Centre to celebrate 17 September as Hyderabad Liberation Day

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New Delhi: As a part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the Centre has stated will probably be commemorating ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’ on 17 September with year-long celebrations.

The date assumes significance because it was on 17 September that the erstwhile Hyderabad State beneath Nizam rule merged with the Indian Union in 1948.

Union Minister for Tradition G Kishan Reddy wrote to the chief ministers of Telangana, Maharashtra and Karnataka inviting them for the 17 September celebrations. The programme will showcase the lives and sacrifices of people that fought in opposition to the atrocities of the Nizam and the Razakars, Reddy stated.

The celebrations might be a becoming tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and all others who contributed throughout the liberation battle, he additional stated.

In a separate letter to Telangana chief minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao, the Hyderabad MP stated the state authorities must mark 17 September as ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’.

“This present day should be a celebration of the struggles of individuals of erstwhile Hyderabad in opposition to each British colonialism in addition to the feudal autocratic rule of Nizams,” he stated. In response to him such celebrations should be a recognition that the individuals of those lands had lengthy struggled in opposition to (oblique) British rule.

“The inaugural programme of this commemoration is scheduled to be organised at Parade grounds in Hyderabad on 17 September, 2022. The Hon’ble Union House Minister has kindly consented to grace the event as chief visitor,” Reddy’s letter learn.

Hyderabad was beneath the Nizam’s rule and the police had launched ‘Operation Polo’ for its liberation that ended on 17 September, 1948.

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Nevertheless, Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao’s workplace stated on Saturday that the day might be celebrated as ‘Telangana Nationwide Integration Day’. In response to the CMO assertion, ‘Telangana Nationwide Integration Day’ might be celebrated from 16-18 September.

The announcement was made shortly after All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday wrote to the Union dwelling minister asking him to make use of the phrase ‘Nationwide Integration Day’ quite than mere “liberation”.

Recalling Hyderabad’s revolutionary fighters Turrebaz Khan and Maulvi Alauddin’s sacrifices in opposition to British rulers, Owaisi stated the widespread Hindus and Muslims of erstwhile Hyderabad state had been advocates of united India beneath a democratic secular and republican authorities.

“It should be famous that the accession and merger of assorted princely states weren’t solely about liberating the territories from autocratic rulers. Extra importantly, the nationalist motion rightly noticed the individuals of those territories as an integral a part of unbiased India.

Subsequently, the phrase ‘Nationwide Integration Day’ could also be extra apposite, quite than mere liberation,” the Hyderabad MP stated within the letter.

The struggles of the individuals of the erstwhile Hyderabad state in opposition to colonialism, feudalism and autocracy are an emblem of nationwide integration quite than merely a case of “liberation” of a bit of land, he added.

It’s with an eye fixed on the upcoming Meeting polls that the Centre has determined to organise this year-long celebration to mark the 75 years of Hyderabad’s independence. Earlier, the BJP had organised a nationwide govt assembly in Hyderabad which was attended by the representatives of all of the events within the nation that was later adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally.

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