Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed the official Hyderabad Liberation Day celebrations today at the Secunderabad Parade Grounds as the chief guest.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed the official Hyderabad Liberation Day celebrations today at the Secunderabad Parade Grounds as the chief guest.
Amit Shah also virtually laid the foundation stone for 48 Type-III family houses for the SSB (Sashastra Seema Bal) personnel in Ibrahimpatnam costing Rs 20 crore, and announced the release of special postal covers issued in the memory of Shoebullah Khan, a journalist who was brutally murdered by the Razakars of the Nizam's government for his writings against the Nizam; and Ramji Gond, a Gond leader who had fought bravely with the British army and was martyred.
Many dignitaries, including Union Minister G Kishan Reddy; the Union Home Secretary; the Secretary of the Ministry of Culture; the Director of the Intelligence Bureau; the Director General of the CRPF; and the Director General of the SSB; were present on the occasion.
In his address on the occasion, the Union Home Minister said that Telangana was completing 75 years of its liberation today, and that it was Sardar Patel who, following the principle of Nation First, planned the Hyderabad Police Action and forced the then Nizam's Razakar army to surrender without bloodshed.
Shah said that even after India's independence from the British, the cruel Nizam ruled for 399 days, and that those 399 days were full of torture for the people of this region. Sardar Patel liberated the area respecting the sentiments of its people, he said.
He added that many organizations contributed to the Telangana liberation movement including the Arya Samaj, the Hindu Mahasabha and the Osmania University, and that all that effort came to fruition due to the "Iron Man" Sardar Patel, and the farmers and youth of the Bidar region.
However, for 75 years, because of appeasement politics, no government in the country had made any effort to inform the youth about this great day, he lamented. However, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had started a new tradition upon the completion of 75 years of Telangana's liberation on September 17, 2022 - that the Ministry of Culture of the Government of India would celebrate Telangana Liberation Day every year on September 17. Through this, the new generations would be introduced to the struggle and pay tributes to the great martyrs behind it, he said.