MIM Chief Asadudddin Owaisi wrote a letter to Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, suggesting that September 17 be celebrated as National Integration Day.
This day must be a celebration of the struggles of the people of erstwhile Hyderabad against both British colonialism as well as the feudal autocratic rule of Nizams he suggested.
Addressing a press conference, Owaisi announced that on September 16, all MLAs of AIMIM and others would embark on a Tiranga rally on motorcycles and will organise a public meeting for national integration.
On ‘Razakars’ or the volunteers who had supported Nizam’s Army, Owaisi said that they left for Pakistan. “Those who wanted to go have gone. Those who love the country choose to remain here,” he said.
The Hyderabad MP suggested to Telangana Chief Minister that a befitting celebration may be organised at University Women’s College, Koti. The building was once the British Residency and was subject to a daring attack by Maulvi Alauddin and Turrebaz Khan on July 17, 1857. Maulvi Alauddin was the first prisoner of Kaala Pani (Andaman Cellular Jail) and Turrebaz Khan was perhaps one of the first martyrs of India’s war of Independence.
