రజాకార్లకు వ్యతిరేకంగా తెలంగాణా పల్లెల్లో జరిగిన సాయుధ పోరాటాలను సీమంధ్ర పాలకులు నిర్లక్షం చేసిండ్రు అని చెప్పినప్పుడు బాధపడ్డం, మరి ఇప్పుడు తెలంగాణా పాలకులు కావలసినంత గుర్తింపు ఇవ్వడం లేదు ఎందుకు, అదే వీరోచిత పోరాటాలను మెయిన్ పేపర్ లో రావాల్సిన వార్త, జిల్లా పత్రిక కు మాత్రేమే ఎందుకు పరిమితం చేసిండ్రు?
Before formation of Telangana state, most of its leadership and supporting media accused Seemandhra government and its media outlets for not covering or giving deserved importance to the brave Telangana villagers (Hindus) who challenged and kicked the Nizam’s private army, religious (Islamic) fanatics called as Razakaars (former MIM Party cadre).
But why the same people are belittling the Telangana fight against Razaakars.
Breif history of today’s importance:
Before Nizam surrendered to Government of India, almost every village in Telangana had formed their own military force to counter attack Razaakars, a religious fanatic army operating under the name of MIM ( Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen), who used to attack and loot villages and rape Hindu women.
During those days, Bairanpally, a village located 102 kms away from Hyderabad, in Warangal district, stood against the barbarism of Razaakars and challenged them. Villagers were successful for two times in preventing razaakars entry into their village and killed some of them too.
Following this, the Nizam Military and Razakars were desperate to take revenge on this particular village Bairanpally. So they jointly planned and attacked for the 3rd time with big master plans. On August 27, 1948 at early morning around 3 AM nearly a unit of 1200 Razakars attacked with then advanced military equipment like sten-guns, machine guns, 303 rifles.
Village rakshaks sensed this attack and wakeup everyone from a tall structure known as “Burju”. Every male and female participated in this battle. After four to five hours of gun fight exchange, villagers could not resist the Razakars entry into village.
Once they occupied the streets they ordered the villagers to stand in line including men and women and opened fire killing 90 people. Later on the same day Razakars attacked nearby Kootigallu Village and killed more than 50 people on that night.
This is only one incident, there are lot of incidents and brave stories across the Telangana villages who stood and challenged Razaakars.
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But amazingly such kind of stories are not finding space in the main editions of Telangana news media in these days, why they are being limited to district editions?
Below is the image from Namasthe Telangana paper in its Warangal district edition.
