HYDERABAD: Ideological differences among the unions of Osmania University students came to the fore once again on Saturday with two OU Joint Action Committees (OUJACs) observing the September 17 in different ways. While one group celebrated the day as Telangana Liberation Day hoisting the national tricolour, the other termed the day as Black Day and hoisted black flags.
A group of students hoisted national tricolour and the flags of TSJAC near the Arts College and celebrated the event. The group, which is led by Pidamarthi Ravi and others, later went around nearly 10 colleges in the city and hoisted the national flag there.
Around the same time, students having allegiance to leftwing unions organised a rally and hoisted black flags near the Arts College. "The day is a Black Day. The Indian Army, which entered the region on September 13, massacred local people and Muslims for five days. This is a betrayal day," M Bhaskar, president of a splinter group of Telangana Students JAC, said. They later tried to march from the Arts College but were taken into preventive custody by the police.
Meanwhile, activists of All India Students Federation (AISF) burnt the posters of India's first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, under whose leadership the Indian armed forces marched into the then Hyderabad state.
Late in the evening, a meeting was held at the Arts College by another students group, Telangana Vidyarthi Vedika, to celebrate the Liberation Day.
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