Kavitha rules out Hyderabad Liberation Day fete

Hyderabad: The ruling TRS has rejected Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu’s suggestion that ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’ on September 17 be officially celebrated and accused the BJP of trying to indulge in ‘divisive politics.’ “Moderate Telangana people do not believe in the Liberation Day.

We believe in a day where Telangana State was merged into the Indian Union,” TRS MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha told a news agency here. Venkaiah Naidu had last week said that even though people all over the country celebrated and rejoiced the hard-won freedom from British on August 15, 1947, those living in the erstwhile Hyderabad State had to wait for celebration till September 17, 1948, when the region was liberated from the tyrannical Nizam's rule and integrated with the rest of India.

Kavitha, the Lok Sabha member from Nizamabad, noted that even during the movement spearheading statehood demand for Telangana, TRS always used to celebrate it as a merger day, and hoist national flag in party office on that day because the "then Andhra government would not recognise this day." "But then the BJP's view of thinking about it as liberation from the Nizam's rule does not have greater acceptance in Telangana society.

But as a day of merger with Indian Union, we will certainly acknowledge it and celebrate it," she said, when her reaction was sought on Venkaiah Naidu's suggestion. Responding to questions, Kavitha, the daughter of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, said: "The very survival of BJP...extreme right-wing party it's divisive politics... that's their only motto. They always call it a liberation day because it (Telangana) has been out of Muslim rule. We will not accept that."