Telangana – We need to be on our guard

I was speaking with Bhupathi Krishna Moorthy saab, President of the Telangana Praja Samithi, he is from Warangal and has been working on raising awareness on the need for a separate state for the last few decades. What he said was very interesting, according to him the cry for a separate state today is more strident in the districts than it was in 1969.

Also there are quiet a lot of differences between the situation today from what it was in 1969. Where the 1969 agitation was an eye-opener and a spontaneous movement like the 1857 revolt, the current demand is more co-ordinated and can be compared with the do or die movement of the 1940’s. Also the Government is more ruthless today than it was then and the anti Telangana forces have gained in strength and political clout.

In 1969, there were a large number of our people in the administration and they empathized with the Telangana proponents. Today, the force is mostly comprised of Andhra and Rayalseema settlers and is more vicious in its approach to the Telangana demand. In 1969, the arrested leaders and students were treated as political prisoners, whereas now they are imprisoned under false and criminal offences. The very fact that it took more than a month for the students who were arrested in the December upsurge to be released inspite of the CM’s assurance that would be released immediately, speaks of the political and administrative power of these forces.

There are intelligence reports on private armies being organized by the anti Telangana lobby in Cuddapah, Vijayawada, and Guntur. These armies are being set up to unleash terror in Hyderabad, once the movement picks up momentum. There are also plans to infiltrate the Telangana organizations with these elements and sabotage the movement for a separate state. That the Government is well aware of these armies and is doing nothing to curb and dismantle them and also that there is a total media black out on this speaks volumes of the power and clout of the anti Telangana forces.

This makes our task doubly difficult, for apart from keeping up our struggle against the might of the administration we also need to be aware of and guard our movement from these elements. We need to be doubly sure of the people we include in our organizations and keep a sharp eye on any suspicious activity. That the Government and our detractors are waiting in the wings for any incident that will justify the violence they have planned to unleash is a known fact.

However, powerful our detractors are and try as they might, It is the Divine will that has ordained that Telangana will be the 29th state of India.


Jai Telangana
Jai Hind


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