The Home Minister Mr. Chidambaram, today said, the committee to examine the demand for separate Telangana will be announced next week. Speaking on the ongoing agitation in Telangana, he commented, “much of the agitation has cooled down while there are some protests here and there. My greatest regret is that a couple of students reportedly committed suicide.” Mr. Chidambaram, how many do a couple make, almost everyday a Telangana student is committing suicide in desperation, because they are tired of hearing false promises and have lost all hope of justice from your Government. The list of students ending their lives for Telangana is added to everyday, Venugopal Reddy, Bhooma Reddy, Suvarna, Anil Kumar, Raju, J Srinivas, and Boyini Mogilaiah the latest victim.
Perhaps, you Mr. Chidambaram do not read the newspapers or have deluded yourself into believing the fabricated reports of the state administration. The demand for Telangana is reverberating across the ten districts of the state of Telangana, not a day goes by without there being a rally, a relay fast or a mass demonstration. This inspite of the state administration using all its powers to curb and silence the movement.
On 25th January, a few Telangana organizations the 1969 Telangana Udhyamkarula Samakya, Muslim Front for Telangana, Telangana Praja Samithi, etc organized a prayer meeting in memory of the 360 students who were shot dead in the 1969 agitation and others like Pratap Kishore, EV Padmanbhan, Vandemataram Ram Chander Rao who till their last breath carried aloft the Telangana banner. The prayer meeting was held at the Telangana Martyrs Memorial in Hyderabad. The State administration tried its level best to sabotage the prayer meeting, the power supply was cut off and the meeting was by force conducted in darkness with just a hand speaker. If this is the treatment meted out to senior citizens, who were praying for their slain brothers, imagine the brutality that is waiting to be unleashed at the slightest pretext on the youth who are projected as being hot headed.
The funeral procession of Venugopal, one of the students who committed suicide for Telangana was disrupted by the police. The funeral was attached with batons, tear gas and even fired at by rubber pellets. The police high handedness did not stop with this, they commandeered the mortal remains of Venugopal and whisked it away to Nalgonda, to be silently cremated, an indignity that is not even meted out to criminals who have been awarded the death penalty.
The list of instances, where state violence has been unleashed with impunity is endless. Any rally, public meeting, candle light vigil organized for Telangana however peaceful is disrupted by the administration by cutting off power and electricity.
The tactics employed by the State administration resemble the Chinese response to the pro democracy movement which finally culminated in Tinanmen. Maybe, Mr. Chidambaram your Govt is waiting for Telangana’s Tinanmen to happen before taking any concrete action on its formation. Your Government will have to decide, if it creates Telangana with or without there being a Tinanmen in Telangana.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
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