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Separate celebrations by the Centre and the state takes aggressive politics to a brand new degree.(FILE)
Hyderabad:
Union Residence Minister Amit Shah and Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekhar Rao will each unfurl the nationwide flag in Hyderabad on Saturday in two separate “September 17” official celebrations, in what’s constructing as much as be a day of intense and aggressive political exercise within the state.
The Centre will, for the primary time, have fun September 17 as “Hyderabad Liberation Day” – on at the present time, the previous Hyderabad State beneath the Nizam merged with the Indian Union, greater than a yr after India’s Independence.
For the BJP, tomorrow’s occasions in Telangana is not going to simply be about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday.
The Telangana authorities has deliberate what it calls “Telangana Unity Day” and has introduced three days of celebrations. It is a crucial message for Mr Rao or KCR, who has been rallying opposition events to tackle the BJP within the 2024 nationwide election.
Union Residence Minister Amit Shah will lead the Centre’s celebrations. He’ll unfurl the nationwide flag on the Military Parade Floor in Secunderabad, in a grand occasion for which invitations have gone to the Chief Ministers of two neighbouring states wherein the BJP is in energy – Karnataka and Maharashtra. Basavaraj Bommai and Eknath Shinde will each attend the operate. Each states embody elements ceded from the previous Hyderabad state.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi had additionally written to the Centre and the state authorities asking for the day to be celebrated as “Nationwide Integration Day”. The Hyderabad MP will hoist the nationwide flag and maintain a public assembly as we speak and take out a “Tiranga bike rally” to mark the celebrations.
Mr Owaisi has stated he’ll take part within the state and central authorities occasions provided that they name it Nationwide Integration Day.
When questioned why the AIMIM by no means celebrated the day earlier, Mr Owaisi stated the central authorities ought to be requested the identical query.
The AIMIM chief stated each Hindus and Muslims within the former Nizam state had needed to accede to the democratic, secular Indian Republic.
Leaders of KCR’s Telangana Rashtra Samiti are asking why the BJP isn’t celebrating the mixing of Gujarat’s Junagadh in India, which befell on November 9, 1947, and needs to focus solely on Hyderabad.
Whereas KCR has been on the forefront of makes an attempt to launch a nationwide confederation of opposition events, and will launch a nationwide social gathering himself, the BJP has grow to be politically aggressive in Telangana.
The BJP gained just one meeting seat within the Telangana elections in 2018, nevertheless it subsequently gained three byelections, and likewise native physique polls in Hyderabad. The social gathering sees an enormous political alternative in Telangana, with a weakened Congress unable to problem the TRS strongly.
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