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BJP plan will go kaput: Kavitha
Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrated ‘Telangana Liberation Day’ on Saturday, the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) accused it of ‘selective amnesia’ and said this political strategy to expand its presence would not work in the State.
Hyderabad: Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrated ‘Telangana Liberation Day’ on Saturday, the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) accused it of ‘selective amnesia’ and said this political strategy to expand its presence would not work in the State.
“The BJP has the habit of raising communal issue whenever it feels that there is an opportune time. Even during the time of agitation for separate statehood for Telangana, we had always said this is a merger day, not a liberation day,” TRS MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha said.
The BJP has been demanding that the Telangana government officially celebrate the occasion as ‘Liberation Day’ as Hyderabad State was ‘liberated’ through ‘police action’ on September 17, 1948, more than a year after India got independence.
The BJP considers the Nizam’s rule in the erstwhile Hyderabad State as ‘tyrannical’, ‘oppressive’ and ‘autocratic’ and claims that Telugu language was discouraged as the medium of instruction in educational institutions during their period.
Kavitha noted that when Goa merged into India, the Central government called it liberation, while the Telangana (erstwhile Hyderabad State) operation in 1948 was termed as ‘police action, and they never said liberation of Telangana’.
“So, that jargon (liberation) was never used. And if you look at national perspective, India itself is the union of many princely States, now you want to go back and celebrate, what exactly you are trying to achieve?” Kavitha asked.
“You only want to recall the 1948 incident, what about 1969 incidents of Telangana agitation, what about 1952, what about 2001? Many kids were killed. In 1969, 369 students were killed in police firing, the BJP does not want to talk about it,” Kavitha said.
“The BJP-TDP government was in power. Nobody wanted to talk about the Liberation Day, why speak about it now? You can’t have selective amnesia. When you speak about historical incidents, certainly the BJP has a habit of selective amnesia, very comfortably and conveniently they pick and choose the facts.
We only say it’s a merger day. We always observed it as a merger day, we will continue to do so,” she said.
“Politically it won’t work, because the BJP has negligible presence in Telangana. Just to increase their political visibility in Telangana, they have started to rake up this issue.
People do not have any sentiment towards this particular issue that the BJP is talking about, the Congress does not talk about it, the TDP does not talk about it (liberation),” Kavitha added.
