Rosiah Presents a Dead Budget while Hyderabad Burns

As Nero played the fiddle while Rome burnt, so did Rosiah today present the budget for the dead state of AP, as the city of Hyderabad burned. For how long will the powers that be delude themselves into thinking that the demand for Telangana will die down. The events in the Capital of Telangana today and the response of the Administration sounded the death knell to the hopes of the Andhraseema people, who were thinking that with the Sri Krishna Commission’s constitution they will have a few years more to continue their rape and exploitation of Telangana.

The fact that a few students proposed march to the Assembly, brought the State administration to its knees and forced the police to cordon off the Assembly area, and fence in the city by water tight barricades across state Highways, cancel all inter city trains on the false alarm of a bomb threat, and halt the intracity MMTS. If this is the reaction and fear a few thousand students proposed peace march can create, imagine what will happen when the 3.5 crore people of Telangana take to the streets. Will the administration then mobilize the entire police force of the country and the paramilitary forces and imprison the people of Telangana in their localities, villages and districts, as they today confine our students within the University, Colleges and hostels, with wire fencing and threat of batons and rubber pellets.

And what of our exalted Chief Minister, his cabinet and the so called people’s representatives, they reached the Assembly in their air-conditioned cars, blind to the barricades and the simmering passions in the city. Which they anyways cannot see because of the tinted glass of their cars and homes and the ears that can only hear the call of Delhi. What a travesty of democracy, that these people’s representatives should play at budget, budget while the city cracks under tension and those of us who cannot bear this strain, crack and immolate themselves. Are these MLA’s so foolish that they believe the current Legislative Assembly can survive for the next few months. Most probably they are too scared to face the reality that this is the last time they are sitting within the Assembly premises.

To all intents and purposes, Rosiah has presented a dead budget which will not see the light of the next financial year. For within the next six months, the Finance Minister of Telangana will present the State’s first budget, in the same Assembly.

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