Hyderabad-Karnataka region celebrates Vimochana Diwas

The 66th Vimochana Diwas (Liberation day) was celebrated in Hyderabad-Karnataka region on Tuesday, to mark freedom from the despotic rule of the Nizam, by hoisting the National Flag and honouring the freedom fighters for their contribution in the liberation movement.

Many schools, colleges and social organisations in the region celebrated the day by organising cultural programmes and lectures on the movement in Gulbarga, Raichur, Yadgri, Koppal and Bidar districts. The administrations of the respective districts joined hands with the Hyderabad-Karnataka Vimochana Samitis to organise the functions.

Addressing a district level program in Raichur, medical education minister Sharan Prakash Patil said that UPA government provided justice to the region by ammending to the Constitution.

“Now people are enjoying special package and reservations in education and recruitments,” he said.

The Liberation Day
Though India got Independence on August 15, 1947, the Hyderabad Princely State was merged with the Indian Union on September 17, 1948. The celebration, which was a social affair for six decades, got the official stamp of approval by the Janata Dal(S)-BJP government of 2006, when the then chief minister HD Kumaraswamy, along with his then deputy BS Yeddyurappa, joined the celebrations for the first time.

In the subsequent years, except for 2007, Yeddyurappa participated in the celebrations in 2008 and 2009 and unfurled the National Flag.

CM stay away
Many activists and BJP workers condemned the move of chief minister Siddaramaiah, who did not participate in the event. “Siddaramaiah has neglected the feelings of the people of the region by remaining absent,” one of them said.