BJP for official celebration of 'Telangana Liberation Day'

HYDERABAD: BJP Andhra Pradesh unit today demanded that the " Telangana Liberation Day" on September 17 be celebrated officially by the state government.

All programmes on September 17 should be celebrated officially as Telangana region was freed from the clutches of erstwhile Nizam rule, one year after the Independence, Chairman BJP Telangana Struggle Committee (TSC) T Rajeshwar Rao told reporters here.

He appealed to leaders of ruling Congress party, TDP and left parties of Telangana region to join in the celebrations and take pledge to achieve separate statehood for Telangana.

"If Congress party is sincere about separate Telangana state, it should move a bill in the on-going session and our party will support it," Rao said.

The party would launch a 11-day yatra from August 26 in five districts of south Telangana to express solidarity with the families of those who sacrificed their lives for the cause of separate state, TSC chairman said.

Of the 400 people who committed suicide in support of Telangana state, 75 persons, including students, hailed from five districts of south Telangana, Rao claimed.

Party legislator Lakshminarayana, who defeated APCC president D Srinivas in recent Assembly bypolls in Telangana region, would lead the yatra in which state unit president G Kishan Reddy and other leaders would participate.

The yatra would be flagged off by Lakshminarayana in Nalgonda, Rao said.