Overview
- A four-day photo exhibition at Parade Grounds in Secunderabad is open to the public through September 17, featuring nearly 50 panels on the liberation movement.
- A virtual exhibition titled ‘Liberation of Hyderabad Samsthan’ was launched by the Ministry of Culture in partnership with NCSM and the Salar Jung Museum.
- Governor Jishnu Dev Varma invoked Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s legacy of “unity in action, dignity in freedom” and urged citizens to honor the martyrs of 1948.
- G. Kishan Reddy credited Operation Polo with integrating Hyderabad into India and said the Centre will observe Liberation Day every year.
- BJP leaders Etala Rajender and N. Ramchander Rao joined the inauguration with senior PIB officials as speakers pressed Telangana to formalize the observance, noting Maharashtra and Karnataka already mark September 17.