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The Hyderabad-Karnataka (H-K) Liberation Day celebration this year has its own significance for Gulbarga. For the first time since the beginning of the celebrations, the Chandrashekhar Patil Stadium in the district will host the event.
Chandrashekhar Patil Stadium usually sees the unfurling of the national flag on Independence and Republic Days every year. However, on Monday Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar would unfurl the national flag at the stadium at 9 am. For the past six years, the Chief Ministers participate in the celebrations in Gulbarga.
Other than the Gulbarga connection, this year’s liberation day celebration is special for Karnataka otherwise too. It was during the Janata Dal (Secular) patriarch H D Deve Gowda’s tenure as the chief minister in 1995 that the then Urban Development Minister Vaijinath Patil visited Telangana in Andhra Pradesh, and Vidarbha in Maharashtra, and studied the development of those regions.
Patil later submitted a report to Deve Gowda recommending amendment to Article 371 of the Constitution for H-K region.
From 1995 to 2012 several agitations were staged by various organisations and the state government submitted memoranda to the Centre for amendment to Article 371.
But it was only in September this year that the Central government gave a “bonus” to the people of the region by tabling the Bill to amend Article 371 of the Constitution (J model), which is the incorporation of both the Telangana and Vidarbha models.
The Centre and the state governments hope that the Bill would get the Parliament’s approval during its winter session this year.
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