The Government of India approved annual commemoration of "Hyderabad Liberation Day '' for the years 2022 to 2023, for the entire year.
The Ministry of Culture will organise the inaugural event.
The Center also plans to observe this day in all three states, even though Maharashtra and Karnataka already recognise it as Marathwada Liberation Day and Hyderabad-Karnataka Liberation Day, respectively.
It honours India’s conquest of Hyderabad in 1948 by Operation Polo.
The last Nizam of Hyderabad’s princely state, Osman Ali Khan Asaf Jah VII, was offered to join India in 1947 but he turned it down.
The operation was done under the guidance of Sardar Patel.