Hyderabad, Sept 15 (Maxim News): State BJP President and Union Minister for Tourism and Culture, G. Kishan Reddy was leading a bike rally as part of Hyderabad Liberation Day celebrations, today.
Kishan Reddy along with several leaders and workers of the party, began the bike rally from Parade Grounds in Secunderabad. BJP’s election in-charge for Telangana and former union minister Prakash Javadekar flagged off the rally from Secunderabad to Parkala in Warangal district.
Carrying BJP flags and raising slogans, the participants were heading to Parkala. After covering a distance of 300 km, the rally will culminate in a public meeting. The BJP is demanding that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s government celebrate September 17 as Hyderabad Liberation Day, include lessons on martyrs in the textbooks, and also establish martyrs memorials.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be participating in the main official function organized by the Centre at the parade Grounds in Secunderabad on September 17 to mark Hyderabad Liberation Day. He will review a parade by the armed forces.
Like last year, the KCR government in Telangana will be celebrating September 17 as National Integration Day. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will hoist the National flag at the main function to be held in Hyderabad. The National Integration Day will also be celebrated in all the districts, where state ministers or district collectors will unfurl the National flag.
It may be recalled that it was on September 17, 1948, that the then princely state of Hyderabad, comprising Telangana and parts of present-day Karnataka and Maharashtra, acceded to the Indian Union following India’s military action against Nizam’s Army. (Maxim News)
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