Maharashtra: 75 lectures to be held in Latur as part of Marathwada Liberation Day celebrations

In Latur, Maharashtra, schools and institutions will host 75 lectures detailing the valour  who took part in the Marathwada freedom movement.

These lectures, under the theme Shouryagatha Marathwada Muktisangramachi, is a joint initiative of the district information office, education department and Babasaheb Paranjape Foundation and will be inaugurated on Friday by Collector Varsha Thakur-Ghuge, he said.

Marathwada area of Maharashtra was under the oppressive rule of the Nizam of Hyderabad at the time of India's Independence. Farmers and common citizens rose in the revolt and defeated the Razakar militia of the Nizam and succeeded in merging Marathwada with India on September 17, 1948.