Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in Telangana has rejected Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu’s suggestion to officially celebrate ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’ on September 17 and accused the BJP of trying to indulge in “divisive politics”.
“Moderate Telangana people do not believe in the Liberation Day. We believe in a day where Telangana state was merged into the Indian union,” TRS MP from Nizamabad and the chief of Jagruthi Kalvakuntla Kavitha said.
Venkaiah had last week said that even though people all over the country celebrated and rejoiced the hard won freedom from British on August 15, 1947, those living in the erstwhile Hyderabad state had to wait for celebration till September 17, 1948, when the region was liberated from the tyrannical Nizam’s rule and integrated with the rest of India.
“While the BJP has been demanding for the past many years for official celebration of the Liberation of Hyderabad State, it is unfortunate some political parties view even matters relating to the nation’s integrity through the prism of vote bank politics,” Venkaiah had said.
Kavitha, noted that even during the movement spearheading statehood demand for Telangana, TRS always used to celebrate it as a merger day, and hoist national flag in party office on that day because the “then Andhra government would not recognise this day”.
