The Centre on Tuesday introduced that it’ll have a good time September 17 yearly as ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’.
In a notification, the Union House Ministry stated Hyderabad didn’t get independence for 13 months after India’s independence on August 15, 1947 and was underneath the rule of the Nizams.
The area was liberated from Nizam’s rule on September 17, 1948 after police motion specifically ‘Operation Polo’.
“Whereas, there has been a demand from the people of the region that 17th September may be celebrated as Hyderabad Liberation Day.
“Now with a purpose to keep in mind the martyrs who liberated Hyderabad and to infuse the flame of patriotism within the minds of youth, the Authorities of India determined to have a good time seventeenth day of September yearly as ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’,” the notification read.
When India gained independence, the Razakars called for Hyderabad state to either join Pakistan or to become a Muslim dominion while resisting its merger with the Union of India.
The people of the region fought valiantly against the atrocities of the Razakars to merge the region into the Union of India.
The Razakars, a private militia, had committed atrocities and defended the erstwhile Nizam rule in Hyderabad.
On September 17, 1948, the then Hyderabad state, which was under the rule of the Nizams, was annexed into the Union of India following military action, initiated by the then Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
The Narendra Modi government had held event on September 17 every year in last few years to mark ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah had also attended the event in the past.