Build memorial for Turrebaz Khan, Moulvi Allaud: BJP

Hyderabad, July 12 (UNI) BJP Andhra Pradesh President Bandaru Dattatreya today urged Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy to build a memorial for Turrebaz Khan and Moulvi Allauddin, who had laid down their lives during the first war of Independence in 1857, to commemorate 150 years of first freedom struggle.

In a letter to Dr Reddy, a copy of which released to the press here, Mr Dattatreya said, ''A pylon should be erected as a fitting memorial for both the martyrs near the entry gate of Osmania Medical college, where a rampart stood till recently as a vestige of post-mutiny fortification of the British residency.'' He said some land owners near the college had even offered a part of their land for erecting the pylon.

He appealed to the Chief Minister to consider the proposal.

''I would like to appeal you to consider the offer for erecting a pylon near the college and a foundation stone be laid for it on July 17, 2007, the day both the martyrs were killed by the combined forces of the Nizam and the British government,'' he added.

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