Home Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader Nayini Narsimha Reddy has alleged that the Opposition parties have been demanding celebration of the annexation of erstwhile Hyderabad State with Indian Union officially only for political gains.
Speaking after hoisting the national flag along with Deputy Chief Minister Md. Mahmood Ali at Telangana Bhavan, here on Sunday Mr. Narsimha Reddy sought to know why both the Congress and Telugu Desam Party (TDP), did not celebrate the day as official event when they were in power.
Mr. Narsimha Reddy said that the BJP was trying to make electoral gains by encouraging communal politics. However, the people were not willing to fall into its trap, he said and opined that Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s participation in the BJP’s Liberation Day public meeting was not correct. He urged the BJP leadership to intervene in the party’s attitude on the issue here.
Participating in the Liberation Day celebrations at BJP’s office here, party president K. Laxman criticised the TRS Government alleging that the previous governments had neglected Telangana history and the present government was also treading the same path. Party leaders Bandaru Dattatreya, G. Kishan Reddy and P. Muralidhar Rao also attended the event.
Mr. Laxman said the history of Telangana would be included in the school curriculum to inspire the present day youth when the BJP would come to power in the State. He stated that the party had plans to construct the liberation day memorial on the lines of Sardar Patel's statue being set up in Gujarat. The party would continue its struggle for official celebration of the liberation day until achieving it, he noted.
At Makhdoom Bhavan, State secretary of Communist Party of India (CPI) Chada Venkat Reddy said hoisted the national flag to commemorate the merger day. Later at a public meeting held at Ravi Narayana Reddy auditorium he alleged that the TRS Government was trampling the rights of people and it was time all sections were united to take up struggle for employment and land and other rights.
The TDP also celebrated the merger day at NTR Bhavan, where party leaders L. Ramana, Ravula Chandrasekhar Reddy, Motkupalli Narsimhlu and others criticised the TRS for not organising merger day officially, when it had demanded for the same when in opposition.
Freedom fighter Babu Rao Varma hoisted the national flag at the Ashoka Pillar in Koti to mark the merger of Hyderabad State with Indian Union. Along with N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Bandaru Dattareya and others he recalled the sacrifices made by people to achieve it.
