Telangana is bracing for Sep 17th when it joined the Indian Union coming out of the wicked rule of Nizam whose private army Razakaars tortured people of the state crushing their freedom. Political parties like BJP,TRS,MIM,Congress, Communists are at logger heads on how Sep 17 should be celebrated.
While BJP, Communists and others are demanding the day be celebrated as Liberation Day, TRS and others like MIM are planning to celebrate the day as reunion day, merger day. It is known that KCR CM of Telangana many times praised Nizam rule and this hurt the sentiments of people.
BJP accused him of playing appeasement politics to woo MIM, while TRS accuses BJP of stoking communal passions. Under these circumstances, a freedom fighter exposed razakars and how they tortured people. 89-year-old Challa Chandra Reddy recollecting the sufferings of people , said “August 27 is observed as a dark day in Bairanpalli. It was on this day in 1948 that 92 residents of Bairanpalli were slaughtered mercilessly. Women were raped and terrorised. Razakaars went up to the extent of making women play bathukamma naked,”
He added “This village is not called Bairanpalli anymore. We have renamed it Veera Bairanpalli,” He said just before the police action, people of Bairanpalli fought Razakars bravely and exposed politicians for their double standards.
He said “We have received no support at all from the governments over the years. The village remains as it was in 1948, with no proper facilities. Politicians come and make promises, but those are never fulfilled. We struggled to get freedom fighters’ pensions and many of us still have not got anything,”
Sarpanch of the village T.Raja Malliah speakign to scribes says “Several politicians visited the village and promised to develop it. But the promises were never fulfilled. Almost all the 700 families in the village are eligible for pension. At present, only 25 get freedom fighters’ pension. The buruju (ramparts) need to be repaired and the names of martyrs must be inscribed on it,”
Even now the village has no junior college and villagers have to travel 18 km to Cherial for studies and 40 kms to Jangaon for treatment. Even the drainage system is not upto the mark.
