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State Funeral for the 8th Nizam AIMIM – TRS (BRS) Alliance
Dt: 23/1/23
State Funeral for the 8th Nizam
AIMIM – TRS (BRS) Alliance
Dr T H Chowdary*
The honour of state funeral bestowed on Prince Mukharam Jah, the VIII Nizam is most undeserved and is indicative of the traditional collusion between the Muslim rulers of Hyderabad and the currently ruling social class in Telangana from the 14th century. Nizam’s rule was hated by the native Hindus as it was exploitative and suppressive of Hindus under the hegemony of foreign origin Muslims who coopted the local converts as junior partners. The 7th Nizam wanted to be an independent sovereign Muslim King outside the Indian Union when India became free in Aug 1947. Military action had to be taken in Sept 1948 by the Indian Union to liberate the Hyderabad state’s people from the Nizams rule backed by the fascist Razakars of Majlis Ittehadul Muslameen (MIM) under the leadership of Kasim Razvi. It was the magnanimity of Sardar Patel the Home Minister of India that retained the 7th Nizam Osman Ali Khan as Raja Pramukh of the liberated and integrated state of Hyderabad .
2. The state funeral accorded by the present rulers of Telangana to the scion of the foreign origin ruling dynasty is indicative of the resurgence of the collaboration of the ruling social class with Muslims as during the Nizam’s rule. Prince Mukharam Jah was dissolute; he was involved in disputes with his four non-Indian wives. He had scant love for India. He lived his last years not in native India but in Turkiye, his mother’s country. The leadership of the Bharata Rashtriya Samithi ( BRS) seems to cherish its undeclared , but increasingly evident comraderie with the Kasim Razviist AIMIM .
3. It is apt to recall an episode involving the late Salahuddin Owaisi, the Chief of MIM , the father of Sri Asaduddin Owiasi, MP and Sri P V Narasimha Rao when he was the Chief Minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh in 1972 . Sri Salahuddin Owaisi gave a long memorandum listing many demands to Chief Minister, Sri P V.Narasimha Rao . The CM went through it several times and then remarked, “ Salahuddin ji ! You are such a great leader and a scholar . But you have made one serious omission in the demands that you have listed”. Sri Owaisi was taken aback and asked Narasimha Rao ji as to what was the omission . Narasimha Rao replied: “you have not included the demand for the restoration of the Nizam’s rule”! There is undeclared but widely believed alliance between the AIMIM and TRS ( now BRS).
4. Now it appears that it is the current AIMIM ‘s chief Sri Asaduddin Owaisi who is the strategist for the BRS and KCR and his party and government. More interesting things will be unfolding after the recently held Khammam convention of the BRS on 18th Jan 2023 which was attended by Modi’s determined foes - Com. Pinarayi Vijayan of Kerala , Aravind Kejriwal of Delhi and Bhagwant Singh Mann, CM of Punjab besides Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav and CPI’s National Secretary D Raja.
5. It was Sri Asaduddin Owaisi who advised Sri K. Chandrasekhara Rao and his party to observe 17th Sept not as liberation of Hyderabad Day but as National Integration Day . Sri Owaisi stated that the Central government should be a weak one , formed by an alliance of regional parties. Sri KCR collected leaders of some regional parties at the Khammam mega conference.
6. The Nizam’s rule had been an unmitigated calamity for Hindus, especially during Kasim Razvi’s Presidency of the MIM. Razvi roared and ranted that quite soon the Asaf Jahi flag would flutter on the Red Fort in Delhi. The poor man did not realize his dream . But it appears that Sri KCR will fulfil Razvi’s dream by making his regional party the TRS into the all India Bharat Rashtra Samithi ( BRS) and flying his flag in Delhi’s Red Fort. Sri Asaduddin may also realise his wish of a weak central government under the leadership of his ally the BRS.
7. The non-celebration of the 74th Republic Day in the traditional way due to the BRS government’s non-involvement is ominous and reminds us of the 7th Nizam, Osman Ali Khan’s declaration of 6 June 1947, to be an independent king outside the Indian Union. May the BRS not be the Trojan Horse of AIMIM. ( 718 words)
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