Telangana on Tuesday stirred a controversy when he threatened to "bury" the media "ten feet under the earth" if they continue to "insult" the newly-carved out state.

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Rao, at loggerheads with the Andhra Pradesh government over disbursement of assets and liabilities of the undivided state, also demanded that Telangana "must be respected".

"Those who insult Telangana, its existence and prestige, will be buried 10 feet under the earth," said KCR, as he is popularly known, while addressing a gathering after garlanding a statue of Kaloji Narayana Rao, a renown poet and literary critic, commemorating his birth cennetanry, at Nakkalagutta in the district.

Rao later laid the foundation stone of the proposed Kaloji Narayana Rao

Cultural Centre to be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 12 crore on a 3.5-acre plot at Balasamudram. 

Speaking on the occasion at the National Institute of Technology Auditorium, Rao said the cultural centre would be developed with an auditorium with a seating capacity of 5,000.

The centre would have a huge statue of Kaloji and a library, where the Kaloji Foundation's office would be located, he said.

Kaloji was a great poet and literary critic who fought for the people's cause and considered people's problem as his own problems, Rao said.

Telangana government would recommend to the central government to release a postal stamp in the name of Kaloji.

The state would also establish a university in the name of Kaloji, he said.

Rao also announced that Rs 10 lakh would be deposited in the name of the Kaloji Foundation. Interest accruing on that amount would be paid to Kaloji's kin, whose financial condition was not good.