Centre declares Sept 17 as Hyderabad Liberation Day
Home Minister Amit Shah calls it ‘historic’ tribute to freedom fighters
New Delhi: The decision to celebrate September 17 every year as 'Hyderabad Liberation Day' is a befitting tribute to freedom fighters and will ignite the "flame of patriotism" among youth, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday.
The central government had issued a notification on Tuesday on the commemoration. In a post on 'X', Shah said it is a historic day as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to celebrate September 17 every year as Hyderabad Liberation Day in honour of the martyrs of the Hyderabad liberation movement.
He said the decision is a befitting tribute to the freedom fighters and the martyrs who made the supreme sacrifice to remain a part of Bharat by liberating the Hyderabad region from the brutal Nizam rule. "I welcome Modi Ji's landmark decision, which will ignite the flame of patriotism among the youth and immortalise our icons of the freedom movement," he said. In the notification, the Union Home Ministry said Hyderabad did not get independence for 13 months after the Independence of India on August 15, 1947, and was under Nizam's rule. The region was liberated from Nizam's rule on September 17, 1948, after a police action namely 'Operation Polo'.
