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Political Parties Celebrated ‘Hyderabad Merger Day’ With the Hoisting of Tricolour

Political parties in Telangana lifted the country flag at their workplaces to acknowledge ‘Hyderabad Merger Day’ on Thursday and paid recognitions for the independence fighters who battled for the merger of the former Hyderabad state with the Indian Union.

While the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the Opposition Congress, and different gatherings commended the event as ‘Hyderabad Merger Day’, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) remembered it as ‘Telangana Liberation Day‘.

It was on this day in 1948 that the regal territory of Hyderabad converged with the Indian Union after the police action, as the Indian military activity against the Nizam’s army is prominently called.

The commemorations at Telangana Bhavan, the TRS base camp, were driven by the party’s Working President and Minister K. T. Rama Rao. He raised the country flag and garlanded the statues of ‘Telugu Talli’ and Telangana ideologue Professor Jayashankar.

Ministers Mohammed Mehmood Ali, P. Ajay, and TRS head partook in the program while following Covid-19 safeguards.

‘Telangana Merger Day’ was additionally celebrated at Gandhi Bhavan, the central base of the Congress party. State Congress chief Uttam Kumar Reddy unwound the country flag.

He said Hyderabad converged with India, because of the endeavours of then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. He asserted that particularly the Congress and the Communists battled for Hyderabad state’s merger with India.

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and the BJP  had nothing to do with the merger, he included. The Congress head said that it was tragic that a communal shading was being given to the noteworthy battle.

The battle against the Nizam had nothing to do with religion except for by connecting it with religion, these parties were attempting to contort history, the Congress head included.

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS) likewise observed ‘Telangana Merger Day’ with their leaders lifting the public banner.

The BJP commemorated ‘Telangana Liberation Day’ with the raising of the country flag at the party office by its head K. Laxman. He said the party would proceed with its battle till the state government acknowledges the interest to formally commend the day.

He said: It was on this day that Telangana gained real freedom and consequently, it should be commended officially.

Another BJP head Ramachandra Rao affirmed that the TRS government was not commending the day formally because of stress from the AIMIM.

Union Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy raised the country flag at his home in New Delhi. He said the official festival of ‘Telangana Liberation Day’ will be the real recognition for every one of the individuals who set out their lives for the freedom of Hyderabad state.

Kishan Reddy included: While India got its Liberation on August 15, 1947, the then Hyderabad state governed by the Nizam acquiesced to the Indian Union only on September 17, 1948. A people’s movement against the Nizam and his Razakar armed force proved to be fruitful when Sardar Patel dispatched ‘Operation Polo’ (police action). On September 17, individuals across Telangana and parts of present-day Marathwada and Karnataka mark a second Independence Day.

The BJP has been demanding throughout the previous twenty years that the day be formally honoured like in certain areas of Maharashtra and Karnataka which were important for Hyderabad state.

Like the past governments in unified Andhra Pradesh, the TRS government in Telangana has dismissed requests for formally celebrating the day. The TRS leaders blamed the BJP for enjoying divisive politics.

Muslim societies have been contradicting any celebrations as is commonly said that Muslims were slaughtered during the “police action”.

The AIMIM keeps up that there is just a single Independence Day for the whole nation and thus, there was no requirement for separate celebrations in Telangana.