Nawab's family for sparing Errum Manzil palace in Hyderabad

The descendants of late Nawab Fakhrul Mulk Bhahadur has appealed to the Telangana government not to demolish the 19th-century Errum Manzil palace here, built by the eminent Hyderabad nobleman, for the proposed construction of a new legislature building. The Nawab Fakhrul Mulk Bahadur Legal Heirs Association, in a letter to Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, also sought heritage monument status to the palace.

The entire family members i.e legal heirs of Late Nawab Fakhrul Mulk Bahadur humbly beg to spare this magnificent structure the Errum Manzil Palace from demolition," it said. Instead, "kindly accord this landmark architecture as a heritage monument failing which an important milestone in the history of Hyderabad will be buried, Secretary of the association Nawab Shafath Ali Khan said in the June 20 letter.

The state government has recently proposed to build new legislature buildings in the Errum Manzil locality.