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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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
The Power behind the Governments reluctance to Telangana
Telangana, the 29th state of the republic of India is being held hostage by a handful of construction companies and their henchmen in the administration and Government. That the anti Telangana sentiment is being bank rolled by the Infrastructure and Construction cartel is obvious. Companies like IVRCL, Nagarjuna, GMR, Gayatri Projects, Navayuga, Maytas and Lanco have amongst themselves garnered over 90% of Government contracts running into lakhs of crores in AP. The irrigation projects alone contracted to these companies by the AP Govt in the last 5 years amount to more than two lakh crore rupees.
These Seema Andhra based businessmen with dubious histories proliferated under the patronage of the Naidu and YSR regime in the last two decades is a well known fact. They along with the politicians and their minions in the administration form an unholy nexus of muscle power and money. Additionally most of these companies have on the pretext of setting SEZ’s and Software parks acquired prime land in and around Hyderabad. It is the fear of having these contracts that in many cases have been awarded in contravention of the tender process being investigated by the Telangana Government that is driving the anti state movement.
The whole edifice of these companies is liable to collapse like a pack of cards, if any of their activities are investigated into. Satyam, was just a tip of the ice berg, scratch any of these companies and you will unearth many more and bigger Satyam’s. Only they do not have the 40000 employees, who can be used as an excuse by the Government to maneuver itself into the Management and erase all traces of its involvement with these companies and their promoters.
It is the money power of this while collared Mafia that is forcing the Center’s stance on Telangana formation. Telangana will be formed, the day the central Government realizes the will of 3.5 crore people is more powerful than these people’s money bags. Upto now our demand has been aimed at the Government, we now need to direct it at the strings that are manipulating the Government, i.e. at these business houses. Let us make an example of one of the most vocal anti Telangana companies and force its closure for a week in a non-violent and peaceful manner. I will be looking forward to suggestions from all of you on which anti Telangana lobby we need to make an example of and what we can do to achieve our goals. So please keep thinking and posting your ideas. I can think of quiet a few, like a day of prayers forgiving the Seema Andhra lobby for their crimes against Telangana, organized in front of the offices of this business house.
This may not be easy and will call for grit and determination, but what do we have to lose except our lives which anyway are worthless in AP. The days of bandh are protest rallies has reached the stage of diminishing returns. We now need to take our struggle for a separate state to the next level where our antagonists heave a sign of relief when one protest ends and live in fear of what will follow next.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
These Seema Andhra based businessmen with dubious histories proliferated under the patronage of the Naidu and YSR regime in the last two decades is a well known fact. They along with the politicians and their minions in the administration form an unholy nexus of muscle power and money. Additionally most of these companies have on the pretext of setting SEZ’s and Software parks acquired prime land in and around Hyderabad. It is the fear of having these contracts that in many cases have been awarded in contravention of the tender process being investigated by the Telangana Government that is driving the anti state movement.
The whole edifice of these companies is liable to collapse like a pack of cards, if any of their activities are investigated into. Satyam, was just a tip of the ice berg, scratch any of these companies and you will unearth many more and bigger Satyam’s. Only they do not have the 40000 employees, who can be used as an excuse by the Government to maneuver itself into the Management and erase all traces of its involvement with these companies and their promoters.
It is the money power of this while collared Mafia that is forcing the Center’s stance on Telangana formation. Telangana will be formed, the day the central Government realizes the will of 3.5 crore people is more powerful than these people’s money bags. Upto now our demand has been aimed at the Government, we now need to direct it at the strings that are manipulating the Government, i.e. at these business houses. Let us make an example of one of the most vocal anti Telangana companies and force its closure for a week in a non-violent and peaceful manner. I will be looking forward to suggestions from all of you on which anti Telangana lobby we need to make an example of and what we can do to achieve our goals. So please keep thinking and posting your ideas. I can think of quiet a few, like a day of prayers forgiving the Seema Andhra lobby for their crimes against Telangana, organized in front of the offices of this business house.
This may not be easy and will call for grit and determination, but what do we have to lose except our lives which anyway are worthless in AP. The days of bandh are protest rallies has reached the stage of diminishing returns. We now need to take our struggle for a separate state to the next level where our antagonists heave a sign of relief when one protest ends and live in fear of what will follow next.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Thursday, January 21, 2010
How many more before Telangana is achieved
Venugopal Reddy, Bhooma Reddy, Suvarna, Anil Kumar, Raju, J Srinivas, the list of students who have laid down their lives in desperation, because of the Center’s apathy to Telangana cause, is endless. Wonder, how many more lives need to be laid down before the Central Government, and the various political parties take action. The list would have included another 300 more had the police yesterday used live cartridges instead of rubber pellets to stop Venugopal’s funeral procession from entering the city.
The brute force unleashed by the police force on a funeral procession, was uncalled for and in gross violation of human rights. Maybe, for the state administration and the central leadership, the 3.5 crore Telangana people are not humans. And they deserve neither justice and dignity while alive nor respect and honour in death. The specious explanation given that it might have led to a law and order situation in the city is untenable. The administrations handling of the Telangana struggle is reminiscent of the British rules response to India’s freedom movement.
Maybe, the powers that be felt that seeing Venugopal’s mortal remains at the Telangana Martyrs Memorial, would have pricked the long dead conscience of Telangana leaders and forced them to open their eyes to plight of the people. Maybe, it would have jolted some of them out of the stupor of power with which they are intoxicated to listen to the cry of the people and submit their resignations. Maybe, the administration was worried that Gandhi’s statue in the Assembly premises might have been moved to speak in favour of Telangana. For it is more believable that our plight and cry for justice be heard by a statue than by our leaders.
Do the Telangana leaders empathize with and relate to the despair of our youth who are driven to taking their lives because they feel dejected, alienated and oppressed in their own state. Or is it that they are so enured to using our hopes and aspirations of a free state for their political ambitions that the suicides of a handful of students makes no dent in their conscience. How many more lives need to be sacrificed, how many more Vengopal’s and Suvarna’s does India want before Telangana is created.
Maybe for the Central Leadership the numbers are too meager to justify Telangana. Maybe it has set the target for taking action at a 100, or 1000, or maybe even 10000. We are tired of second guessing the threshold you have set for listening to our demand. Just tell us how many, and you shall have it. For we the people of Telangana are willing to pave the road from Hyderabad to Delhi with our lives.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
The brute force unleashed by the police force on a funeral procession, was uncalled for and in gross violation of human rights. Maybe, for the state administration and the central leadership, the 3.5 crore Telangana people are not humans. And they deserve neither justice and dignity while alive nor respect and honour in death. The specious explanation given that it might have led to a law and order situation in the city is untenable. The administrations handling of the Telangana struggle is reminiscent of the British rules response to India’s freedom movement.
Maybe, the powers that be felt that seeing Venugopal’s mortal remains at the Telangana Martyrs Memorial, would have pricked the long dead conscience of Telangana leaders and forced them to open their eyes to plight of the people. Maybe, it would have jolted some of them out of the stupor of power with which they are intoxicated to listen to the cry of the people and submit their resignations. Maybe, the administration was worried that Gandhi’s statue in the Assembly premises might have been moved to speak in favour of Telangana. For it is more believable that our plight and cry for justice be heard by a statue than by our leaders.
Do the Telangana leaders empathize with and relate to the despair of our youth who are driven to taking their lives because they feel dejected, alienated and oppressed in their own state. Or is it that they are so enured to using our hopes and aspirations of a free state for their political ambitions that the suicides of a handful of students makes no dent in their conscience. How many more lives need to be sacrificed, how many more Vengopal’s and Suvarna’s does India want before Telangana is created.
Maybe for the Central Leadership the numbers are too meager to justify Telangana. Maybe it has set the target for taking action at a 100, or 1000, or maybe even 10000. We are tired of second guessing the threshold you have set for listening to our demand. Just tell us how many, and you shall have it. For we the people of Telangana are willing to pave the road from Hyderabad to Delhi with our lives.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Telangana pseudo democratic State
Telangana, the 29th state of independent India, is fast becoming a police state with the reins of the government slowly but surely being taken over by the ex Andhra IPS officer and now the Governor of AP ESL Narasimhan.
Since taking oath as the Governor on 28th December 2009, he has reduced the status of the Chief Minister of the State to that of an errand boy. While the CM tries to make out he is running the Government, Narasimhan is acting as the de facto ruler of the state and apportioning to himself all powers and privileges of the state. Have you ever heard of a Governor upbraiding the Home Minister of the State for her regional bias, has any Governor any where in the history of the Nation taken unto himself the supreme command of the police force while there is a constitutionally elected and functioning Chief Minister along with his council, has any Governor in India ever sought to interfere in the working of the University, has any Governor been so over zealous as to have a report besmirching a people’s movement prepared in less than a week, ESL Narasimhan the Governor of AP has done all this and more.
Narasimhan’s move into the Hyderabad’s Raj Bhawan was planned and executed with military precision. That there are powerful vested interests like the Seema Andhra land mafia in Hyderabad and the Government contractor lobby, which wanted to get rid of Tiwari and have a more pliable man posted in his steed is a well known fact. Surprisingly, since Narasimhan’s appointment the anti-Telangana agitation has all but died down. And rightly so! why bother with bandhs and protest marches, when your work is being ably carried out by your protege.
For the people of Telangana, this is just the beginning, remember the brutality with which the force tried to stop our peace protests, the fact that we had to get the High Court’s order to conduct a students meeting, because the police denied us the right of free speech, at the behest of the Governor. The VC of the Osmania University was forced to go ahead with the semester exams inspite of the syllabus being incomplete, so as to derail our movement, no second guess who was behind the VC’s decision.
Narasimhan, the ex Andhra cadre IPS officer, has been placed in the Hyderabad Raj Bhawan, with a single point agenda. Stop the formation of Telangana state. What he has failed to realize is that in the dusk of his career he has been sent on a futile mission that is deemed to be a failure. For we the people of Telangana have resolved to fight for and achieve statehood and claim our fundamental right to a life of dignity and honor.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
Since taking oath as the Governor on 28th December 2009, he has reduced the status of the Chief Minister of the State to that of an errand boy. While the CM tries to make out he is running the Government, Narasimhan is acting as the de facto ruler of the state and apportioning to himself all powers and privileges of the state. Have you ever heard of a Governor upbraiding the Home Minister of the State for her regional bias, has any Governor any where in the history of the Nation taken unto himself the supreme command of the police force while there is a constitutionally elected and functioning Chief Minister along with his council, has any Governor in India ever sought to interfere in the working of the University, has any Governor been so over zealous as to have a report besmirching a people’s movement prepared in less than a week, ESL Narasimhan the Governor of AP has done all this and more.
Narasimhan’s move into the Hyderabad’s Raj Bhawan was planned and executed with military precision. That there are powerful vested interests like the Seema Andhra land mafia in Hyderabad and the Government contractor lobby, which wanted to get rid of Tiwari and have a more pliable man posted in his steed is a well known fact. Surprisingly, since Narasimhan’s appointment the anti-Telangana agitation has all but died down. And rightly so! why bother with bandhs and protest marches, when your work is being ably carried out by your protege.
For the people of Telangana, this is just the beginning, remember the brutality with which the force tried to stop our peace protests, the fact that we had to get the High Court’s order to conduct a students meeting, because the police denied us the right of free speech, at the behest of the Governor. The VC of the Osmania University was forced to go ahead with the semester exams inspite of the syllabus being incomplete, so as to derail our movement, no second guess who was behind the VC’s decision.
Narasimhan, the ex Andhra cadre IPS officer, has been placed in the Hyderabad Raj Bhawan, with a single point agenda. Stop the formation of Telangana state. What he has failed to realize is that in the dusk of his career he has been sent on a futile mission that is deemed to be a failure. For we the people of Telangana have resolved to fight for and achieve statehood and claim our fundamental right to a life of dignity and honor.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
Monday, January 18, 2010
Will our politicians desert us again
Looks like Telangana will be betrayed by its Judas’s again. I refer to our politicians the MP’s, MLA’s and MLC’s we have elected to be our voice in the Government. That they continue to dilly and dally in having their resignations accepted, and forcing the center to start the process for the formation of Telangana is a tamasha we are seeing daily. The concern of the congress MP’s, MLA’s and MLC’s seems to be driven more by what the party high command wants than by the voice of the people who put them in their seats of power.
While we clamor for our leaders to force their resignation and pressurize the central Government to heed to our demands, they cling on like limpets to their positions of power. What they fail to realize is that, the people of Telangana are losing their patience, what happened to Danam Nagendra is just a small example of things to come. As it is the leaders today are afraid of going outside Hyderabad or their constituency, imagine what the situation will be post 28 January, when their deadline expires. Our demand for your resignation is reasonable, we have placed you in your seats and if your resignation serves the interests of our region then resign you must, it is your Dharma. If you relinquish your power today, the loss will be transitory, we promise you, you will come back triumphant. Ignore our cry today and tomorrow you will be cast off like pariahs.
It is Telangana’s misfortune to be betrayed by its politicians, the history of the movement is littered with the sacrifices of its youth and the treachery of its leaders. In 1969, the massacre of 390 students was overshadowed by the treachery of M. Chenna Reddy who bartered the state for the Chief Ministers post. The same happened in 2004, when KCR pledged the future of the region for a cabinet berth with no portfolio. And history prepares to repeat itself, while our youth immolate themselves and succumb to depression on the plight of the region and our students stare at the prospect of a zero academic year, our leaders whose resignations would have the maximum impact at least cost hesitate to do so.
They cite the frivolous reason that “it might bring about a constitutional crisis” what about the humanitarian crisis that has been plaguing the region for the last half century, a systemic marginalization of 3.5 crore people. Our message to our leaders is loud and clear, we are willing to lay down our lives for Telangana. You have to decide if you are with or against us. If you are with the 3.5 crore people of Telangana, then resign from your posts and come join us. If you are not with us, then a word of advice please stay safely in your mansions and do not defile our homes by setting foot in them.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
While we clamor for our leaders to force their resignation and pressurize the central Government to heed to our demands, they cling on like limpets to their positions of power. What they fail to realize is that, the people of Telangana are losing their patience, what happened to Danam Nagendra is just a small example of things to come. As it is the leaders today are afraid of going outside Hyderabad or their constituency, imagine what the situation will be post 28 January, when their deadline expires. Our demand for your resignation is reasonable, we have placed you in your seats and if your resignation serves the interests of our region then resign you must, it is your Dharma. If you relinquish your power today, the loss will be transitory, we promise you, you will come back triumphant. Ignore our cry today and tomorrow you will be cast off like pariahs.
It is Telangana’s misfortune to be betrayed by its politicians, the history of the movement is littered with the sacrifices of its youth and the treachery of its leaders. In 1969, the massacre of 390 students was overshadowed by the treachery of M. Chenna Reddy who bartered the state for the Chief Ministers post. The same happened in 2004, when KCR pledged the future of the region for a cabinet berth with no portfolio. And history prepares to repeat itself, while our youth immolate themselves and succumb to depression on the plight of the region and our students stare at the prospect of a zero academic year, our leaders whose resignations would have the maximum impact at least cost hesitate to do so.
They cite the frivolous reason that “it might bring about a constitutional crisis” what about the humanitarian crisis that has been plaguing the region for the last half century, a systemic marginalization of 3.5 crore people. Our message to our leaders is loud and clear, we are willing to lay down our lives for Telangana. You have to decide if you are with or against us. If you are with the 3.5 crore people of Telangana, then resign from your posts and come join us. If you are not with us, then a word of advice please stay safely in your mansions and do not defile our homes by setting foot in them.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Mr Girish Kumar – you are talking through your hat
Mr. Girish Kumar, the DGP of the soon to be split AP, seems to have forgotten his geography. When asked by media persons whether Maoists would have an advantage in Telangana replied, “It would be difficult for police to contain Maoist activities in relatively smaller states”. He went to add that Telangana because of its size would not have the resources to fight the Maoists. What do you mean by smaller states Mr. Girish Kumar? Telangana with an area of 114,800 acres will be the 13th largest state in India by area and the 12th largest state demographically with a population of 3.5 crores.
Maybe he was trying to please his masters by toeing their storyline. The Naxal and Maoist bogey is being raised by Telangana detractors for long to justify their hegemony over the region. The root cause of these extremist groups proliferation in Telangana is the neglect and apathy shown to the region. Successive Andhra and Rayalseema led Governments, have turned a once prosperous region into recruiting fields for extremism. The youth of Telangana the region have had no chance in the last half century to better their lives, infact they have been progressively marginalized.
Evidence the facts, Telangana has the major share of land and population, yet the key parameters for development is the lowest. While the literacy rate in the nine districts of Andhra is 42%, 38% in the four districts of Rayalseema it is a mere 30% in Telangana’s 10 districts. Look at the number of schools in these regions, Andhra’s 26800 and Rayalseema’s 13000 compared with Telangana’s 17954. At the higher level of education grant-in-aid to 96 private Degree colleges in Andhra, 32 in Rayalaseema and not surprisingly just 30 in Telangana. And the discrimination does not end here, it goes on and on in every area water, power, medical care, Govt grants the list is endless.
Take a note of this, Mahabubnagar, the most backward district in AP was granted 4% white ration cards while W.Godavari the most developed district in AP was given 7% white ration cards!
Mr.Girish Kumar, a word of advise verify your facts before speaking and please do not mouth the words of the Land Mafia and the Government contractor lobby which is behind the opposition to the Telangana state. For you know, you may shortly be the DGP of the Telangana.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
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http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Maybe he was trying to please his masters by toeing their storyline. The Naxal and Maoist bogey is being raised by Telangana detractors for long to justify their hegemony over the region. The root cause of these extremist groups proliferation in Telangana is the neglect and apathy shown to the region. Successive Andhra and Rayalseema led Governments, have turned a once prosperous region into recruiting fields for extremism. The youth of Telangana the region have had no chance in the last half century to better their lives, infact they have been progressively marginalized.
Evidence the facts, Telangana has the major share of land and population, yet the key parameters for development is the lowest. While the literacy rate in the nine districts of Andhra is 42%, 38% in the four districts of Rayalseema it is a mere 30% in Telangana’s 10 districts. Look at the number of schools in these regions, Andhra’s 26800 and Rayalseema’s 13000 compared with Telangana’s 17954. At the higher level of education grant-in-aid to 96 private Degree colleges in Andhra, 32 in Rayalaseema and not surprisingly just 30 in Telangana. And the discrimination does not end here, it goes on and on in every area water, power, medical care, Govt grants the list is endless.
Take a note of this, Mahabubnagar, the most backward district in AP was granted 4% white ration cards while W.Godavari the most developed district in AP was given 7% white ration cards!
Mr.Girish Kumar, a word of advise verify your facts before speaking and please do not mouth the words of the Land Mafia and the Government contractor lobby which is behind the opposition to the Telangana state. For you know, you may shortly be the DGP of the Telangana.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Friday, January 15, 2010
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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http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
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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
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Stop this Munna Bhai Dramabaazi
Members of the samakhya Andhra faction have tried playing Munna Bhai by sending sweets to the members of the JAC. What you have failed to realize is that for gestures like these, there has to be reformation of evil designs and the act has to be a visible manifestation of the change within. Without the remorse and genuine regret acts like these will remain what they are, dramabaazi.
The very fact, that you resist our cry for justice and self respect belies your avowed intentions of brotherhood. Today, you look at sending sweets to our leaders as a grand gesture of patience and tolerance, but did you not think of sending a few handful of grains to our people who continue to die of starvation. Do you think that the sweets you send will bring a smile to the families of our farmers, whose fathers and brothers have been forced to commit suicide because they were unable to bear the burden of barren lands any longer. Lands that are barren because, our waters that would irrigated their crops have been diverted to your fields.
Do you honestly believe that sending sweets to the families of our people, whose jobs you continue to usurp will show your greatness? Or will the handful of sugar and wheat flour assuage the heartburn and despair of our students, who find the portals of the universities closed for them, because our seats have been captured by you and your ilk.
You continue to show your callousness even in this gesture, pray tell me do you think that our struggle to liberate our mother Telangana, who has been forcibly confined to the brothel that is AP, be brought over by sweets.
Listen, to your conscience if you have one and let Telangana free. If you really want to distribute sweetness and light, let the voice of reason and humanity prevail this Sankranti. Act, while you still have the chance to go in honour. Do not try our patience any longer. For if we have to force you to leave, God knows you will leaving your chappals too behind.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
The very fact, that you resist our cry for justice and self respect belies your avowed intentions of brotherhood. Today, you look at sending sweets to our leaders as a grand gesture of patience and tolerance, but did you not think of sending a few handful of grains to our people who continue to die of starvation. Do you think that the sweets you send will bring a smile to the families of our farmers, whose fathers and brothers have been forced to commit suicide because they were unable to bear the burden of barren lands any longer. Lands that are barren because, our waters that would irrigated their crops have been diverted to your fields.
Do you honestly believe that sending sweets to the families of our people, whose jobs you continue to usurp will show your greatness? Or will the handful of sugar and wheat flour assuage the heartburn and despair of our students, who find the portals of the universities closed for them, because our seats have been captured by you and your ilk.
You continue to show your callousness even in this gesture, pray tell me do you think that our struggle to liberate our mother Telangana, who has been forcibly confined to the brothel that is AP, be brought over by sweets.
Listen, to your conscience if you have one and let Telangana free. If you really want to distribute sweetness and light, let the voice of reason and humanity prevail this Sankranti. Act, while you still have the chance to go in honour. Do not try our patience any longer. For if we have to force you to leave, God knows you will leaving your chappals too behind.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Makara Sankranti - An end to Telangana antagonists
'Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya', may you go higher & higher, to more & more Light and never to Darkness. This is Makar Sankranti’s message to the people of Telangana. As Surya begins its ascendancy today, so shall Telangana begin its.
Just as Lord Vishnu ended the terrors of the Asuras on this day, by finishing them off and burying their heads under the Mandara Parvata, so do we the people of Telangana need to finish the evil and exploitative forces that hold us in bondage. We have raised our voice and it has hardly made a dent in the center’s policy. We are still hearing words like “normalcy to return”, “consultative approach” from the Central leadership. The time for discussions, platitudes and negotiations is over, like Lord Vishnu’s Sudarshan Chakra, we have to sever the power fount of the exploitative anti Telangana forces. The resistance to Telangana is from two powerful forces the land mafia in Hyderabad and the Government contractors in AP. Dry the power of these two factions and the life blood of the anti Telangana forces will dry down.
First, how do we tackle the land mafia with their political, and goonda power. We have neither the money nor the gun toting armies like them, but we have is as powerful as the Sudarshan chakra, the might of our numbers and our determination and like Vishnu we need to wield it just once. Let us take one strong and decisive move, select the most visible and voluble Telangana antagonist, a highly visible example of trickery and cheating who has illegally occupied acres of prime land in Hyderabad, and lay siege to its offices and business interests and force the suspension of work. This will hit the exploiters jugular with no effect on the people and future of Telangana. We all know this business house will not have employed any person from Telangana hence if its offices are closed down the livelihood of our people is not jeopardized nor will it impact our future as the business will not be working on the regions development. Its mantra would be make money in Hyderabad and develop Vijayawada or Vizag. This will give out the message, loud and clear to the others that it is time for them to pack their bags and go.
Coming to the Government contractors, how do we tackle them. This is where our brothers and sisters in Government and Administration need to pitch in. You will have to see to it, that no contractor except if it is from Telangana is awarded any project. And if it has completed or is working on any project ensure the money due to them is delayed indefinitely. I am sure we can make this happen by using the Government machinery to delay approvals and payments. Once they realize that Hyderabad and Telangana is no longer the goose that lays the golden egg, their antipathy and resistance to our state will die a natural death.
This will require firm and decisive action on our part, and if we hesitate any longer the time will be lost and we will have to wait for another 50 years for a Makar Sankranti like todays. Let us remember we have lost all and there is nothing more to lose. Now, there is just one way to go, UP. Telangana will be born not with a whimper but a roar.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Just as Lord Vishnu ended the terrors of the Asuras on this day, by finishing them off and burying their heads under the Mandara Parvata, so do we the people of Telangana need to finish the evil and exploitative forces that hold us in bondage. We have raised our voice and it has hardly made a dent in the center’s policy. We are still hearing words like “normalcy to return”, “consultative approach” from the Central leadership. The time for discussions, platitudes and negotiations is over, like Lord Vishnu’s Sudarshan Chakra, we have to sever the power fount of the exploitative anti Telangana forces. The resistance to Telangana is from two powerful forces the land mafia in Hyderabad and the Government contractors in AP. Dry the power of these two factions and the life blood of the anti Telangana forces will dry down.
First, how do we tackle the land mafia with their political, and goonda power. We have neither the money nor the gun toting armies like them, but we have is as powerful as the Sudarshan chakra, the might of our numbers and our determination and like Vishnu we need to wield it just once. Let us take one strong and decisive move, select the most visible and voluble Telangana antagonist, a highly visible example of trickery and cheating who has illegally occupied acres of prime land in Hyderabad, and lay siege to its offices and business interests and force the suspension of work. This will hit the exploiters jugular with no effect on the people and future of Telangana. We all know this business house will not have employed any person from Telangana hence if its offices are closed down the livelihood of our people is not jeopardized nor will it impact our future as the business will not be working on the regions development. Its mantra would be make money in Hyderabad and develop Vijayawada or Vizag. This will give out the message, loud and clear to the others that it is time for them to pack their bags and go.
Coming to the Government contractors, how do we tackle them. This is where our brothers and sisters in Government and Administration need to pitch in. You will have to see to it, that no contractor except if it is from Telangana is awarded any project. And if it has completed or is working on any project ensure the money due to them is delayed indefinitely. I am sure we can make this happen by using the Government machinery to delay approvals and payments. Once they realize that Hyderabad and Telangana is no longer the goose that lays the golden egg, their antipathy and resistance to our state will die a natural death.
This will require firm and decisive action on our part, and if we hesitate any longer the time will be lost and we will have to wait for another 50 years for a Makar Sankranti like todays. Let us remember we have lost all and there is nothing more to lose. Now, there is just one way to go, UP. Telangana will be born not with a whimper but a roar.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
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
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
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
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Agenda – Stiffle the Telangana Struggle
Read my lips, Telangana is the issue we want to turn a Nelson’s eye to. This seems to be the mantra of the Congress at the center and there are numerous pointers to this. After committing to start the process for creating Telangana on Dec 9, the Govt seems to be slowly going in reverse gear on its commitment.
The events at the center and here in Hyderabad all point to frantic behind the scene manipulations aimed at blunting the impact of the struggle. It all started with ND Tiwari’s videogate scandal with the attendant hue and cry. Then we had the Home Minister raising the Naxal and Maoist bogey at the all party meet. And the specious logic that the Telangana state will fall a prey to naxalism and Maoism. The latest in the series is the report carried in one of Andhra owned channels on the Ambani brothers plotting YSR’s chopper crash. Who ever is devising these strategies seems to be unscrupulous that they can besmirch the reputation of an octogenarian. They seem to have connections in high places, evidence having ND Tiwari replaced by ESL Narasimhan, who within a week of taking office prepares a case file on Naxal and Maoist infiltration in the Struggle. And desperate enough to accuse the biggest Business houses in India of murdering the CM of a state. That these people have a lot to lose and are scared stiff is evident with the increasingly desperate actions they are taking to detract the movement.
And it all ties down perfectly with the Centre’s changing stance on Telangana. The congress high powered core group has decided to wait for the situation to normalize before coming out with a mechanism for holding consultations on the Telangana issue. Mark the words “SITUATION TO NORMALISE” “MECHANISISM FOR CONSULTATIONS”. Looks like the Government is either not listening to the anguished cry of 3.5 crore Indians, or is choosing to play dumb. Can anyone tell me, how a situation can be normal, for a region that has been raped, brutalized and oppressed for 50 long years. Or do they mean a return to status quo, where our farmers quietly commit suicide, where the future of our children is compromised because the engineering and medical seats in their colleges are taken by the Andhras and Rayalseemas. And their jobs and livelihoods are snatched.
Please remember, when the hunger in the stomach and the desperation in the hearts reaches the head, there is no turning back. We the people of Telangana have reached the point to no return and will settle for nothing less than our separate state.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
The events at the center and here in Hyderabad all point to frantic behind the scene manipulations aimed at blunting the impact of the struggle. It all started with ND Tiwari’s videogate scandal with the attendant hue and cry. Then we had the Home Minister raising the Naxal and Maoist bogey at the all party meet. And the specious logic that the Telangana state will fall a prey to naxalism and Maoism. The latest in the series is the report carried in one of Andhra owned channels on the Ambani brothers plotting YSR’s chopper crash. Who ever is devising these strategies seems to be unscrupulous that they can besmirch the reputation of an octogenarian. They seem to have connections in high places, evidence having ND Tiwari replaced by ESL Narasimhan, who within a week of taking office prepares a case file on Naxal and Maoist infiltration in the Struggle. And desperate enough to accuse the biggest Business houses in India of murdering the CM of a state. That these people have a lot to lose and are scared stiff is evident with the increasingly desperate actions they are taking to detract the movement.
And it all ties down perfectly with the Centre’s changing stance on Telangana. The congress high powered core group has decided to wait for the situation to normalize before coming out with a mechanism for holding consultations on the Telangana issue. Mark the words “SITUATION TO NORMALISE” “MECHANISISM FOR CONSULTATIONS”. Looks like the Government is either not listening to the anguished cry of 3.5 crore Indians, or is choosing to play dumb. Can anyone tell me, how a situation can be normal, for a region that has been raped, brutalized and oppressed for 50 long years. Or do they mean a return to status quo, where our farmers quietly commit suicide, where the future of our children is compromised because the engineering and medical seats in their colleges are taken by the Andhras and Rayalseemas. And their jobs and livelihoods are snatched.
Please remember, when the hunger in the stomach and the desperation in the hearts reaches the head, there is no turning back. We the people of Telangana have reached the point to no return and will settle for nothing less than our separate state.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Friday, January 8, 2010
Where are the Maoists Mr.Home Minister?
The home minister Mr. Chidambaram, in the All Party meeting on 5th Jan, stressed the fact that the Maoists and Naxals are driving the demand and agitation for Telangana. The home minister based his presentation at the meeting on the report sent by the AP Governor Mr. ESL Narasimhan. Looks like the first task undertaken by the Hon Governor was to prepare the report on the influence of Naxals and Maoists in the Telangana struggle. We all agree the philosophy of violence and extremism is detrimental to our growth. And are managing our struggle in the most responsible and peaceful manner, even under extreme provocation. The Government banned our public meeting on the 3rd and forced us to get the go ahead from the High Court, and even then later on cut the power supply to disrupt our peaceful meeting.
Where do you see the naxals and the Maoists Mr. Chidambaram, were the two lakh students who participated in the Telangana Garjana naxals, is Prof K Jayashankar, the former VC of Kakatiya University a naxalite, or are the members of the Adilabad Bar Association who staged a rasta roko at Penganga river bridge on AP-Maharashtra border Maoist infiltrators. Or is it that the members of Telangana Employees Association, acting at the naxals behest. Or are the members of the “Telangana Pensioners Joint Action Committee”, all retired Govt employees being directed by the Maoists. You Mr. Home Minster, are trying to prepare the grounds for denying the 3.5 crore people of Telangana of their right to govern themselves.
We may not be as powerful or have the money power that those who have been exploiting us like the Rajagopal’s and the Andhra land mafia. But what we have is the will, determination and the grit to carve out our state. We have lived for 50 long years under the shackles of Andhra and Rayalseema domination and chose not to bear the oppression any longer. Read the writing on the wall Mr. Chidambaram, You and your leadership will have to acknowledge and heed to our demand for Telangana.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Where do you see the naxals and the Maoists Mr. Chidambaram, were the two lakh students who participated in the Telangana Garjana naxals, is Prof K Jayashankar, the former VC of Kakatiya University a naxalite, or are the members of the Adilabad Bar Association who staged a rasta roko at Penganga river bridge on AP-Maharashtra border Maoist infiltrators. Or is it that the members of Telangana Employees Association, acting at the naxals behest. Or are the members of the “Telangana Pensioners Joint Action Committee”, all retired Govt employees being directed by the Maoists. You Mr. Home Minster, are trying to prepare the grounds for denying the 3.5 crore people of Telangana of their right to govern themselves.
We may not be as powerful or have the money power that those who have been exploiting us like the Rajagopal’s and the Andhra land mafia. But what we have is the will, determination and the grit to carve out our state. We have lived for 50 long years under the shackles of Andhra and Rayalseema domination and chose not to bear the oppression any longer. Read the writing on the wall Mr. Chidambaram, You and your leadership will have to acknowledge and heed to our demand for Telangana.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Where are the Maoists Mr. Home Minister?
The home minister Mr. Chidambaram, in the All Party meeting on 5th Jan, stressed the fact that the Maoists and Naxals are driving the demand and agitation for Telangana. The home minister based his presentation at the meeting on the report sent by the AP Governor Mr. ESL Narasimhan. Looks like the first task undertaken by the Hon Governor was to prepare the report on the influence of Naxals and Maoists in the Telangana struggle. We all agree the philosophy of violence and extremism is detrimental to our growth. And are managing our struggle in the most responsible and peaceful manner, even under extreme provocation. The Government banned our public meeting on the 3rd and forced us to get the go ahead from the High Court, and even then later on cut the power supply to disrupt our peaceful meeting.
Where do you see the naxals and the Maoists Mr. Chidambaram, were the two lakh students who participated in the Telangana Garjana naxals, is Prof K Jayashankar, the former VC of Kakatiya University a naxalite, or are the members of the Adilabad Bar Association who staged a rasta roko at Penganga river bridge on AP-Maharashtra border Maoist infiltrators. Or is it that the members of Telangana Employees Association, acting at the naxals behest. Or are the members of the “Telangana Pensioners Joint Action Committee”, all retired Govt employees being directed by the Maoists. You Mr. Home Minster, are trying to prepare the grounds for denying the 3.5 crore people of Telangana of their right to govern themselves.
We may not be as powerful or have the money power that those who have been exploiting us like the Rajagopal’s and the Andhra land mafia. But what we have is the will, determination and the grit to carve out our state. We have lived for 50 long years under the shackles of Andhra and Rayalseema domination and chose not to bear the oppression any longer. Read the writing on the wall Mr. Chidambaram, You and your leadership will have to acknowledge and heed to our demand for Telangana.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Where do you see the naxals and the Maoists Mr. Chidambaram, were the two lakh students who participated in the Telangana Garjana naxals, is Prof K Jayashankar, the former VC of Kakatiya University a naxalite, or are the members of the Adilabad Bar Association who staged a rasta roko at Penganga river bridge on AP-Maharashtra border Maoist infiltrators. Or is it that the members of Telangana Employees Association, acting at the naxals behest. Or are the members of the “Telangana Pensioners Joint Action Committee”, all retired Govt employees being directed by the Maoists. You Mr. Home Minster, are trying to prepare the grounds for denying the 3.5 crore people of Telangana of their right to govern themselves.
We may not be as powerful or have the money power that those who have been exploiting us like the Rajagopal’s and the Andhra land mafia. But what we have is the will, determination and the grit to carve out our state. We have lived for 50 long years under the shackles of Andhra and Rayalseema domination and chose not to bear the oppression any longer. Read the writing on the wall Mr. Chidambaram, You and your leadership will have to acknowledge and heed to our demand for Telangana.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Telangana – Breaking the media blackout
I have just seen the ad for Idea on TV, in which a person is reading the news on his mobile and the headline states “Andhra to be split”. The message of the ad was mobile applications will reduce the need for newsprint and papers, saving trees and the environment. What an idea Sirji!
So what if the Andhra and Rayalseema owned media blanks out news on the struggle for Telangana. We have the power of the internet and twitter to propagate our cause. I just ran a search for Telangana on google and it threw up over 2 million pages. There are over a 100 sites dedicated to Telangana, a thousand blogs, innumerable discussion forums and tweets. The internet is exploding with Telangana based content and the way things are going, it will soon be the most searched for word in the sub-continent. In fact, there is a page on the proposed map of the state of Telangana, on mapsofindia, India’s No.1 map site, you can see it at http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/telangana/telangana-state.html .
The Telangana detractors seem to believe that blacking out the news of Telangana, will bring an end to the struggle, they are wrong. The power of the net will help us broadcast the case for Telangana to the world. With Telangana based content being uploaded every 5 seconds, there is no way our roar for a separate state be forced to a cry in the wilderness. The struggle is taking place in full view of the world, my earnest appeal to the Telangana brothers and sisters is, keep posting and writing on the happenings in our villages, localities, districts and in Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana. We will leverage the power of the internet to propagate our news to the world.
We are determined to throw away the yoke that is Andhra Pradesh, and all of us right from school children to retired pensioners are willing to sacrifice our all for a free state.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
So what if the Andhra and Rayalseema owned media blanks out news on the struggle for Telangana. We have the power of the internet and twitter to propagate our cause. I just ran a search for Telangana on google and it threw up over 2 million pages. There are over a 100 sites dedicated to Telangana, a thousand blogs, innumerable discussion forums and tweets. The internet is exploding with Telangana based content and the way things are going, it will soon be the most searched for word in the sub-continent. In fact, there is a page on the proposed map of the state of Telangana, on mapsofindia, India’s No.1 map site, you can see it at http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/telangana/telangana-state.html .
The Telangana detractors seem to believe that blacking out the news of Telangana, will bring an end to the struggle, they are wrong. The power of the net will help us broadcast the case for Telangana to the world. With Telangana based content being uploaded every 5 seconds, there is no way our roar for a separate state be forced to a cry in the wilderness. The struggle is taking place in full view of the world, my earnest appeal to the Telangana brothers and sisters is, keep posting and writing on the happenings in our villages, localities, districts and in Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana. We will leverage the power of the internet to propagate our news to the world.
We are determined to throw away the yoke that is Andhra Pradesh, and all of us right from school children to retired pensioners are willing to sacrifice our all for a free state.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Telangana Our Dream and Destiny
The writing on the wall is clear, Telangana the 29th state of India is awaiting its birth. While we are lucky to be here when this long cherished day comes. Let us remember those who laid down their lives for Telangana, the 390 students who were shot dead and the countless others who carried aloft the Telangana flame for the last 50 years. Telangana diehards like Pratap Kishore, EV Padmanabham, Vandematram Ram Chander Rao and countless others. Pratap Kishore the founder of Telangana Praja Samiti was the ideologue who ignited the movement in 1968. Pratap Kishore as the General Secretary of the TPS kept alive the Telangana issue by organizing numerous area wise marches, meetings, and conventions in Warangal and Hyderabad. In 1987 he along with four others walked from Hyderabad to Delhi to meet Rajiv Gandhi and apprise him of the need for a separate state. A ritual which the Telangana Praja Samiti follows to date is observing November 1 as a day of mourning with fasting and prayers at the Telangana Martyrs Memorial in front of the AP assembly.
There are many unsung heroes like Pratap Kishore, who are not here today to see their lives work being fulfilled. We are the favored ones and will have to answer our children and our fathers if we falter now. Let us not let go of the momentum and keep the pressure on, there are many small ways in which we can compel the creation of Telangana state
1. Refuse to pay state tax as this is imposed by the AP Govt, which we do not recognize
2. If you are a police officer refuse to arrest or entertain complaints against Telangana demonstrators
3. If you are a government servant working in the registrars office, refuse to register any property in the name of a person other than from Telangana
4. If you are recruiting for any post in Telangana, reject any person not from Telangana
5. Make your purchases from shops and establishments that support Telangana
6. Boycott all papers and channels that fail to report on the movement for Telangana
7. And lastly let us be alert and prempt any moves by KCR to do a M.Chenna Reddy act
Telangana is ours and we shall achieve it
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
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There are many unsung heroes like Pratap Kishore, who are not here today to see their lives work being fulfilled. We are the favored ones and will have to answer our children and our fathers if we falter now. Let us not let go of the momentum and keep the pressure on, there are many small ways in which we can compel the creation of Telangana state
1. Refuse to pay state tax as this is imposed by the AP Govt, which we do not recognize
2. If you are a police officer refuse to arrest or entertain complaints against Telangana demonstrators
3. If you are a government servant working in the registrars office, refuse to register any property in the name of a person other than from Telangana
4. If you are recruiting for any post in Telangana, reject any person not from Telangana
5. Make your purchases from shops and establishments that support Telangana
6. Boycott all papers and channels that fail to report on the movement for Telangana
7. And lastly let us be alert and prempt any moves by KCR to do a M.Chenna Reddy act
Telangana is ours and we shall achieve it
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
The unstoppable Telangana juggernaut gains momentum
The outcome of the all party meeting on Telangana is but a small setback in the journey for a separate state. The talks have laid bare the ugly truth, the opposition to Telangana is the status of Hyderabad, the five centuries old capital of the region. The Andhra and Rayalseema exploiters are willing to let go of Telangana if Hyderabad is made a joint capital or a Union Territory.
All talk of a united Andhra is nothing but eyewash to keep exploiting Hyderabad. These people have in collusion with successive Andhra and Rayalseema led governments in the state illegally acquired large tracts of land in and around Hyderabad. Ramalinga Raju is the biggest example of this greed and even the powers in Delhi know the real reason behind Lagdapati’s dramabaazi, is the prospect of the Telangana Government seizing the illegal lands occupied by him.
Let the nation and our antagonists know that Telangana with its 10 districts including Hyderabad is non-negotiable. And we the people of Telangana are willing to lay down our lives for this.
Telangana Garjana was the first step in the third and final agitation for a separate state and the voice raised continues to echo across the region. I personally applaud the grit and courage shown by students of the government school in Medak who wrote “Jai Telangana” on the answer sheets and handed it over to the teachers without writing the half-yearly examinations. The elders are not to be left behind people in their 60’s and 70’s from the Telangana Retired Employees, Teachers and Workers’ Welfare Mission, have resolved to actively participate in the separatist agitation till a State is achieved.
When the will of the people is with us can Telangana state be far behind.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
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http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
All talk of a united Andhra is nothing but eyewash to keep exploiting Hyderabad. These people have in collusion with successive Andhra and Rayalseema led governments in the state illegally acquired large tracts of land in and around Hyderabad. Ramalinga Raju is the biggest example of this greed and even the powers in Delhi know the real reason behind Lagdapati’s dramabaazi, is the prospect of the Telangana Government seizing the illegal lands occupied by him.
Let the nation and our antagonists know that Telangana with its 10 districts including Hyderabad is non-negotiable. And we the people of Telangana are willing to lay down our lives for this.
Telangana Garjana was the first step in the third and final agitation for a separate state and the voice raised continues to echo across the region. I personally applaud the grit and courage shown by students of the government school in Medak who wrote “Jai Telangana” on the answer sheets and handed it over to the teachers without writing the half-yearly examinations. The elders are not to be left behind people in their 60’s and 70’s from the Telangana Retired Employees, Teachers and Workers’ Welfare Mission, have resolved to actively participate in the separatist agitation till a State is achieved.
When the will of the people is with us can Telangana state be far behind.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
The unstoppable Telangana juggernaut gains momentum
The outcome of the all party meeting on Telangana is but a small setback in the journey for a separate state. The talks have laid bare the ugly truth, the opposition to Telangana is the status of Hyderabad, the five centuries old capital of the region. The Andhra and Rayalseema exploiters are willing to let go of Telangana if Hyderabad is made a joint capital or a Union Territory.
All talk of a united Andhra is nothing but eyewash to keep exploiting Hyderabad. These people have in collusion with successive Andhra and Rayalseema led governments in the state illegally acquired large tracts of land in and around Hyderabad. Ramalinga Raju is the biggest example of this greed and even the powers in Delhi know the real reason behind Lagdapati’s dramabaazi, is the prospect of the Telangana Government seizing the illegal lands occupied by him.
Let the nation and our antagonists know that Telangana with its 10 districts including Hyderabad is non-negotiable. And we the people of Telangana are willing to lay down our lives for this.
Telangana Garjana was the first step in the third and final agitation for a separate state and the voice raised continues to echo across the region. I personally applaud the grit and courage shown by students of the government school in Medak who wrote “Jai Telangana” on the answer sheets and handed it over to the teachers without writing the half-yearly examinations. The elders are not to be left behind people in their 60’s and 70’s from the Telangana Retired Employees, Teachers and Workers’ Welfare Mission, have resolved to actively participate in the separatist agitation till a State is achieved.
When the will of the people is with us can Telangana state be far behind.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
All talk of a united Andhra is nothing but eyewash to keep exploiting Hyderabad. These people have in collusion with successive Andhra and Rayalseema led governments in the state illegally acquired large tracts of land in and around Hyderabad. Ramalinga Raju is the biggest example of this greed and even the powers in Delhi know the real reason behind Lagdapati’s dramabaazi, is the prospect of the Telangana Government seizing the illegal lands occupied by him.
Let the nation and our antagonists know that Telangana with its 10 districts including Hyderabad is non-negotiable. And we the people of Telangana are willing to lay down our lives for this.
Telangana Garjana was the first step in the third and final agitation for a separate state and the voice raised continues to echo across the region. I personally applaud the grit and courage shown by students of the government school in Medak who wrote “Jai Telangana” on the answer sheets and handed it over to the teachers without writing the half-yearly examinations. The elders are not to be left behind people in their 60’s and 70’s from the Telangana Retired Employees, Teachers and Workers’ Welfare Mission, have resolved to actively participate in the separatist agitation till a State is achieved.
When the will of the people is with us can Telangana state be far behind.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
Monday, January 4, 2010
Towards Achieving Telangana State
The outcome of the all party meeting on Telangana, called by the Home Minsiter on 5 January 2010, is a foregone conclusion. The BJP is known for ditching the Telangana people, they did it in 1969 and will repeat their stance as evidenced by the statements of their party leaders. The congress has in its characteristic fashion left all to Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, and we have seen P Chidambaram take one step forward and two backward on the issue. This leaves TRS, which is prone to selling itself for a morsel of chewed up power and a few gold coins. TDP and PRP are anti-Telagana and the CPI and MIM are sitting on the fence. So whatever happens tomorrow the status quo will remain.
This leaves the issue of self determination to the people of Telangana, and rightly so. The demand for a separate state is the Voice of 2 Crore People and we have to fight to make it heard and acted upon. The future of 2 crore Indians is too precious to be left to the political parties who have shown time and again that they can change ships in the blink of an eye.
So what do we do to achieve a separate state, Telangana State will become a reality when we endanger the existence of all political parties opposed to the Telangana state and show the aggressors that the region can no longer be exploited. We can do this in several ways
1. If your MLA/MP is against Telangana State write a letter to the speaker of the assembly/lok sabha informing him/her that the people of the constituency have no faith in the elected representative and that he/she no longer represents the constituency
2. Each of us should write a post card to the President of India, the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi demanding Telangana State
3. In giving our address write Telangana and not Andhra Pradesh
4. Prevail upon the Andhras and Rayalseema people we know to support Telangana State and if they do not do so boycott them. This treatment should be meted out to all who oppose Telangana state
5. As far as possible do not patronize shops and business establishments owned by Andhras and Rayalseema people
6. Do not let out your premises to the Andhras and Rayalseema people and if you have them as tenants politely ask to vacate your premises immediately
Remember the future of our children and the next will depend on what we do today.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
This leaves the issue of self determination to the people of Telangana, and rightly so. The demand for a separate state is the Voice of 2 Crore People and we have to fight to make it heard and acted upon. The future of 2 crore Indians is too precious to be left to the political parties who have shown time and again that they can change ships in the blink of an eye.
So what do we do to achieve a separate state, Telangana State will become a reality when we endanger the existence of all political parties opposed to the Telangana state and show the aggressors that the region can no longer be exploited. We can do this in several ways
1. If your MLA/MP is against Telangana State write a letter to the speaker of the assembly/lok sabha informing him/her that the people of the constituency have no faith in the elected representative and that he/she no longer represents the constituency
2. Each of us should write a post card to the President of India, the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi demanding Telangana State
3. In giving our address write Telangana and not Andhra Pradesh
4. Prevail upon the Andhras and Rayalseema people we know to support Telangana State and if they do not do so boycott them. This treatment should be meted out to all who oppose Telangana state
5. As far as possible do not patronize shops and business establishments owned by Andhras and Rayalseema people
6. Do not let out your premises to the Andhras and Rayalseema people and if you have them as tenants politely ask to vacate your premises immediately
Remember the future of our children and the next will depend on what we do today.
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
www.twitter.com/kishoreneera
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Telangana State – justice for over 2 crore people
Formation of Telangana state, a long pending item on the national agenda, is the cherished desire of the Telangana people to deliver unto themselves the fruits of freedom and to ensure for themselves social, economic and political justice as enshrined in the constitution.
Formation of Telangana State is in the larger national interests as it is dangerous for the nation to have more than two crore frustrated, oppressed and suppressed people in the belly of India. This continues to manifest itself with the youth of the region falling like nine pins to the philosophy of violent extremism and fundamentalism.
As Telangana and its people continue to suffer in Andhra Pradesh the only solution to this humane problem is to form a separate Telangana state. That the merger of Telangana with the Andhra State was against all cannons of wisdom is evident from the fact that even after 53 years there is no emotional integration between the Telangana and Andhra people.
The Gentlemen’s Agreement signed by the leaders of Andhra and Telangana to bring about formation of Andhra Pradesh offered safeguards to the Telangana region and its people. This agreement has been treated as a scrap of paper by subsequent Governments both at the Centre and in the State. The Government of India was a guarantor to the Gentlemen’s agreement yet it too failed to protect the interests of the Telangana people who too are Indians. Today, the time has come for the Government of India to redeem itself and see that finally justice is done to the over 2 crore Telangana people.
For us, over 2 crore Telangana people, it is now “Do or Die”, we have suffered for the last half century and will no longer listen to platitudes and promises. Telangana State is non-negotiable, we will not settle for anything less than Telangana State.
And let us this time round not leave the destiny of over two crore Indians to the political parties which have time stabbed us in the back for the proverbial forty pieces of silver. Let us unite and keep the momentum of the movement till the Government at the Centre promises a date for the formation the Telangana State. Any laxity on our part and we will subjugate our future generations to continued exploitation, subjugation and rape at the hands of the Andhra’s
Remember “Telangana State is non-negotiable”
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
Formation of Telangana State is in the larger national interests as it is dangerous for the nation to have more than two crore frustrated, oppressed and suppressed people in the belly of India. This continues to manifest itself with the youth of the region falling like nine pins to the philosophy of violent extremism and fundamentalism.
As Telangana and its people continue to suffer in Andhra Pradesh the only solution to this humane problem is to form a separate Telangana state. That the merger of Telangana with the Andhra State was against all cannons of wisdom is evident from the fact that even after 53 years there is no emotional integration between the Telangana and Andhra people.
The Gentlemen’s Agreement signed by the leaders of Andhra and Telangana to bring about formation of Andhra Pradesh offered safeguards to the Telangana region and its people. This agreement has been treated as a scrap of paper by subsequent Governments both at the Centre and in the State. The Government of India was a guarantor to the Gentlemen’s agreement yet it too failed to protect the interests of the Telangana people who too are Indians. Today, the time has come for the Government of India to redeem itself and see that finally justice is done to the over 2 crore Telangana people.
For us, over 2 crore Telangana people, it is now “Do or Die”, we have suffered for the last half century and will no longer listen to platitudes and promises. Telangana State is non-negotiable, we will not settle for anything less than Telangana State.
And let us this time round not leave the destiny of over two crore Indians to the political parties which have time stabbed us in the back for the proverbial forty pieces of silver. Let us unite and keep the momentum of the movement till the Government at the Centre promises a date for the formation the Telangana State. Any laxity on our part and we will subjugate our future generations to continued exploitation, subjugation and rape at the hands of the Andhra’s
Remember “Telangana State is non-negotiable”
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
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