WEREN’T INDIANS? CONDEMN CHAUVINISM!
It was shocking to learn
about the disgusting statement of one V. Prakash, a lawyer, a founder-member of
Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and perhaps a dissident now having formed the
Telangana Vimochana Samiti some time back, in an interview on TV5 (see the pic above) that Telanganites were never Indians before
1948, India committed aggression against the free country of Hyderabad in 1948
and annexed it though afterwards they [Hyderabadis] got reconciled to it. It is to be doubted whether this Prakash was a bit
mentally imbalanced by his regional chauvinism. Anyway, it needs severe
condemnation by all right thinking Indians, not just Telugus of the State. It
is true, no doubt, that the Nizam of Hyderabad declared independence of the
Hyderabad State in August 1947 by issuing a firman
announcing that “Hyderabad would remain independent and not join the Union of India but the Government of India rejected
the firman, terming it a "legalistic claim of doubtful validity". His minister Kasim Razvi
unfurled the Asafia Flag and declared that the flag was the emblem of the
suzerainty of God on earth” and all of us know that
this Kasim Razvi was a protagonist of Choudary Rahmat Ali’s Osmanistan [which in Razvi’s
conception included the Seemandhra districts too] proposal and the leader of the atrocious and hated razakars, fought tooth and nail by the valiant Telangana
people in their glorious struggle against Nizam monarchy and feudal oppression
and for a people’s state in Greater Andhra [Vishalandhraloa
Prajarajyam]. The Nizam could not
withstand the military assault [termed ‘Police Action’] of the Union, meekly surrendered and compromised
to protect his status and assets to a great extent by becoming a Raj Pramukh in
independent India. The corrupt and inept ruling party catered to his interests
instead of punishing the people’s enemies who were cruelly suppressing the
‘Join Indian Union Movement’ launched by the revered Swami Ramananda Tirtha and
militantly carried on by a vast majority of the people cutting across all
parties/sections. That’s why many, including TRS officially, call for the
marking of
17 September as Hyderabad Liberation Day, hence it sounds strange that an
important separatist leader should stoop to such a low, ignorant level and so calls
for this editorial condemnation. §§§
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