Liberation Day: Mass Rallies Planned Across State

With the TRS government deciding to organise three-day "National Integration Day" celebrations in a grand manner from September 16, officials are gearing up to make elaborate arrangements for the same.

Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar on Wednesday held a meeting with officials at BRKR Bhavan and reviewed the arrangements.

He directed the officials to make elaborate arrangements for the celebrations, and to ensure that the events went off without any hitch.

The CS said that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao would hoist the national flag at Public Gardens on September 17 as part of the celebrations, and would also inaugurate Banjara and Adivasi Bhavans in the city.

A huge rally will be held from Necklace Road in which artists performing around 30 different art forms including Gussadi, Gond and Lambadi dance forms will also participate. Later, the Chief Minister will address a public meeting.

The CS directed officials to conduct mass rallies with students, youth and women in all the Assembly constituencies on September 16. Cultural programs should be held in all the district headquarters on September 18, he added.

GAD Secretary Sheshadri, secretary PR&RD Sandeep Kumar Sultania, Secretary Textiles Jyothi Buddha Prakash, Secretary Tribal Welfare Christina Z Chongthu, Secretary TR&B Srinivasa Raju, Secretary Finance Ronald Rose, Protocol Additional Secretary Arvinder Singh, Commissioner PR & RD Hanmantha Rao and other officials attended the meeting.