Help spread the truth about Telangana region of India. Since 1956, when Andhra and Telangana merged, Telangana has gotten the short end of the stick in terms of natural resources, funding and representation in government. Though two major rivers have their sources in Telangana, irrigation projects divert the precious water to other areas. The feelings have often spilled over into violence, and in 1969, 400 people died in Telangana-related violence.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Re: Telangana ghosha


There are many reasons for separate Telangana demand: There are 10 districts in Telangana, 9 in Andhra Pradesh and 4 in Rayalaseema. Out of these, 7 districts in Telangana, 3 in Andhra Pradesh and 1 in Rayalaseema are considered severely backward districts which means 70% of districts in Telangana are backward while in Andhra it is 35% and in Rayalaseema it is 25%. Apart from these there are some areas in all parts of the state which are also backward. 45% of the state income comes from Telangana region. When it comes to utilisation of funds, the share of Telangana is only 28%. Normally canals are dug to supply water to the crops from rivers for cultivation. The amount of land cultivated through canals in just Guntur district is more than the land cultivated with canals in entire Telangana region. Nagarjuna sagar dam is built in Nalgonda district which is in Telangana but majority of the water from the dam is used for Krishna and Guntur district. The original dam was supposed to be built much ahead of its present location but the location was changed so that it falls in the Telangana region. Due to the construction of the dam several hectares of lime stone mines vanished as part of the dam back waters. Everyone knows that lime stone is used for producing cement. Even the natural resources were not allowed to remain. Fluorinated water problem is only in Nalgonda district which has not been resolved since decades. Two major rivers Krishna and Tungabhadra enter the state of AP in the district of Mahaboobnagar(the biggest district in Telangana) but the district always remains the worst draught hit area along with Anantapur because there is no project and process with which the water can be utilised. The plans for utilisation has been pending for decades. RDS (Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme) is built in Mahaboobnagar to provide water to 85000 hectares of land in the district. The leaders of Rayalaseema blasted the gates of RDS and water is supplied to KC (Kurnool-Cudapah) canal while the remaining water, if any, is supplied to the lands in Mahaboobnagar. 3 TMC of water from Gandipet is sufficient to supply drinking water to our city. Every year 1700 TMC of water is wasted and flows into Bay of Bengal from river Godavari. Starting from Nizambad to Bay of Bengal there is no project allowed to build on Godavari. If it is built leaders in Godavari districts fear that the fertile lands in the area may fall short of water. If the Godavari water is utilised properly, there will be no scarcity for foodgrains in our state. In Telangana regions, only a few areas cultivate one crop a year and very rarely two crops a year while most of the land doesn't even cultivate single crop. In both the Godavari districts-- Krishna and Guntur--two crops a year is common and there are times where even 3 crops a year are cultivated. The only reason is WATER. Government issues G.O.'s for implementing its decisions. G.O number 610 is the longest non implemented G.O in the history of AP. The G.O was issued in 1986 by NTR who was the then CM. The G.O is about the share of Government jobs in Telangana region. 33% of the population in Mahaboobnagar district have left the district for livelihood to different parts of the state due to drought and majority of them are working as daily labourers. No other district has so many people who fled the home town due to lack of livelihood. There are 25 plus government degree colleges in Krishna, Kadapa and Guntur districts while there is not even a single government degree college in Ranga Reddy district. Dairy development corporation of AP purchases milk from farmers across the state for distribution. For the same milk, in Andhra, the government pays Rs. 24 to the farmers and in Telangana they pay Rs. 22 per litre. In between 2005-2008 government sold lands worth Rs. 20000 crores in and around Hyderabad which was utilised to build projects in Rayalaseema and Andhra. Not even a single project was completed in Telangana in the last 5 years. Not just Telangana but areas of Northern Andhra, Prakasham and parts of Rayalaseema are still backward. The state needs to progress as a unit. People are suffering across the state and they need a solution. Nobody wants a split in the state but when the people of one region are constantly humiliated and denied their share, such demands keep coming. Let us show maturity in understanding social problems keeping aside the sentiments.

By,
Shiva.
Jai Telangana.

Telangana ghosha

It's a full circle now and the Telangana issue has come to the starting point again. The people of Telangana are fed up of by the games played by the political parties at the state and the Centre. We have had enough of it for 50 years now. Nobody bothers about the sacrifices made by the innocent students who literally burnt themselves to convey their helplessness. They cared least for their lives and burnt themselves just to convey their word to the rulers.
The Central government wants to force the Telangana people to live in peace with the Andhra. The Centre feels a separate state should be formed as liked by the Andhra people rather than people of the region. It wants to take the concent of all once again. Earlier they all agreed and based on that the Central government gave a decision on Telangana. People were happy here and celebrated the announcement. But this celebration was not liked by the Andhras. Even before nothing happened on the issue they were not digesting our happiness, somehow they wanted to make us sad, they wanted us to continue burning, they wanted us to make villians. They portrayed the Telangana students as rowdies. They still want us to burn and end the lives of innocent students. They want us to be unemployed and study in the universities till 30 and 40 years. But we won't get any jobs. Our students are poor, they don't have money to buy books or pay fee for coaching as the Andhra students do. We don't have good paddy fields at our homes back in our districts as the Andhra people have. We don't have water facilities as the Andhra people have. Obviously we are living in hostels studying till 30s and 40s but still no jobs. All top jobs are bagged by Andhra students. We are left where we were 50 years ago. We don't have a good project like Nagarjunasagar which can feed water to our entire Telangana as it is doing for Andhra. We do not have a good project like Srisailam to feed water to our uplands as it is doing downwards in the Andhra region. How do one think that our parents can support us economically when they themselves are struggling to feed themselves?
Now when our stomachs are burning, the Andhras want us to burn and continue to burn. They make films and sell it to our Telangana people and earn money but spend nothing in return to at least the welfare of their fans.
Till now all CMs were from Andhra and Rayalaseema. They developed their regions but who will think about the welfare of the Talangana region? But still they want to dominate us politically, economically, socially. Had they done some good to our people at least 10 per cent we would have not seen the day today.
Today neither the state government nor the Central government wants to hear the Telangana people. They want the consent of each and every Andhra person to give us our state which would never happen... that means they would never want to give Telangana. They want to accept some packages for our development which would be supervised and governed by the Andhra people and politicians. The Central government wants us to live under the Andhra people's rule. I though ours is democratic government. I thought the people concerns are heard. It's been 10 years now TRS was formed. But no government wants to heed the problems of people who elected the TRS representatives.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Week-long fast is secret of Lagadapati's energy

(From http://www.dc-epaper.com/DC/DCH/2009/12/22/ArticleHtmls/22_12_2009_001_012.shtml?Mode=0)

 

Showing unbelievable stamina for a 55year-old who has "fasted" for seven days, the Vijayawada Congress MP, Mr Lagadapati Rajagopal, suddenly turned up at the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences here in an autorickshaw after an overnight journey from Vijayawada, dashed into the hospital, ran along the corridors into the Acute Medical Care unit and grabbed a bed -- with television cameras in tow.

Within seconds, the MP was lying on the bed, appearing exhausted and lost to the world. A team of doctors and nurses immediately surrounded him, almost as if they were waiting for the "guest".

According to reports, the MP, who escaped from a Vijayawada hospital late on Sunday night, travelled by his car till Khammam, took an RTC bus to Hyderabad and took the autorickshaw to reach Nims. This could not be verified, and it is suspected that he travelled in an outdoor broadcasting van of a television channel.

All this hectic activity from a man whose fast entered its seventh day on Monday left many amazed. Mr Rajagopal instead looked more energetic than before.

The principal secretary, health, Mr J. Satyanarayana, said, "Mr Rajagopal is fine and doing well." Some senior doctors expressed doubts over Mr Rajagopal's incredible physical condition. He was later shifted to room No.
228 in Millennium block.

Asked if Mr Rajagopal's feat was possible, Dr P.Praveen, general surgeon of Gandhi Hospital, told this newspaper, "It is highly impossible for a man who is fasting for a week to run like this. It was reported that his sugar levels were rising which is uncommon for a patient who is fasting."

"If a person is fasting, the ketone levels will rise.Loss of sodium and potassium will lead to muscle cramps which will make it difficult to even move," the doctor said. "Even if saline is given it would help in maintaining basic metabolism and will not give any calories."

Doctors at the Vijayawada Government Hospital said Mr Rajagopal was on saline for two days forcibly, and differed with the opinion on his agility.

The Vijayawada hospitals superintendent, Dr P. Rambabu said, "Mr Rajagopal is diabetic. We had suggested that he be shifted to a hospital with facilities for cardiac monitoring as we suspecting irregular heart beat." Dr Rambabu said, "He was put on dextrose intravenous. He didn't take any liquid or solid food. It is possible for a man who is on saline to have the physical activity. Even the yoga trainer regularly visited Mr Rajagopal and he did yoga including pranamayam." The doctor, however, added: "His physical fitness is amazing."

The MP's followers said that as a sportsman and chief of the AP Olympic Association, Mr Rajagopal was very fit and in no way could be compared with the TRS chief, Mr K.
Chandrasekhar Rao.

Mr Rajagopal began his fast unto death at Vijayawada on December 16, after he was arrested twice in Hyderabad and sent back.

The Congress MP was shifted to the Vijayawada General Hospital, where he complained bitterly against the conditions. As he refused treatment, the police secured an order from a Vijayawada court and forcibly gave him saline and dextrose.

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Jai Telengana

Currently many people in Andhra and Rayalaseema have launched protests, fasts, strikes and riots under the banner called 'Samaikya Andhra' to oppose the formation of separate Telangana.

So what is Samaikya Andhra?

Samaikya Andhra can roughly be translated as 'United Andhra'. The hilarious but sad thing about all this is that Telangana people don't even identify with the word 'Andhra'. Telangana person has always considered Andhra, along with Tamil, Oriya, Marathi to refer to an outsider. They have identified with Andhra brothers under the identity Telugu but not 'Andhra'.


So, when students and politicians of Andhra keep repeating 'Samaikya Andhra', people of Telangana are not even thinking that they are involved in it. Many of them are assuming that people of Andhra are bent on uniting just the Andhra and Rayalaseema regions of the state. Telangana people are NOT thinking that Samaikya Andhra even includes Telangana.

The politicians of Andhra have decided to take a bus rally on Samaikya Andhra – starting from Srikakulam to Chittoor- touching various parts of Andhra region completely bypassing entire Telangana. You would think that if they are referring to united Andhra Pradesh that includes Telangana, then they would take their bus through Telangana as well. That's not how Andhra people think of Samaikya Andhra. They will tour Andhra region but urge Telangana not to separate. It's all confusing.

And when they say they are going to fight for Samaikya Andhra, you would think that there would be overtures to Telangana people asking them to stay back or something like that. They don't even address Telangana people. They address themselves and say, we will make sure Telangana doesn't break away. They don't refer to people of Telangana in their speeches. Instead they only criticize and ridicule TRS/KCR as if he comprises entire Telangana.

So there is no request, no appeal, or no friendly gesture from Andhras to Telangana people in this episode. It's all about coercion, threats, ridicule and show of power and majority.

Telangana people don't even know if they should respond to this. Why are they referring to themselves in Samaikya Andhra? Where do we feature? May be, we don't feature at all.

The current situation can be made easy to understand through two people in relationship.

A and B in relationship

B wants to separate. A says, no, I won't let you go.

B says, sorry, we tried for 50 years to make this work. I want to go my own way. A says, no, I won't let you go.

B says, you are not getting it. I feel suffocated in this relationship. You have not been very accommodating. You have never respected me. You exploited me all through the relationship. A says, no, I won't let you go.

B says, don't you think you should say few things like, 'Let's give it another chance. Let me address your issues' if you want me to stay with you. A says, I would die, but I won't let you go.

B says, this is turning ridiculous. I am telling you I want to move out because you didn't treat me good. Instead of trying to make it work you are just forcing yourself onto me. Aren't you being little selfish? A says, we should be together because we both speak the same language.

B says, screw the language. I am not going to sacrifice another minute to keep this farcical relationship going on. I am moving out. A says, I will die but I won't let you go. I will protest and tell our parents.

B says, screw the parents. I am done. You can't keep blackmailing me like this. You have always exploited me. A says, I will protest harder. I will burn things down. I will riot. But I will keep you with me.

B says, don't you think this is the right time for you to say, 'Sorry, I will make amends. I will change. I will protect your interests. Please stay'. A says, you are taking away the mansion you brought in the dowry. I took care of it all this while. I won't let you have it.

B says, Aha, so this is all about the dowry I brought into the marriage. A says, I invested in painting it.

B says, screw the paint. The entire mansion belongs to me. The last sixty years have been a hell for me. That paint you put on doesn't even compensate for the pain I have gone through. A says, if I can't have it, I won't let you have it.

B says, Get lost, you freak. I cannot believe I lived with you for all these sixty years. I am moving out. Bye, Bye. A says, let's stay together. We both speak the same language. What will other people think if we break up like this?

B says. Bye. Now, I don't even know how we stayed together all these years. A says, I will not give you divorce. Let's see what you will do.

Samaikya Andhra has nothing to do with Telangana people

Andhra people don't want to let Telangana go no matter what. They don't even want to talk to Telangana people to understand their concerns. Not a single Andhra politician has suggested that we should talk and work things out. They want Samaikya Andhra which concerns only the interest of Andhra people.

There is no place for Telangana in their grand designs as an equal partner, but yes, they do want Telangana as a region, to satisfy their pride that there is one big family of Telugu people and of course also because of its city called Hyderabad. Not a single Andhra leader says that they will implement the agreements which Telangana people were promised time and again in the last sixty years. Nobody says they will pass the GOs immediately as a goodwill gesture to accommodate Telangana brothers. Not a single Andhra politician talks about reward of water, power and incentives to alleviate the serious concerns of Telangana people.

Instead they talk about Hyderabad and how they are going to lose it to Telangana people. They talk about KCR/TRS and how corrupt these leaders are. Telangana people are standing and watching and realizing this:

'Man, did we live with these self-centered Andhra people all this while? While asking us to stay, they not requesting us, they are not appealing to us. Instead they are forcing and coercing us. They are threatening us. Is this the kind of respect they carry for us? Why did it take 60 years to realize how bad our marriage was?'


Telangana: Of broken promises and Congress's catch-22

From http://news.rediff.com/column/2009/dec/16/andhra-crisis-telangana-a-saga-of-broken-promises.htm

December 16, 2009 13:36 IST

 

In the ongoing Telangana saga, three major aspects have to be acknowledged.

One, the Congress party has got a lot more egg on its face than it had bargained for, and lost its credibility in Telangana as well as the other two regions in the state -- coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema.

Two, political leaders from the rest of Andhra Pradesh are fighting to retain their control over Hyderabad, the country's sixth largest city and the state's capital. On the flip side, the protagonists of Telangana are striving for a separate state of which Hyderabad is an organic part; it cannot be taken away or even shared for logistical reasons.

Three, the backtracking of all political parties, except the muted support by the Bharatiya Janata Party [ Images ], for the promised statehood, is a great democratic betrayal. The commitments made were apparently pure rhetoric and insincere. They were promises made during the elections and then forgotten.

Instead, the parties changed their stand and have virtually split the state cabinet and the geographical regions, because the Congress unilaterally moved towards statehood. The state government, its own allies at the Centre or the people of Andhra were never consulted. A chief minister technically leads a state, but he may not always speak for his own government, as proved by Andhra CM K Rosaiah's meeting with Sonia Gandhi [ Images ]. Everyone is now facing a credibility crisis.

In Telangana statehood's 40-year-old saga, so much in such a short spell of time has never happened before. This has the potential to reorder the course of politics on a rollercoaster for the entire state if statehood for Telangana is now denied.

Let us deal with the first issue first.

There was no call for Sonia Gandhi to summon the government's key ministers, confabulate and announce late in the night that Telangana was being conceded and the Andhra Pradesh legislature will start the processes. There were no consultations with other stakeholders in that state and the unilateral announcement was made because the party feared chaos if anything happened to the fasting K Chandrasekhar Rao.

This has put the Telangana issue in a Catch-22 situation. The Congress is damned if it carries forward the plan because the revolt in the party is far too strong to be contained easily. The voters are not likely to be subdued even if the state's party leaders are browbeaten into submission.

Betrayal

The Congress is damned if it does not carry forward the plan because Telangana, which had set its heart on statehood some 40 years ago, will never ever again trust the party because of this grand betrayal.

Unless of course all that transpired in New Delhi [ Images ] was a grand plan of offering the state but not really intending to hand it over. The logic is as follows: Telangana can be told tomorrow that since the AP legislature could not adopt the resolution agreeing to the proposed statehood, it was being denied the same. The onus will be technically on the protagonists of Telangana, but the numbers are tilted against them. For the 119 legislators from that region, there are as many as 175 members of the legislative assembly from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema.

Congress elders in Delhi are wily, hardnosed; they know how to posture and it is remotely likely that such a plan may have been crafted but never articulated openly. To do so openly would have been rubbing salt into the wounds of Telangana.

Let us move to the second issue.

Hyderabad sought

Why is it that Andhra and Rayalaseema leaders are screaming against the intent to hand over statehood to Telangana? None of them have yet spoken of the strong Telugu linguistic bond of the people which requires them all to remain united. That is because it is not an issue at all. The issue is wealth. That is, the wealth that these leaders and their cohorts have accumulated after investing in Hyderabad. This again is something that they cannot speak of openly so other proxy arguments are trotted out.

Hyderabad has grown, in terms of population and geography, to house in its entire metropolitan region some 6.3 million souls, having registered a decadal growth of 29 per cent. It has grown substantially economically too, the growth being in the range of over seven per cent in 2006-07. It has had the wealth of the other regions poured as investment here and the sticky fingers of the politicians cannot easily be pulled out from that pie. The investor-politician nexus is very strong, and even visible, in Hyderabad.

Natural to Telangana

To the Telangana people, Hyderabad is a natural capital and it would be unnatural for the rest of Andhra to access it as a shared capital, having to traverse at least 200 km from the borders of the 10-district strong Telangana. In fact, to consider it to be a potential Union territory to be shared by two states is laughable and such an idea should be rejected straightaway.

Of course, Hyderabad is now on a momentum which would be not easy to reverse, but should a separate state be formed as promised, its pace can slow down. A substantial amount of wealth will move to the new capital, which will be around the coastal region's two major cities, Guntur and Vijayawada.

That does not mean that with the wealth, people from the other Andhras will also migrate back to their earlier places, because those who have come with their wealth, and hopes, have developed strong roots in Hyderabad. The city would not be depopulated voluntarily. However, should the animus grow between the protagonists and the antagonists of the Telangana cause, there could possibly be scary developments, forcing some population shift.

Backwardness

The real story of backwardness is not in Hyderabad, which apparently has the highest gross domestic product in all of Andhra Pradesh. From all accounts, in terms of real investment, the remaining nine districts of Telangana are lagging behind. Hyderabad could be the best destination but that does not make the rest of the region as prosperous as the capital city.

The stories you would hear from the rest of the Telangana districts are the ones that have to be taken note of when judging the entire region -- lower educational attainments, lower educational facilities compared to the rest, poorer employment potential, which make the demand for a state strident.

The third issue is potentially explosive because if the backtracking is permanent, it can create social ripples and lead to problems, given the large population of people from the other two regions in AP.

The promises of yore about bringing Telangana on par with the rest of Andhra Pradesh have been on paper and the intent not honourably translated into reality on the ground. And those who prevented that from happening comprise the very section which is seeking to prevent, with unprecedented defiance, the creation of a new state. All political parties, except the BJP and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, have gone back on their poll assurances of Telangana's statehood.

In this saga of broken promises, the anxieties and vehemence of Telangana is understandable. But the last word has not yet been said.

Mahesh Vijapurkar is a Thane-based senior journalist and commentator

 

 

 

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Andhra Artists and their Politics

(From: sreekanth bezzanki )

I hear a strange comment these days that artists don't have a region and movies shouldn't be affected because of the on going turmoil in our state. Let's dig a little deep and see if that statement holds any value.

 

In my view there is thin line (or may be none) between movie artists and politics. You name any prominent film personality and you will find that he/she has a deep nexus with political fraternity. The involvement of Film industry biggies in politics is unquestionable. I find it laughable when these folks state that film artists don't have a region….Really?????.... Let's see… the very statement is hypocritical as I find 99% (1% reserved for Nitin, Venu madhav etc.,) of the movie stars belonging to Andhra and have strong affiliation towards their region. So the premise "Movie stars do not belong to a particular Region" is utterly false and baseless.

 

Having said that, I don't mind if these movie stars mind their business. However, that's not the case most of the movie stars support one or the other political outfit which is against giving Telangana. All these selfish movie stars don't have the best interest of the people of Telangana Region in their mind. So why should we care about them???

 

Even after film personalities like Chiranjeevi, Mohan babu, Ram Charan, Allu Arjun, Jr. NTR, Nagarjuna etc., openly embracing united Andhra stand why shouldn't the movies of these individuals be banned in Telangana??????

 

I also hear a strange comment from brainless (instead, let's call him cunning) Chiranjeevi that smaller states are not viable and would be a disaster. Just for a minute lets assume what he is saying is true in that case didn't he realize that when he was documenting his manifesto in support of Telangana state formation. How did he realize the non viability of the state in these couple of days???? One can only guess what could have happened.

 

The only intention of this greedy politician is to amass as much as he can. I don't understand will he carry all of his fortunes to grave????....He with a beautiful smile states that people of Telangana are innocent. I would like to say that we would be fools if we don't stop entertaining such idiots. Let's ban all the movies of his and his extended family. Their movies are to be screened only if he and his family apologize to the whole Telangana community and stand in support of Separate Telangana.

 

Let's now talk about saintly Mohan Babu. He says that all of us should stand united and on the other hand he is adding fuel to the already sensitive and volatile communal scenario by throwing a challenge on Telangana agitators to attack his assets when he is in Hyderabad….He is eligible to be a big time rowdy nothing more than that.

 

Of all the comments he made there was particularly one which was striking where he stated that he doesn't mind losses to Movie Saleem because of the agitation. I couldn't stop laughing on that statement….as a matter of fact Saleem has been unanimously declared the worst movie of the millennium and people who have watched the movie are still under going psychiatric treatment. All his comments are to give cheap publicity to his movie.

 

I would like to conclude that artists are also human beings and there are bunch of selfish individuals whose intentions are clear that they don't want Hyderabad to be part of Telangana. Hence, banning their movies is absolutely justifiable. Let's stand united and ban these people without any second thoughts.

 




Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Telangana and Rayalaseema -- Likely neighbours but unlikely partners

From article reported at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Telangana-Rayalaseema-have-a-common-cause-Analysts/articleshow/5338375.cms:

“Telangana, Rayalaseema have a common cause : Analysts “

Roli Srivastava, TNN 15 December 2009, 05:22am IST

 

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With the logic of being sidelined by Andhra region, forming the backbone of a Telangana-Rayalaseema merger, why can it never become a reality? "Rayalaseema leaders who have played a prominent role in state politics in the last 40 years have made this possibility very difficult,'' says social scientist C Ramachandraiah, who points out that these leaders never aligned with those from Telangana. Worse, they only alienated them.

"The state's first chief minister N Sanjeeva Reddy was a signatory to the Gentleman's Agreement which had a provision that if the CM was from one region a deputy CM would be appointed from another region,'' he says, adding that while Reddy, who hailed from Rayalaseema became CM, he showed no interest in appointing a deputy CM from Telangana. "A deputy CM from Telangana would be an irritating sixth finger,'' Reddy had reportedly said.

The perceptions created by these leaders is the biggest hurdle. The chief ministers of the last decade, TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu and late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, both hailing from Rayalaseema, only widened the gap between the two regions, with those from Telangana ruing the diversion of funds by YSR towards Rayalaseema. "Telangana people mistake that YSR invested a lot in Rayalaseema. He was only investing in Kadapa,'' HRF's Chandrasekhar says.

The bigger roadblock would be convincing Telangana supporters. While Rayalaseema region residents are agreeable to merging with Telangana, those from the T area say a stern "No''. The faction-ridden region identity of Rayalaseema works against it being seen as an acceptable portion a new T state would want. "We have never had a common culture. There is no feeling of oneness or even a sense of belonging (to the other region). Besides Rayalaseema is ridden with factionalism and Telangana doesn't have that,'' explains professor S Simhadri of Osmania University.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Summary of Telangana by BBC






Struggle for Telangana

For pdf version please click here

My dear friends, there is something happening in southern part of India in the region of Telangana, people are agitating, Students who are supposed to write their exams in 1st and 2nd weeks of December are on roads farmers, workers, lecturers, doctors, lawyers etc., every employee are in a mood to agitate.

I am writing this mail to you all who are -working in private, government firms, NRI’s (people here felt very happy when NRI’s from many states in USA agitated for Telangana state in Washington D.C)- students who are still pursuing their education in India and abroad- to remind you if you know about it or to tell you if you don’t know the reasons behind it. This is just an attempt to awaken you to let you know the truth.

Dear comrades of Telangana this is the time to debate and tell others what is the significance of the struggle and win over their hearts. For this, it is must that we should know what is the struggle about? (Unfortunately most of us do not know or just don’t care about it as we do not find time in our busy and luxurious lives).

History and statistics of Telangana and Andhra regions:

· It is yet to be established about the point of origin of the Telugu language. Telugu is a predominant language in Southern part of India. Speakers of Telugu are spread from Deccan region to the East coast region of India.

· Hyderabad state had total 16 districts: 8 Telangana + 5 Marat Wada + 3 Kannada speaking districts.

· Nizam dynasty ruled it from 1724 to 1948.

· Struggle against the king started somewhere in 1943 and it reached new heights after 17th August 1947 as king refused to join the Indian union as he had an idea of making it a part of Pakistan.

· Police action started on September 13th and on September 17th of 1948 Hyderabad state became a part of Indian Union.

· Telangana saw its 1st elected government of Boorgula Ramakrishna Rao in 1952, the 4 years vacuum in government sector was filled by people of Andhra region.

· Then started the MULKI struggle (mulk stands for state in Urdu), GAIR MULKI GO BACK was the slogan at that time. It was a very simple but effective tactic by the Govt of India to control the people, officers from Andhra region were placed to monitor the activities in Telangana, for example police of Telangana state was formed by constables from Telangana region and officers from Andhra region. I need not remind you how well will our police department work and it is the direct govt in many places.

Andhra Rastra creation and role of Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Garu:

On 19th of October 1952 Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Garu started indefinite hunger strike for separation of Telugu speaking people from Madras presidency, with Madras as its capital. He died on 15th December 1952 the 63rd day of fasting and Delhi cleared the way for Andhra Rastra, and on 1st October 1953 Andhra Rastra was created with Kurnool as capital. But our great leaders and stupid students of Andhra Pradesh will praise him as the father of AP on every November 1st.

Then what is November 1st - the day of treachery!

STATE REORGANISATION COMMISSION (SRC) 1953:

There was a demand for language based state in several parts of the country and so among few Telugu speaking people of south India.

SRC was commissioned by Delhi and was headed by Supreme Court judge Fazal Ali. He clearly mentioned that 8 Telugu speaking districts of Hyderabad state should be clubbed into a state called Telangana and if interested in future its assembly must vote with 2/3rd majority so that Telangana can be a part of a United Telugu state.

He made points both for and against the unification:

AGAINST unification:

  1. It is not good to merge two regions which are unequal in development

  1. Andhra is in deficit budget and Telangana is in surplus and there is every danger of the surplus being used by deficit region

  1. People of Andhra are well versed with English and telugu education if a state is unified under telugu banner then Telangana people will be the losers because for generations telugu was not administrative language (Urdu was the administrative language here)

  1. Telangana is a plateau region where as the Andhra is plain and fertile utilization of water resources will be unequal under a unified state.

FOR unification:

1. Andhra region will benefit from the infrastructure of Hyderabad and hence the problem of their capital (read it as capital in tents) will be solved.

2. Both regions can exchange food and mineral resources so that there can be an all around development. (now anyone can easily verify what amount of minerals Telangana lost to this unified state but what amount of food it got in return)

FORMATION OF ANDHRA PRADESH:

In 1956 C.M’s (chief ministers) of Hyderabad and Andhra Rastra met in Hyderabad, and leaders from both regions participated in it. ANDHRA leaders: Bejawada Gopal Reddy, Neelam Sanjeev Reddy, Alluri Satyanarayana Raju, Gautu Lacchnna

TELANGANA leaders: Boorgula Ramakirshna Rao, konda Venkata Reddy, Marri Chenna Reddy, J.V. Narsimhlu

Both the groups came to an agreement on the formation of state and on 1st November 1956. Thus Andhra Pradesh became 1st state which formed on basis of language. (Leaders made a mockery of democracy don’t they know how things are run in a democracy? Did they seek permission of people from both the regions for the unification? The attitude was similar to Scottish noble men, in English we call it

Horse trading.

· The then P.M Jawaharlal Nehru on 5th march 1955 while he was in tour of Nizamabad district of Telangana state was asked to comment on Andhra Pradesh state, in reply he made a statement “EK MASOOM BHOLI BHALI

LADKI KO EK NATKAT LADKE KE SAAT SHAADI KIYA JAA RAHA HAI, CHAHE TOH WOH MILKE REH SAKTE HAI YA BICHAD SAKTE HAI”. We need to know a bit poetry and politics to understand this, he said an innocent girl

(Telangana) is being wed to a clever boy (Andhra Rasthram) it is of their choice to continue or to get separated. Here he speaks about a plebiscite ie., a referendum (people can vote yes or no in it). When will government seek the decision by direct vote?

The main points of the treaty made during unification:

1. If one region gets post of chief minister then the other region has to get the post of deputy chief minister and out of ministries of home, finance, revenue, trade, planning , industries any of the two ministries should be given to Telangana MLA’s. (as soon as Sanjeev reddy of Andhra region became CM of AP he abolished the post of Deputy CM)

2. Prohibition of liquor consumption in Andhra region but not in Telangana ( the excise amount collected in Telangana was used by AP but not Telangana)

3. Cost of administration should be in ratio of 2:1 (Andhra: Telangana) (the surplus of Telangana which was left by Nizam was used by AP state)

4. Appointment for jobs on ratio of population (now the qualifications were set high which made the Urdu educated youth as unqualified)

5. If there is a need to remove government job holders then they should be removed in equal ratio (if the recruitment is not in a equal ratio don’t expect the removal to be in equal ratio)

6. Residence of 12 years was compulsory to get jobs. (which was brought down to 4 years by agitation of JAI ANDHRA in 1970’s)

7. Andhra people should not buy lands of Telangana farmers

(implementation of this point need not be explained by me).

8. Cabinet allocation must be in ration of 3:2(Andhra: Telangana) and a Muslim from Telangana must be in the cabinet.

The only two commonalities in between these two regions is they speak Telugu and they are all Indians. The story of Rayalaseema was altogether different, after winning Rayalaseema which was in hands of different rulers Britishers included it in its madras presidency.

Now let us try to look into things that happened after independence.

· Nizam who remained here had no political significance he feared the charges of genocide and left to turkey with his family, and what was left in Telangana was a huge power vacuum.

· Andhra region was lucky enough as they had a first hand experience of how things will run in post independence India because Indian union adopted the same British democracy which Andhra people were well acquaintance with.

· Local landlords of Telangana remained intact as they were not talking of union with Pakistan and Delhi did not feel they were a threat to the union. Moreover as the landlords had access to modern education they realized the benefit of joining the congress party. Now the people of Telangana fell into the fire from the pan, the new enemy was a part of the system and any move against them will be counted as an outlaw

RIGHTS ON ASSETS:

· The whole story in India and even in Telangana starts here, as it is free India now everyone has equal right on assets. But practically land lords were holding long

stretches of land and were reluctant to give the rights.

Here the ruling party at the centre (I need not name it) found a best way to solve this problem the same old way of asking and persuading which brought us freedom. This might work in every other place but will that work in Telangana?

The answer would be NO because we did not beg for freedom, we SNATCHED it from the oppressor and so will be the case of lands, so began the struggle for the land.

That is why the Naxalbury movement on 1967 turned into an alternate solution for the problems of land distribution in Telangana, the state which should look after its people once again stood by the oppressor and crushed the people of Telangana.( please read about the radical movement against the local land lords from any sources you have)

Struggle of 1969:

This movement was raised by Marri Chenna Reddy when kasu Bramhananda Reddy was the then CM of AP, people agitated fiercely and the new PM Inidra Gandhi was observing the events (as what Sonia Gandhi is doing now). Nearly 400 people (90% students) of Telangana died.

In 1969 few points were made to ease the tensions:

1. All the employees who got employment against the rules shall be removed ( not implemented till date)

2. Action against those who got in with JAALI certificates ( no action taken against any such persons)

3. Extension of mulki rules to local administration.

4. Seniority must be respected as per the Supreme Court orders.

5. Funds siphoned from Telangana must be given back ( ?????)

6. Increase the educational facilities in Hyderabad (nothing from government was established but we can feel the heat of Andhra corporate colleges here in Telangana now)

Telangana praja samiti party won 10 MP (Member of Parliament) seats but same old story of noble men, treachery followed victory. All the winners joined in congress and Chenna Reddy became CM of AP and hence called off the struggle.

You find statues of potti sriramulu all over AP but all the 400 odd who died in 1969 Separate Telangana agitation did not find place even in Government records.

JAI ANDHRA movement:

Supreme Court of India denied to accept the case filed by people of Andhra region and solidified the MULKI rules, then started Jai Andhra movement and result was a death blow to Telangana, the following decisions were taken to ease the tensions:

1. All the mulki rules were quashed

2. Telangana regional committee was cancelled

3. People started claiming Hyderabad as FREE ZONE (it is written no where in records about free zone)

4. Period of residence brought down from 12 to 4 years

5. Govt stopped maintaining separate accounts for both the regions

EDUCATION

Andhra

Rayalaseema

Telangana

Junior colleges

266

138

176

Degree colleges

167

70

74

All kinds of schools

26,786

12,857

17,594

Teachers in schools

88,435

38,552

65,040

Literacy rate

39%

38%

30%

Amount spent on

17.4

7.73

2.63

aided Junior

colleges (in crores)

Amount spent on

365

162

55

aided Junior

colleges (in crores)

from 1969

Amount spent on

38.52

8.74

5.76

aided degree

colleges (in crores)

Amount spent on

848

181

121

aided Junior

colleges (in crores)

from 1956

Primary schools (%)

48

23

29

Information as per 2001-02 government records

At any point Telangana with its 10 districts is either given a status equal to or less than Rayalaseema with 4 districts, now if you compare with Andhra the picture will be horrifying!

For every 1 lakh Andhra people and 70,000 Rayalaseema people there is a government junior college and in Telangana for every 6 lakhs students there is a government junior college.

In case of govt degree college in both the regions for every 1,75,000 students there is a college and 3,75,000 Telangana students have a college.

UNIVERSITIES:

Osmania was established by Nizam in 1918 so that cant be a credit of AP, now let us look at the universities in AP:

Andhra+ Rayalaseema regions:

1. Nagarjuna University- Guntur : 1976

2. Srikrishna devaraya University- Anantapur:1978

3. Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam - Tirupathi : 1983

  1. NTR University of Health Sciences – Vijayawada : 1986
  2. Dravida bhasa University-kuppam-2002

  1. Vemana University- kadapa-2006
  2. Raja Raja narendra University-rajamundry-2006

  1. Andhra University-vishakapatnam-1925 (this cant be credited to independent India)

  1. Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha- Tirupathi (Chittoor) -1985

  1. Sri Vinkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (upgraded to medical university in 1995)

TELANGANA REGION:

  1. National Institute of Technology-warangal-1959

  1. Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University – Hyderabad-1964
  2. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University- Hyderabad-1972

  1. The English & Foreign language university- Hyderabad-upgraded to university in-1973

  1. kakatiya University-warangal-1976
  2. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open university- Hyderabad- 1982

  1. Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University- Hyderabad-1985
  2. Maulana Azad National Urdu University- Hyderabad-1998

  1. International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad-1998
  2. Telangana University-nizamabad-2006

  1. mahatma Gandhi university- Nalgonda-2006

University of Hyderabad was established in 1974, it is similar to all other central universities 80% of its seats should be filled by local (Telangana students) as per the initial rules but once again think rationally in 1970’s you establish a central university for P.G’s and further education what was the basic qualification in Telangana at that time? What was the political scene then? Were people ready for it?

Result administration felt that seats are not being filled, so they are now being filled by people from all over India and other regions of AP.

Many of the colleges in Telangana region as you see are limited to Hyderabad and here government calls that they lie in Telangana but recruitment is done by treating them as free zone colleges.

WATER RESOUCES

I would like to start with the Singur Project on Mangeera River it was built to irrigate the fields of Medak but it was used to quench thirst of Hyderabad which is filled with settlers. Why are they fetching water from a Telangana district? And the Rs 250 crores that was spent on this project was shown to be spent on Telangana.

When this question was raised government brought Krishna water to Hyderabad in a gigantic feat by laying huge pipe lines. Are we not acting like Romans by just taking care

of capital and leaving other places to their fate and when their raise voice state uses police to crush their voices?

NAGARJUNA SAGAR:

Built on: River Krishna.

Location: Nalgonda district. 21 villages of Nalgonda got submerged.

Krishna will enter in Mahboobnagar and 69% of its path is in Telangana and 13% in Andhra region and Rayalaseema 18%.

But Andhra uses 65% of its water, and Rayalaseema uses 20% of its water.

Right canal and left canal of this dam are supposed to provide equal water to Andhra and Telangana regions respectively, now for various reasons Andhra are getting water to irrigate 20 lakhs acres and Telangana is getting water for only for 5 lakh acres.

Thanks to K.L Rao, the designer of the dam.

The result is the fields which are being cultivated in Guntur are more than 10 Telangana districts.

SRISAILAM DAM:

Built on: river Krishna

Location: Kurnool district of Rayalaseema

Mahboobnagar which fell in the catchment area of the dam lost 117 villages. 2 lakhs people were made homeless, now I need not talk about compensation it is similar all over India 1st vacate them and they had to leave it to fate and lead rest of their life in slums Palamoor of Mahboobnagar got its name as it was rich in cultivation and domestic animals were very abundant. Now after this dam was constructed the picture turned upside down, after Orissa Palamoor is the largest provider of Migrating labour.

Project Tungabhadra:

Built on: river Tungabhadra

Nizam started the project in 1948 and is supposed to give 20TMC (Thousand Million Cubic Feet) of water to Mahboobnagar, but the canal which was to siphon water till Mahboobnagar was stopped abruptly.

Rajolibanda diversion

Laid the last nail to the coffin to irrigation in Mahboobnagar it is diverting all water to Rayalaseema as you know how decent are the leaders of Rayalaseema and their style of handling democracy.

Bachawat tribunal awarded 17TMC (Thousand Million Cubic Feet) of water to Jurala project(on river Krishna) and 30 years after the verdict the project capacity has been reduced to 10 TMC and it is still on hold as govt of AP is hesitating to pay 30crore compensation to villages in Karnataka and Palamoor is still starving.( government

recently started some work here in agreement with Karnataka government and people are full confident that it will stop for one or the other reason)

GODAVARI WATER:

Of its entire path in AP Godavari flows 79% in Telangana and 21% in Andhra but numbers change when it comes to irrigation 10% of land in Telangana is irrigated and I need not tell u about delta irrigation of Andhra.

Pochampad project of Nizamabad which was stared 35 years ago got rechristened as SRSP (Sri Ram Sagar Project) and it is still waiting for some or the other work to be done. Gutpa Lift irrigation is yet to function fully. But Telugu Ganga of Andhra region which was stated 13 years ago is completed and is functioning well.

INDUSTRIES

1. Azam jahi mills-Warangal,

2. Osmania chemicals,

3. Nizam sugars-Nizamabad,

4. Taj glass factory-Hyderabad,

5. Praga tools-Hyderabad,

6. Sirpur paper mills- Adilabad,

7. Singareni Collieries-Adilabad, Karimnagar, Khammam

8. Hyderabad asbestos

Are they sounding something like they were brought by settlers who claim that they bought investments? Andhra districts had just rice mills before independence, now by the grace of AP people of Telangana lost what they have. All the companies that I mentioned above are evidences of rich and varied industrial strength of Telangana region which are no more.

Let us take a look at the statistics about concessions(subsidies) and number of labourers.

Andhra

Rayalaseema

Telangana

Electricity

60%

7.5%

12.5%

(subsidies)

Agro based

54

23

23

industries

National bank

54

16

30

loans(%)

Industries

6000

750

1250

Workers (lakhs)

2.56

0.30

0.95

Daily labours(lakhs)

3.16

0.70

0.81

This clearly shows the step motherly treatment of government of AP towards Telangana. The industries were spread in all districts when it was under nizam but now industries are located in Hyderabad, whole Rangareddy district is Walloped by Greater Hyderabad,

Medak which has highest number of chemical factories is chocking of pollution, and all the other districts are still waiting for industries to come. All the industries of Nizam which gave people of Telangana a great opportunity are now dwindling due to lack of support or else this can be put in this way that AP govt left them to grow older decay and die.

JOBS

610 GO (Government Order):

The then CM N.T. Rama Rao on 30th December 1985 issued G.O number 610 to correct the mistakes in allocation of jobs from 1975 to 1985. Its main function was to transfer the Andhra employees to their region and Telangana people will be given jobs in that vacated places. And 31st march 1986 was dead line for its implementation.

High lights of 610 G.O:

  1. All job holders filled in contrast with the rules must be sent back by 31st march 1986.

  1. All non gazette cadre employees appointed under Jurala, Srisailam ,Sri ram Sagar projects should be transferred to their zones.
  2. Strict action against those who turned to mal practices
  3. All appeals regarding this issues must be solved by 31st march 1986
  4. All appointments that took place after presidential order must be corrected by 31st march 1986

As per 1986 calculations 59,000 such jobs were given to non locals in Telangana region and no discrepancies in Rayalaseema and Andhra regions.

Now what is the solution as per 610 G.O?

Simple and straight the jobs of non locals increased to 2,50,000 + in 20 years of time after 1986.

I don’t know why great legendary C.M’s words are not impl emented?

How will be the implementation of GO 610 is possible, the orders are implemented by secretariat, by this time you might have understood which region people work in secretariat. Over a period of time people of Telangana were not given jobs only for the reason that they cant read and write proper telugu!

Apply a bit rationality 224 years of Urdu rule and all of a sudden you ask us to compete with Andhra region. Is this a way a people’s go vt deal with its people?

The questions regarding Hyderabad:

“Hyderabad is developed by us (Andhra people)”-

I feel puzzled when I hear this sentence from few (under educated) youth , once again into the history when the great floods of 1900’s ravaged away the Hyderabad, Nizam ordered engineers to design the city in a proper way the result was moksha gundam vishveshwarayya the legendary civil engineer designed the city with good sanitary system with well lined drainages canals to discharge the downpour etc., the city was constructed for growing population on calculated basis (ask a civil engineer you will know how this can be done ).

Now the only aberration here is the addition of 13 more districts to Telangana districts and Hyderabad was named as the capital. What kind of justice is this? Taxes of Telangana people were used to build the capital and who are enjoying it?

We (people of Andhra) brought infrastructure to Hyderabad”-

Its the worlds most pathetic joke I ever heard. What was the capital of Andhra Rastra? KURNOOL, fine where was its secretariat? Guess where? It was in tents.

Now Hyderabad was a place with an Airport, Railway lines to connect it to main land(built by nizam) , and of all the greatest technical advantage is the one who knows to use it is now in Turkey and the one who should actually use them are struggling to survive and secure their rights.

Now all those offices and buildings were used by the new govt of Andhra Pradesh.

Yes things were also built here even after unification of state but to my doubt were all those things were of no use to settlers? Did they build them just for philanthropic purpose?

And if the people of coastal Andhra were that great in their Entrepreneurship skills they could have invested it right there where they were and developed it. This clearly indicates that they had some easy benefits which brought them here.

Telangana is backward”:

1. Few intellectuals (please read it rather as fools) argue that Telangana is rather backward, after reading the data that I gave it will be easy for you to understand how good was its GDP when it was it with nizam, though despotic Nizam rulers built industries, how many big industries did Telangana get after 1956 and how many did Andhra region get. And now nizam sugars which gave a huge sum of Rs 6 lakhs as a relief fund during 1962 Indo-china war is no more a public sector (owned by people’s govt) company it is in the hands of private management.

2. Read about the glory in Mahboobnagar and Karimnagar from any sources, you understand the pathetic condition of them after the unification.

3. If some would argue that we had problem of radical movement, then the state and such people should be ashamed of blaming them. Radicals are different from dacoits and thugs they are born out of system which is incompetent to solve their problem. Here people prefer not to live in darkness and accept the terms imposed on them.

4. Many people accuse people of Telangana as people who lack interest in development here is a straight question for those people what is development? First you define it and go ahead with the discussion; development varies from region to region. We need peace and security to develope , which Telangana lacked almost till 1990’s and who is to be blamed for it ? Obviously Both the centre and state governments , now if some one say that state was busy dealing with such matters then

let them advice what else could people do if they were being persecuted by the very forces of state?

5. And can you please find a person in this world who does not want good health facilities? Good education? Security? And a respectful and peaceful life? Some one claim that they bring investment which we lack, then let them take it back, no one would have stopped the British if they took away the parliament building , Raisina palace(raj bhavan-presidential palace of India), prakasham barrage which they built during their rule. Did they built these all just for us to look and feel the beauty? No they had some use out of it and so are the investments of

the settlers.

Now after decades long fight against landlords’ things turned to normalcy in rural Telangana, but we lost more that 4 decades in that now you suddenly announce the liberalization in 1990’s and ask business men of Telangana t o compete with Andhra business men? Is the race between two equals or between unequal’s? Now to fill the gap business men from North India also came with their huge investments to AP to establish their companies. Even if a Business men from Telangana wants to invest by borrowing a loan from a bank whom will the bank issue a loan? To a company which has huge amount of security and history or to a person who came from no where?

The answer is known. People of Telangana are not against the people who are poor, poor people will migrate only when there is no other choice left for them , we are against the greedy land grabbers and industrialists.

Now the state (India) says if separate state is created it will be hub of Maoists and they point their fingers at Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh! It is senseless to say so giving a separate state does not mean it is the end the centre has to take some additional care, human being with this long history of evolution will always take care of a pregnant women and mother with an infant, we won’t leave them e xpecting them to learn from the history. If a state with such a great mechanism can’t ut ilize its resources to take care of its people then what use of that state will be? Don’t you k now what happened to Mughal empire and Roman empire?

FEW FREQUENTLY RAISED (SILLY) ARGUMENTS

“It is good to be one as we all speak a common language”

The concept of discrimination starts from naming of the state when Marathi speaking people named their state as Maharashtra, Guajarati people as Gujarat, Tamil speaking people as Tamil nadu, why did they name telugu speaking people as Andhra Pradesh why could not this be Telugu Nadu or Telugu Pradesh?

If common language is the base of unity then why did British and USA fight 2 bitter wars (1776 & 1812) though they speak common language?

If u say that they are not geographically connected then atleast say why does not Canada and USA cant join to form a nation, they both speak English right?

Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Haryana, Delhi all speak in Hindi should we combine them? Will they accept it?

Go to Scotland and ask any one are you English? Then he will angrily reply that he is a Scottish, and the bombs of Ireland republican association went off till last decade in streets of London.

Even though their struggle traces back to 13th century Scottish and Irish people kept their struggle alive.

The argument is simple it is not language or land that make a state it is the people and culture make them a state. State stands for people but not a land mass. They concept of centralizing everything is a myth you cant run this big country sitting in Delhi until and unless it shows some respect to regional feelings. Why did all the previous empires did not withstand in India. Could Alla-Ud-Din-khilji and mughal rulers establish their authority by force?

“Telangana will once again move into muslim domination”-

There is no place for communalism (atleast) in Telangana, when Razakars of nizam of were harassing people of Telangana many Muslim youth stood by the side of the oppressed, maqdoom moinuddin is the best example for it.

Abid Hassan was the deputy of Subash Chandra Bose in INA and he hails from Hyderabad. Go and look in rural Telangana who will dance for PIR’ s Of Muslims?

And there is no need for Muslims to prove their patriotism. Telangana has common enemies as the poor of other parts of world has hunger, corruption, oppression, inequality, are our enemies but not a single religion and we will fight the inequality till victory is ours.

“Demand for separate state will lead to disintegration of country”

If that is the case Telangana was a separate country altogether for 13 months why did people fight to join Indian union? Our fight isn’t like Khalistan or any other separatist movement. Just refer to contributions of Telangana during 1962 indo china war and other national catastrophes?

Time has come to correct the policy at the centre. The centre must take care of only Finance, Defense & external affairs it should give chance for the states to evolve, people of north east, Telangana, vidharabha, bhundelkhand, etc., must be given a chance to prove themselves they must be given time to evolve and understand the main stream system

Differences between both regions:

TELANGANA(Hyderabad)

ANDHRA RASTRA

Political system

Governed by king at the centre

Governed

by

British

and landlords at the village level

administration

Police

local landlords looked after law

Police of

British

similar

and order

to today’s police system

Civil administration

Controlled by land lords

Controlled

by

state

machinery

which

is

similar

to

today’s

machinery

Legal system

Old styled

system which was

Courts solved the disputes

slightly corrected to modern one

and

everything

was

in later part of 20th century.

documented

Most of the cases were solved

by caste councils

Position of Dalit’s

Enjoyed

no

rights and

VETTI

Though it was not good

(slavery)

system

was

but at least some had

predominant, debt bondage kept

access

to

missionary

people in grips of land lords. No

education

and

modern

Major

caste

movements

until

education.

more

over

the radical movement in began

campaign

against

in 1970’s

untouchability

and

caste

movements were present

Industries

Huge industries were present all

large

scale

Industries

industries were owned by state

were not present

ie., the king.

Connectivity

Connectivity

was

excellent

It was similar to rest of

because

of

railways

and

India

roadways.

Most of the places which fall in

line

with

Bombay

and

Hyderabad were connected with

train

Agriculture

Fairly

good

but

land

was

Cultivation

was

a

unequally

distributed.

Taxes

respectful

occupation

were very high and were

because

of

Delta

sometime up to 50% of

irrigation

and

other

production,

that

made

Nizam

facilities.

one of the richest kings.

Status of education

Urdu

was

official

language,

Good

at

education

Urban

People

were

educated

because

of

missionary

with what they were required,

education

and

other

they were good at Nizams local

facilities.

legal system and every other

aspect to lead a life in nizam

state. But such education was of

no use after unification as the

system was changed, and even

the educated in the old system is

now not worth of a single pie

Health

Unani

hospitals

were

British

styled

hospitals

predominantly

present

Nizam

established by colonialists

charitable

trust(1961

later

rechristened

to

NIMS)

and

Niloufer

hospital(1949)

are the

best

examples

of

medical

services here

Freedom struggle

Were not integrated with main

Were

in full integration

land India’s freedom struggle

with

main

land

India’s

struggle

Fight against

People

of

Telangana

fought

Andhra people were part

against a despotic ruler and

of madras presidency and

wanted to be a part of Indian

were already a part of

union

India like all other places

Kind of struggle

It was more or less a class

It was a fight against

struggle which started in 1943

colonialists

and became a large scale armed

struggle after august 15 1947 to

integrate into free India

Date of independence

After a year long struggle by its

It got independence on

people and the police action the

17th august 1947

state of Nizam became a part of

Indian Union on 17th September

1948

If you have not thought all this till date, please spend some time thinking. SOCHA NAHIN THO SOCHO ABHI…….please my dear friends this is th e right time to ask for your rights raise your voice or atleast show that there is some difference atleast protest wearing black badges or working for over time. Read more and debate about it. If you are in government firms please participate in PEN DOWN agitations.

NOTE: If you find any mistakes in the statistics you can always write back to me, I got this all information from different books, open sources and from discussions of Telangana students of University of Hyderabad Campus. The arguments I made are views and mine and several other people of Telangana who are agitating for separate state hood.

(This article is received from a anonymous Friend )

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