Hyderabad sources have reported that while the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the main opposition Congress and others celebrated the merger day, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrated it as "liberation day". Meanwhile it was on this day in 1948 that the erstwhile Hyderabad State merged with the Indian union following the Indian military operation against the Nizam's Army.
According to sources Telangana Home Minister Nayani Narasimha Reddy unfurled the tricolor at the TRS headquarters in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali and other leaders. Further when alleging that the BJP was dividing people on the issue, Narasimha Reddy advised the party to desist from communal politics. The BJP celebrated the day on a large scale with unfurling of the national flag at many places.
Moreover
at the BJP state office, state president K. Laxman hoisted the tricolor where
he targeted the TRS government for going back on its promise to officially
celebrate the day. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is to address a public
meeting at Nizamabad later in the day. The Congress state President Uttam Kumar
Reddy hoisted the national flag at the party office.
