Hyderabad, Akhil Bharatiya Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh (ABRSM) in collaboration with the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, commemorating the Hyderabad Liberation Day has organized a talk “Hyderabad State Liberation Day: A Momentous Occasion-Reflections and the Way Forward,” in the University premises. The former Governor of Maharashtra and a former union minister, Shri. Ch. Vidyasagar Rao, Chief Guest, has appealed to the academic fraternity to digitize the history of Hyderabad Liberation movement. Further he emphasized, “It is important to record the heroic fight of the people of the erstwhile Hyderabad State against the oppressive Nizam rule and his private army, the Razakars.”

EFL-University Vice Chancellor, and Member, UGC, Shri. Prof. E. Suresh Kumar, the guest of honor, stated that as per the Government of India instructions, the EFLU will celebrate the Hyderabad Liberation Day celebrations by hoisting the National Flag in the campus on September 17.

“It is a proud moment for the people of the erstwhile Hyderabad State to officially celebrate the Liberation Day and pay our respects to martyrs who laid down their lives for the liberation,” he added.

Keynote speaker of the event, Shri. Raka Sudhakar called for building the proper narrative of the Hyderabad Liberation struggle from the victims’ perspective. He deplored that it was the perpetrators of crime, who are projecting themselves as the victims through a false narrative.

He appealed to the academics to carry out research into the great liberation struggle of the Hyderabad State and dispel the false narratives being propagated with malicious intent.

ABRSM representatives Shri.Prof. N Kishan, Shri. Dr. Yaddya and OU Teachers Association President Shri. Prof. Manohar and other Senior faculty members, research scholars, non-teaching staff from different universities of the city attended the talk.