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Hyderabad: The BJP-led Centre commemorates 17 September as Liberation Day, and Telanganas erstwhile Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government observed it as Integration Day..
Now in power in Telangana, the Congress will celebrate it as Praja Palana Dinotsavam, or Peoples Governance Day.. The day is of immense historical significance in the Deccan but has communal overtones..
It becomes a political flashpoint every year, more now than ever as different parties in Telangana observe the day with a moniker in line with their ideology and position.. Opposition parties BRS and BJP are objecting to Chief Minister Revanth Reddys appellation, questioning his rationale behind the naming of the day...
Over the past few years, the Telangana BJP has been trying to galvanise sentiments for Vimochana Divas (Liberation Day), portraying the occasion of Hyderabads integration into India as the liberation of the vast majority of Hindus from a tyrannical Nizam rule...
The Hyderabad police action, strategised by him, respecting the sentiments of the locals suffering under the cruel Nizams rule, led to the surrender of the Nizams Razakars, without bloodshed, Home Minister Amit Shah said at the Secunderabad Parade Grounds on 17 September last year, while attending the Union Ministry of Cultures Liberation Day event...
