Veteran freedom fighter from Gulbarga, Mr. Shanker Rao paid rich tribute to the generosity of Mir Osman Ali Khan, Nizam of Hyderabad. He has especially come from Gulbarga to pay homage to the late Nizam. He came to Siasat office and met Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, Editor Siasat. He told that the people of Hyderabad Karnataka still remember the generosity, kindness and secular character of the late Nizam.
He condemned the campaign against the Nizam of Hyderabad by BJP and other communal minded organizations. He told that he himself witnessed the welfare schemes of the late Nizam for the poor people.
He told that he had struggled against the ‘Razakars’ from Hyderabad Karnataka region majority of the Razakarars from this region were the Hindus who had joined this group for looting the people.
He deplored that BJP is spreading venom among the people. He told that communal elements have entered Congress these days. He told that Nehru was against the partition of India but he couldn’t control it.
He mentioned that the day of merger of Hyderabad State in the Indian union is celebrated every year on 17 September in Hyderabad Karnataka Region but nobody says anything against the late Nizam of Hyderabad.
——Siasat News