BJP President Amit Shah salutes Sardar Patel for ‘Police Action’
Razakars massacred 200 people of the village for hoisting the Indian flag in 1948
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-09-18 00:36 GMT
Gorta (Bidar): Gorta, where BJP president Amit Shah laid the foundation stone for a Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel statue, is called the Jalianwala Bagh of South India.
It is in this place that the Razakars operating in the erstwhile Hyderabad state massacred some 200 people of the village for hoisting the Indian flag on May 9, 1948.
Mr Shah said, “If today this old Nizam state is part of united India, the credit has to go to Sardar Patel.”
“On this day of liberation from the old Nizam state, I pay my rich tributes to him on behalf of all countrymen,” Mr Shah said while referring to the ‘Police Action’ on this day in 1949, after which Hyderabad was integrated with India.
Mr Shah also remembered the martyrs of the Gorta massacre. The memorial is in honour of the villagers who were massacred by the Razakars.