All units of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the district and across the State are gearing up with an action plan to stage protests and resort to agitations in as many locations as possible, till the Telangana Rashtra Samithi Government approves four of its demands
They include that Government observe September 17 as a State event, celebrate Telangana’s Independence on the said day, revise the State’s syllabus to include the history of Telangana martyrs of the armed struggle and develop such places of martyrdom as ‘Spoorthi’ centres.
It proposes to surround all Revenue Divisional Offices in the State starting from the first week of September. In the event of it’s disapproval, the party has decided to hoist the National Flag at about 32,000 polling booth centres across the State, he informed. And as for Nalgonda district, the tri-colour will be unfurled at about 1,200 locations.
“We in Telangana hoist the flag and celebrate Independence Day on August 15 every year, though we were freed a year later. Is it a bad thing to hoist the flag on a day that is so important for Telangana?,” wondered district unit president Nookala Narsimha Reddy.
A month from now, regions of Maharashtra and Karnataka, which were a part of the erstwhile princely State of Hyderabad will celebrate its ‘Vimochana Diwas’ (Liberation Day), marking their freedom from the Nizam’s rule on September 17, 1948. “However, In Hyderabad - the headquarters of the Nizam, where people were subjected to the most tyrannical and oppressive rule don’t get to celebrate their actual Independence. Thanks to Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and his doubletalk,” he said.
It was Mr. Rao who proposed during the Telangana movement that the day be declared Liberation Day. “All that he’s calculating now is votes, and not the promises he made,” he said. A memorandum was submitted to Collector Gaurav Uppal on Wednesday.