Telangana celebrates National Integration Day
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Hyderabad: Telangana celebrated National Integration Day on Sunday to mark the anniversary of erstwhile Hyderabad State’s merger with the Indian Union. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao led the official celebrations by hoisting the national flag at the main function held at Public Gardens in Hyderabad.
He also paid tributes to the martyrs at Telangana Martyrs’ Memorial. For a second consecutive year, the state government celebrated September 17 as National Integration Day. It was on this day in 1948 that then Hyderabad State, comprising Telangana and parts of present day Karnataka and Maharashtra, merged with the Indian Union following India’s military operation codenamed ‘Operation Polo’.
Ministers and officials participated in the National Integration Day celebrations held in all districts. Hoisting of the national flag, police parade and paying of tributes to the martyrs marked the day. Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari hoisted the national flag at Telangana State Secretariat. Similar programmes were also held in the Assembly, Legislative Council and at all the government offices.
For the second year in a row, the Union Culture Ministry organised official celebrations in the Telangana capital.
