Even as Telangana BJP was pulling out all the stops to make its “Hyderabad liberation Day” celebrations a big success and mobilise big numbers for a public meeting at Warangal to be addressed by the party president Amit Shah, many other angles of the historic day of the merger of erstwhile Hyderabad state in Indian union have come in to sharp focus.
While the BJP leaders and cadres were quite excited over the presence of their top most leader to celebrate the occasion, various other organizations, specially the Muslims were not hiding their anxiety and apprehensions over the hullabaloo.
BJP secretary N Indrasena Reddy told a news conference in Hyderabad today that the party was celebrating the day when Hyderabad was liberated from “tyrannical” rule of Nizam as the state government had failed to celebrate the day.
“Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao while agitating for separate Telangana state had said that the new state will officially celebrate the day. Now he should explain why his government was not celebrating the day”, he said.
“September 17 should be celebrated as grandly as August 15 is celebrated”, he said demanding that the history of the struggle against Nizam should be included in the school curriculum. While Chief Minister KCR was silent on the issue, his fire brand daughter and MP Kavitha has strongly rejected the BJP’s demand. “It was not liberation day but a day of merger and we will celebrate it as such”, she said.
Several other organizations including Telangana Joint Action Committee have also opposed the idea of any celebrations.
A prominent Muslim organization Majlis-e-Tameer-e-Millat said that the demand for celebrating the day was part of the venomous campaign to distort the history and image of the NIzam of Hyderabad.