WHY TELANGANA?

“Jai Telangana, Jai Jai Telangana”, these slogans are being chanted all over the Telangana region since December 2009 for creation of a separate Telangana state from Andhra Pradesh. Public & private property damage, bandhs called by political parties (especially TRS), violence all over were some of the common scenes during these past 5 months in the Telangana region. The question is why Telangana? Is there any injustice being done to the people in Telangana like to the Bihari people in Maharashtra? All across Andhra, people speak Telugu and follow Telugu culture. So is there any difference between Telangana people and Andhra people? I don’t think so. Many people are not aware of the fact that this all started way back from the period of Nizams. The struggle was intensified in the year 1969. About 300 students were killed and more than 350 students injured during that period. Students have been the back bone of this struggle. The students even lost a whole academic year during the 1969 struggle. Till date the batch of 1969 has been blacklisted for jobs. After 1969 people had almost forgotten Telangana state and many had given up. Why this sudden agitation again after 40 years? TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samithi) have woken up suddenly after 40 years. Was it because of Telangana that they woke up or just because their leader Mr. KCR had lost his popularity? KCR started his fast unto death in December 2009 at Siddipet for separate Telangana state and was arrested immediately. This is where the violence began. At some point of time even KCR couldn’t control the violence started by the students. He just was lying at NIMS surrounded by a bunch of doctors and his well wishers. Was he pretending to fast or was he really fasting? The student’s hard work or may I say shameful work did pay-off for sometime as the Congress high command had agreed for the formation of the state but later relented. The situation in the state went from bad to worse. The high command again changed their stance on the issue and formed a Srikrishna panel to look into the bifurcation of state. Why can’t the Congress take a unanimous decision rather than taking decision by force or pressure? The real point is just for the cause of one starving political leader a state cannot be formed overnight. One more thing to be asked is will Telangana be ever formed or the people just have to face the consequences of violence and dirty politics? As such there is no need for Telangana because there is no discrimination among Andhra and Telangana people. Issues like these have just become breeding ground for politicians to gain popularity and power!! Politicians should understand that they cannot play with people’s emotions and more importantly the student’s careers. 70% of the students won’t even know the advantages or disadvantages of Telangana state and just get easily carried away by the mob mentality and lose control over themselves because of peer pressure. A 10th class boy recently committed suicide for Telangana state but the point is I bet he couldn’t even have answered why would he want Telangana. It’s just that people are so damn jobless that they are even ready to risk their lives for matters not even pertaining to their own life. Political parties and bureaucrats should learn to unite people rather than dividing them on the basis of culture, caste etc. Andhra Pradesh was a united state and will be a united state. Even if the boundary is divided between the two regions the boundless emotions and culture of the people of those regions will last forever!!