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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Special Correspondent

BJP trying to stoke communal passions in Telangana: Sitaram Yechury

Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury alleged that the BJP was distorting history by propagating a false narrative on Hyderabad’s merger with Indian Union on September 17 in 1948 to whip up communal passions and come to power in Telangana.

The RSS-BJP combine, which had no role in the Telangana Peasants Armed Struggle (1946-51), is misinterpreting the facts by projecting the historic Telangana peasant uprising as a ‘Hindu-Muslim conflict’ to stoke communal passions as part of its communal polarisation politics, he charged.

He was speaking at a public meeting held to mark the conclusion of the week-long celebrations of the Telangana Peasants’ Armed Struggle in Jangaon town on Saturday.

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