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Hyderabad Liberation Day
September 8 , 2022
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- 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.
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