‘Liberation’ from Nizam, or ‘Integration’ with India? Hyderabad, Sept 17, 1948, via BJP vs TRS politics | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express
BJP claims Telangana’s ruling party did not observe the day all these years to avoid upsetting ally AIMIM; will commemorate it as day of unity, says KCR govt.
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‘Liberation’ from Nizam, or ‘Integration’ with India? Hyderabad, Sept 17, 1948, via BJP vs TRS politics
BJP claims Telangana’s ruling party did not observe the day all these years to avoid upsetting ally AIMIM; will commemorate it as day of unity, says KCR govt.
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Hyderabad | Updated: September 6, 2022 12:04:39 pm
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Mir Osman Ali Khan, Nizam of Hyderabad. (Express archive photo)The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the BJP have now squared off over the commemoration of September 17, the day in 1948 when the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad merged with India. While the TRS-led state administration has decided to observe the day as Telangana National Unity Day, the BJP-led Union government has announced it will observe it as Hyderabad State Liberation Day.
With the Assembly polls in the state scheduled for next year, the BJP has latched on to the anniversary of the historic occasion to score political points against the TRS and its ally AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) led by Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi. It criticised the ruling party for not observing the occasion the eight years it has been in power, linking it to its “reluctance” to upset Owaisi.
The Owaisi-led party says that the original Majlis – or MIM (Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen) – which is linked to the violence in the months leading up to the princely state’s merger with India, ceased to exist after September 17. According to historian Mohammed Nooruddin Khan, before the MIM’s president Kasim Razvi and other senior leaders left for Pakistan, they handed over the party’s reins to Abdul Wahed Owaisi, Asaduddin’s grandfather, who was not associated with the outfit before that.
BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh has claimed that the TRS was forced to announce last week its plans to observe ‘Telangana National Unity Day’ because of the Centre’s plans to commemorate it as the ‘Day of Liberation’. The Central government plans to organise a massive public meeting at the Parade Grounds. Union Minister for Tourism and Culture G Kishan Reddy, who is the Lok Sabha MP from Secunderabad, wrote to Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, popularly known as KCR, on September 3, inviting him to be the guest of honour at the Parade Grounds event.
The Hyderabad event will be presided over by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, followed by year-long events in the run-up to the 75th anniversary of the occasion in September next year.
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