All parties with the exception of MIM will celebrate the Hyderabad Liberation Day to mark the merger of erstwhile Hyderabad State with the Indian Union on Thursday.

This year’s celebrations synchronise with the Ganesh Chaturthi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday but the BJP has said that it will not organise the latter event in the absence of instructions from Central leadership.

In forefront

Therefore, the BJP which was in the forefront of the demand for official patronage to the celebrations will focus its attention on liberation day fete but it will be curtailed in view of Ganesh Utsav.

The BJP will organise programmes to hoist national flag at the party office and Gun Park near Assembly where Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers Hansraj Gangaram Ahir will participate. Incidentally, Mr. Ahir represents Chandrapur Parliamentary constituency in Maharashtra which was part of Nizam’s rule in Hyderabad State.

The TRS, Congress, Telugu Desam and Left parties will also organise celebrations in their respective offices.

Home Minister Nayani Narasimha Reddy will as usual be present at the party office. The Left parties will observe the occasion not from the view of merger of the State but the collapse of a feudal and autocratic rule of Nizam.

KCR criticised

The BJP has given a call to organisers of all Ganesh pandals to hoist the national flag before pooja. He criticised Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for going back on his earlier demand for official celebrations after assuming power.