Union home minister Amit Shah raised the political heat in poll-bound Telangana by slamming both the Congress and the K.Chandrashekar Rao-led BRS government for “hesitating” to celebrate the Hyderabad Liberation Day on September 17.
Shah, who inaugurated a martyrs’ memorial in Gorata in Karnataka’s Bidar, where 200 people were massacred by the Razakar militia, stated that the party will celebrate the next Hyderabad Liberation Day at Gorata.
“The people of Hyderabad state were crushed under the Nizam rule even after India got independence from the British,” he said.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi respected the aspirations of Telangana people and decided to celebrate Hyderabad Liberation Day every year,” he said.
HM Shah stated that 200 people were massacred on May 9, 1948. It was an important day for an “emotional person like him” because the “ruthless army of Nizam butchered hundreds of people” for hoisting a 2.5 ft Tricolour.
Despite the massacre, the Congress had never remembered those who fought and sacrificed their lives for Hyderabad liberation only for its greed for vote bank.
Shah stated that without Patel, Hyderabad would not have been liberated. “The Telangana government is hesitating to celebrate the Hyderabad Liberation Day (September 17), but the BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership has decided to celebrate the day in a grand manner,” Shah stated.
