president of the union. Unfortunately, his unstinted effort in heralding a new chapter in the Union's activities largely went unnoticed in the annals of the state press, owing in part to the split that occurred after father served it as president for the last time before his death six years later.