VIJAYAWADA: Amaravati Development Committee chairman Jasti Veeranjaneyulu requested the state government to celebrate the birth anniversary of Vasireddy Venkatadri Naidu, the ruler of Amaravati (Dharanikota) between 1761 and 1817, as a state programme and urged that his fort be turned into a museum. He wrote to Chief Secretary L V Subramanyam stating that observing the ruler’s birthday on April 27 as a state event would deem fit his contribution to Amaravati.