September 17 is celebrated as Hyderabad Liberation Day to commemorate the end of Nizam s rule and the annexation of Hyderabad into the Union of India. The event is attended by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and is part of the Narendra Modi government s initiatives.
On September 17, 1948, the then Hyderabad state, which was under the rule of the Nizams, was annexed into the Union of India following military action, initiated by the then Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel