Telangana Congress working president Mahesh Kumar Goud expressed surprise over the way Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was trying to take political mileage of the merger of Hyderabad into the Indian Union despite having no role in that struggle.
He said it was the Congress that helped Hyderabad gain Independence from the Nizam rule and its merger into the Indian Union with the efforts of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. He said the BJP has no role either in Hyderabad’s Independence or the formation of separate Telangana.
Speaking to reporters here, he said the BJP’s conspiracy was to distort history by claiming Sardar Patel’s legacy, who was a freedom fighter and a Congressman. The party that did not exist during the freedom struggle was now trying to gain political mileage from the historic event of the people of Telangana, he said.
