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Responding to questions, Kavitha, the daughter of Responding to questions, Kavitha, the daughter ofChief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, said: "The very survivalof BJP…extreme right-wing party it’s divisive politics…that’s their only motto. They always call it a liberation daybecause it (Telangana) has been out of Muslim rule. We willnot accept that." "We always said our Nizam was certainly very good inlot of aspects and one or two things go wrong in everybody’srule. Babri Masjid (demolition) went wrong when Kalyan Singhwas the Chief Minister. You can’t dig up history and try todivide the society now. BJP has always been taking that view,and TRS is always been opposing it right from movement days. "We say it’s a merger day, not a liberation day. It’snot a day to bring any differences between Hindu and Muslimcommunities in Telangana society," she said. BJP Telangana chief K Laxman recently said the partynational president Amit Shah would address a public meeting inWarangal district of the state on September 17 as part of the’Hyderabad Liberation Day’ being celebrated by the state unit. "During the separate statehood movement, TelanganaChief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, had said ‘HyderabadLiberation Day’ will be celebrated in a grand manner on thelines of it being celebrated in some districts of Karnatakaand Maharashtra," Laxman had said. "But due to pressure from MIM (of Asaduddin Owaisi),this (TRS) government is not coming forward to celebrate it,"he alleged. "Hence, the BJP has decided to celebrate ‘HyderabadLiberation Day’ on September 17 in nook and corner of thestate," he had said. The Hyderabad state, which was under the Nizam’s rule,merged with the Indian Union on September 17, 1948, followinga "police action". Prime Minister Narendra Modi had, during his visit toHyderabad on August 7, called upon BJP functionaries to takeup the ‘Tiranga Yatra’ on motorbikes from August 15 toSeptember 17 across the state. PTI RS GK SMNPTP