In a marked departure from the last few years, the TRS and the Telangana JAC observed Telangana Merger Day on Friday instead of Telangana Liberation day. In fact, for many years, September 17 had passed off unnoticed in the state until the agitation for separate Telangana was re-launched by TRS in 2001. Since then, the TRS has been observing the day as T Liberation Day, but has decided to observe it as martyrs day henceforth in order not to hurt the Muslim community who it feels perceive the definition of liberation as anti-Nizam.

Except for the change in the definition, the TRS continued to celebrate the telangana merger day. The Telanagna Rashtra Samithi members hoisted the Telangana flag in Hyderabad and all the districts and observed two-minute silence in memory of the Telangana martyrs. The only addition made this time was that the JAC members met the families of those students and youth who allegedly committed suicide for the separate state cause since the T movement intensified, the members also offered some financial help to the familes of the deceased.

However, the proposal of TRS to celebrate the martyrs day was opposed by the BJP and the MIM. While the BJP objected the JAC for observing September 17 as "Telangana Merger Day" instead of T liberation day and said that it would not join TRS in the celebrations. Earlier the MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi warned the state government about the celebrations falling on Friday due to which security was beefed up at many places in the twin cities. The Telangana liberation day is observed to commemorate Telagana region's freedom from the Nizam rule one year after the independence.

Published Date : SEP 18, Saturday 12:50PM IST

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