On the death anniversary of Bathini Mogilayya Goud, a freedom fighter who took up arms against the Nizam's autocratic rule and the feared Razakar militia to protect fellow patriots and hoist the Indian national flag with pride, Union Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy offered his heartfelt homage on Tuesday, 11 August 2026.

In his post, Kishan Reddy recalled Mogilayya Goud as a man who fought fearlessly — 'ఎలాంటి భయానికి లోనుకాకుండా' ('without yielding to any fear') — waging heroic battles against the Razakars to save the lives of fellow nationalists. The tribute salutes a regional hero whose name rarely makes national headlines but whose courage shaped Telangana's path into the Indian Union.

Who the Razakars Were — and Why Mogilayya Goud's Fight Mattered

The Razakars were a paramilitary force mobilised in the late 1940s to enforce the Nizam of Hyderabad's refusal to accede to independent India. Operating across what is today Telangana, they terrorised villages, suppressed dissent, and targeted anyone who flew the tricolour or organised resistance. Fighters like Mogilayya Goud were the ground-level answer to that terror — ordinary people who chose extraordinary defiance.

The standoff ended in September 1948 when Operation Polo, the Indian Army's military action, integrated Hyderabad State into the Indian Union and dismantled Nizam rule and the Razakar network. But the human cost of the years before that integration — borne by fighters and civilians alike — is a chapter Telangana's political memory returns to repeatedly.

BJP's Steady Project of Recovering Telangana's Unsung Heroes

BJP leaders in Telangana, with Kishan Reddy as the state party president, have made the commemoration of local anti-Nizam figures a consistent part of their political calendar. The effort is deliberate: to anchor the party's identity in regional history and to ensure that fighters from princely states receive the same national recognition accorded to those from British India.

With Hyderabad Liberation Day on 17 September approaching, tributes such as this one signal the beginning of a broader commemorative arc that typically builds through the month — state-level events, historical retrospectives, and public remembrances that remind Telangana voters of the sacrifices that preceded statehood.

Mogilayya Goud hoisted the national flag under threat of violence. That image — the tricolour raised in defiance — remains the sharpest symbol of what the anti-Nizam struggle stood for. Kishan Reddy's tribute ensures, for one more year, that the man who raised it is not forgotten.