Saturday, February 27, 2010

Ensure Zero Nominations for the By-Elections in Telangana in May, 2010

The by-elections for the Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly seats, which have been laid vacant by the resignation of Telangana MP’s and MLA’s in support of their demand for a separate are due to be held on May 29, 2010. The Election Commission has announced the schedule for these by-elections and all political parties have gone into election mode and are busy with their pre poll permutations and combinations, to select the most probable winning candidate.

It’s a shame that of the 17 Lok Sabha MP’s and 119 MLA’s that we the people of Telangana elected, only 4 MP’s and 18 MLA’s had the moral turpitude to resign in support of our cry for justice. The rest have behaved like the vermin they are, having feasted on our flesh and support they have slunk away to hide in their air-conditioned burrows, when we asked for their support to press our demand for a separate state.

We the people of Telangana need to safeguard these 4 Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly seats, which have been left in our trust by the present incumbents. and not allow anyone to even file the nomination papers. We need to create a situation where the Election Commission is forced to call off the elections because no nominations were filed.

This will send three strong messages, the first to the Central Leadership that we are very serious and committed to achieving Telangana state come what may. The second message will be to our other representatives and the myriad political parties, that no matter how much they ignore our cry for justice and suppress our demand for a separate state, no matter how many crores the Seemandhra lobby pays them to scuttle the issue of Statehood, they will ultimately have to come to us for our vote. And our vote is the Sudarshan chakra, which will slay them tomorrow. And finally to our true leaders, it will act as an elixir and will energize them to carry on the battle till the day that Telangana’s boundary is drawn and they are free to come back to claim their seats, that they so rightly deserve.

Let us resolve, that come what may, no man or woman will be allowed to file nominations for any of these seats. Our message for political parties and independents desirous of filing their nominations is, “We the people of Telangana have resolved that these seats are not open for by elections, if anyone dares to file his or her nomination, they do so at their own risk and God save you.”

Jai Telangana. Jai Hind

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