Monday, January 11, 2010

Two Pronged Political and Administrative Strategy for Telangana

24-year-old Bhooma Reddy, is the latest in the list of many who have committed suicide after seeing the Govt’s apathy on Telangana formation. My earnest appeal to Telangana brothers and sisters is remember “No war is won by scarifying your life. You win wars by making your enemy sacrifice his”. This was written by a Chinese strategist, Lau Tzu over a thousand years back. Instead of losing hope, we need to work towards making the powers that be realize, that there can be no continuation of status quo on this issue. This can happen only if we raise our struggle from being an emotional cry for justice to a strategic demand for a separate state.

The struggle for Telangana has to be fought on two fronts, the political and administrative each with a different plan of action and each reinforcing the impact of the other.

On the political front, I request our representatives to resign from the Lok Sabha, the Assembly, the Legislative Councils and from all political Committees and Ministerial berths. The message from this for the Government will be loud and clear, the struggle cannot be tamed by offering a few morsels of chewed up power like a cabinet berth without portfolio or a Dy. Chief Minister’s post. It will put an end to all speculation and alternatives the center is looking at to walk away from statehood to Telangana and force it to concede to our demand.

At the administrative front, our strategy needs to be the reverse. We need our people in the administration, the police force, the judiciary, the universities and other public corporations to safeguard our interests. As it is we are vastly outnumbered in these and if we resign or leave these posts unattended to it will cause irreparable damage to the state Telangana. Our people within the Government need to assert themselves and derail or make it impossible for any anti-Telangana decision to be implemented. We need them in their posts to safeguard our interests and to be prepared to take over the harness from the Andhras and Rayalseemas once Telangana is formed.

Our strategy till date has been the reverse, our politicians have stuck on like glue to their posts while the administrators have tendered resignations in protest against the Govt’s apathy. The time has now come for us to form a united army to fight for Telangana with the leaders leading from the front and the administrators safeguarding and managing the interests of the region.

Telangana is awaiting its birth, we need to ensure we are capable of nurturing it to prosperity and stability. And this can only happen if we let go of positions of power that we can lay claim to anytime, while sticking on like glue to strategic areas that we can at no time leave unguarded.

Jai Telangana
Jai Hind

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