Telangana BJP Wants State To Celebrate Hyderabad’s Merger With Indian Union, Will KCR Agree?

Stepping up its campaign for the official celebration of the day of merger of erstwhile Nizam the state with the Indian Union in 1948, the Telangana unit of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) today submitted a memorandum to Governor E S L Narasimhan, urging him to direct the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government to accept the demand.

The erstwhile Hyderabad State of Nizam was merged with the Indian Union on 17 September 1948 following the intervention of the country's first Deputy Prime Minister Sardar Patel.

Describing 17 September as ‘Telangana Liberation Day’, the BJP has been demanding that the day be celebrated officially.

In a memorandum submitted to the governor today, the opposition party also demanded that the Telangana freedom movement is made part of the school syllabus.

It’s other demands included installation of the statue of Shoiabullah Khan, a journalist who was reportedly killed for speaking against the Nizam rule, at Necklace Road here and developing places of historical significance as “inspiration centres”.

Telangana BJP president K Laxman had recently undertaken a week-long yatra in different districts of the state, demanding that the day is celebrated officially.

The BJP proposes to organise a public meeting on 17 September.

With inputs from PTI.