Hyderabad, September 17: Ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh, main opposition Telugu Desam, BJP and other parties today celebrated the merger of the erstwhile Nizam state with the Indian Union.
Chief Minister K Rosaiah, state Congress president D Srinivas, Congress MPs and other party leaders offered homage to the country’s first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and other national leaders at Gandhi Bhavan — the state Congress headquarters — on the occasion.
It was Sardar Patel who made the Nizam agree to merge the state (Hyderabad) with Indian Union on September 17, 1948.
TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu unfurled the national flag at the party headquarters, while state BJP president G Kishan Reddy led the party’s celebrations.
–PTI