Hyderabad, April 5 -- Every April 4, a group of die-hard 1969 Telangana movement activists assemble at the Telangana martyr's memorial in Clock Tower Garden, Secunderabad late in the evening on Friday and pay homage to 369 agitators killed during the movement.

Like in the past, P. J. Suri, convener of the Telangana Martyrs Day, held the 56th memorial meeting and paid rich tributes to the Telanganites who sacrificed their lives for a separate Telangana.

Most of them remain unsung heroes since Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) turned Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who successfully led the T movement since 2001 and achieved Statehood in 2014 after a protracted unique agitation where 1100...