BJP Organizes Tiranga Yatra March In Hyderabad

Taking inspiration from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day speech in Telangana, the State BJP Mahila Morcha today organized a "Tiranga Yatra" along the Necklace Road in the Tank Bund area.

Earlier On August 15, Modi had exhorted the people of Telangana to take up a march to celebrate Hyderabad's liberation from the Nizam rule and its merger with the Union Of India. He had asked people to commemorate the State's and the nation's freedom fighters during the Yatra.

The march was taken up from the Ambedkar statue to the Vivekananda statue along the Hussain Sagar lake by hundreds of women from various organizations and institutions. Union Minister and organizer of the march Bandaru Dattatreya, BJP MLA Chintala Ramachandra Reddy, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sanghatan Vice Chairman Perala Chandrashekar Rao, BJP city unit president B Venkat Reddy, retired IAS officer Nirmala Gonela and others also joined in and paid homage to the B R Ambedkar statue.

On the occasion, Dattatreya reminded the participants of two of the Centre's women upliftment schemes - Beti Bachao and Beti Padhao. Referring to women's upliftment, he praised the Indian Olympic contigent's sportswomen and said, "P V Sindhu, Sakshi Malik and Dipa Karmakar displayed impressive feats of courage and determination when all seemed lost. This proves that given the opportunity, women, too, can achieve wonders."

At the end of the march, the union minister congratulated the organizers for carrying out a "successful" rally and inspiring the people of Telangana and the nation.