The city of Hyderabad has for the last few days been racked by communal clashes. The peace loving people of Hyderabad have been thrown into communal strife after a lapse of nearly two decades of peace. In the past, there has always been a visible emotionally charged trigger that set off these violent incidents, starting with the Rameezabi case in the late 70’s to the Babri Masjid demolition in the early 90’s. This time round there has been no trigger for the spate of senseless violence that the city is witnessing.
There were indications emanating from several quarters that were indicative of the coming violence for the last fortnight. The ground was being carefully prepared to create a situation whereby the Telangana struggle could be relegated to the back pages of the dailies prior to receiving a quiet burial by the Sri Krishna Commission. The first sign of this came from Lagdapati, the voice of the anti Telangana lobby, he made a statement last week in Vijayawada prophesizing the city of Hyderabad will be besieged by anti National forces if Telangana is formed. And within a fortnight the city of Hyderabad is afflicted by a communal fire that started with no visible and understandable reason.
The current flare-up of communal passions has been planned with precision and perfect timing. The people of the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad from both communities are surprised at the violent turn of trivial incidents, which no one could foresee. All this points to an outside hand, and to know who is behind this carnage of a peaceful city, we need only follow the benefits trail. The immediate fallout of the current situation is the issue of Telangana’s statehood, which has been relegated to the back ground, and this benefits the Telangana detractors. It is upto to us the people of Hyderabad to see to it that the nefarious intentions of these anti social elements are defeated.
It is my earnest appeal to our Brothers and Sisters in Hyderabad do not fall into the clutches of our common enemy and fall prey to his machinations. Our enemy are the people who are opposed to our State of Telangana. He is both ruthless and cunning to pit one brother against the other. Let us stand united in this hour of need of our beloved city, Hyderabad. Like the British our detractors plan on dividing us to continue with their tyranny over our region. Remember we have a higher cause calling us, the liberation of our motherland from the clutches of these Seemandhra usurpers. And we can achieve it only if we stand united and turn a deaf ear to the words of these serpents. For if today we fall prey to his insinuations, we will lose our city and our state of Telangana forever.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
The Glorious History of Telangana Submerged Under Government Apathy
Telangana has a rich history of 3000 years, and this can be seen in the ruins that dot the districts of Warangal, Hyderabad and Nalgonda. The tourism potential of Telangana is immense, it is bestowed with a bounty of cultural and religious relics and natural landscapes for adventure sports. Alas, none of this has been advertised and publicized till date. For the successive Seemandhra Government’s, tourism ministers the tourist potential in Telangana started with the Charminar and ended with the pearls in Hyderabad, with a minor mentions of the Warangal fort and Salarjung Museum. Contrast, this with the way Vishakapatnam has been touted as a must visit tourist spot in Andhra Pradesh with its Arukku valley and Borra Caves.
In the last few decades the number of tourists visiting Vishakapatnam, Vijayawada, and Chittor has increased at more than double the rate for Warangal and Nalgonda combined. Warangal has a rich tapestry of historical relics, the architectural marvel of the 1000 pillar temple, the Warangal fort, and the beauty of the stone carvings in Ramappa temple, it has the potential to attract both foreign and domestic tourists. How many people in the country know of Nagarjuna Sagar Konda? It is a manifestation of mans efforts to save his history and provide for water security of his progeny. It can with a little effort be integrated into the Buddhist circuit, resulting in attracting the hordes of Buddhist pilgrims. Promoting tourism in Telangana, would have enriched the State and provided a decent standard of living to its citizens. But, this subject has never even been brought up by successive Seemandhra Governments of AP. Forget investing in the tourism potential of the Telangana region, the Andhra Government is hell bent on destroying the very edifices that can earn revenue for the State of Telangana.
The Government in its haste to develop the connectivity to Vijayawada, has gone ahead with starting work on building a 4 lane highway connecting it to Hyderabad. This Highway will wipe out 26 historically significant archeological monuments. Beginning with the ‘kos minars' or milestones from the Qutub Shahi dynasty, Chalukyan and Kakatiya period temples, mosques from the Mughal era, which can be creatively packaged and sold as a “Highway Tourism Project” will be turned to dust. Most important of all, there’s a 13th century Shiva temple from the Kakatiya period, located just before Chityal, in Warangal having a ‘garba gruha', ‘arthamandapa', ‘maha mandapa' and a four-pillared ‘Nandi mandapa', a part of the temple is buried under the existing road, and needs to be excavated. The government instead of saving this monument is intent on burying it still deeper into eternity by running a bull dozer over it.
I have seen places in India and abroad with far less to see but packaged as the ultimate destinations for travelers looking at a flavor of ancient culture. Tourism in Telangana, is never been a subject of debate or interest, but it can bring undreamed of prosperity to a State, witness Rajasthan, Kerala and now Gujarat. However, these states have been promoted by their leaders, none of them have been crushed into the dust like the history and culture of Telangana.
Tourism for Telangana the 29th state of India, will be one of the main sources of revenue, and it is incumbent upon us to safe guard our monuments and heritage, and force the abandonment of this Hyderabad-Vijayawada 4 lane highway.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
In the last few decades the number of tourists visiting Vishakapatnam, Vijayawada, and Chittor has increased at more than double the rate for Warangal and Nalgonda combined. Warangal has a rich tapestry of historical relics, the architectural marvel of the 1000 pillar temple, the Warangal fort, and the beauty of the stone carvings in Ramappa temple, it has the potential to attract both foreign and domestic tourists. How many people in the country know of Nagarjuna Sagar Konda? It is a manifestation of mans efforts to save his history and provide for water security of his progeny. It can with a little effort be integrated into the Buddhist circuit, resulting in attracting the hordes of Buddhist pilgrims. Promoting tourism in Telangana, would have enriched the State and provided a decent standard of living to its citizens. But, this subject has never even been brought up by successive Seemandhra Governments of AP. Forget investing in the tourism potential of the Telangana region, the Andhra Government is hell bent on destroying the very edifices that can earn revenue for the State of Telangana.
The Government in its haste to develop the connectivity to Vijayawada, has gone ahead with starting work on building a 4 lane highway connecting it to Hyderabad. This Highway will wipe out 26 historically significant archeological monuments. Beginning with the ‘kos minars' or milestones from the Qutub Shahi dynasty, Chalukyan and Kakatiya period temples, mosques from the Mughal era, which can be creatively packaged and sold as a “Highway Tourism Project” will be turned to dust. Most important of all, there’s a 13th century Shiva temple from the Kakatiya period, located just before Chityal, in Warangal having a ‘garba gruha', ‘arthamandapa', ‘maha mandapa' and a four-pillared ‘Nandi mandapa', a part of the temple is buried under the existing road, and needs to be excavated. The government instead of saving this monument is intent on burying it still deeper into eternity by running a bull dozer over it.
I have seen places in India and abroad with far less to see but packaged as the ultimate destinations for travelers looking at a flavor of ancient culture. Tourism in Telangana, is never been a subject of debate or interest, but it can bring undreamed of prosperity to a State, witness Rajasthan, Kerala and now Gujarat. However, these states have been promoted by their leaders, none of them have been crushed into the dust like the history and culture of Telangana.
Tourism for Telangana the 29th state of India, will be one of the main sources of revenue, and it is incumbent upon us to safe guard our monuments and heritage, and force the abandonment of this Hyderabad-Vijayawada 4 lane highway.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Where Have all the Industries of Telangana Gone
The history of Telangana from the period of the Satavahanas, to the Asaf Jahi’s is dotted with the benevolence of its rulers. Each dynasty which ruled over the region enriched its culture and the lives of its citizens. However, since the forcible merger of the Telangana nee Hyderabad state with the Andhra region, there has been a drastic reversal in fortunes of its citizens. Successive Andhra and Rayalseema regimes have reduced a once prosperous people to a pile of bones and skin, who commit suicide at the prospect of facing another year of failed crops.
The people of Telangana have since the merger of the state with Andhra districts of erstwhile Madras state, have been progressively marginalized, their lands have been made barren by diverting their rightful share of waters to the verdant fields of Seema Andhra region. The factories where its workers earned their livelihood have been systematically run down to sickness, sold off and the factory lands converted to sprawling colonies for the settlers.
In 1956, when Telangana state (Hyderabad state) was merged to form Andhra Pradesh, the region was a buzz of activity with several large thriving industries, chief among which were the Azam Jahi Mills, Nizam Sugar Factory, DBR Mills, Sirpur Sir Silk Mills, Deccan Glass factory, Praga Tools, Soda factory, Iron factory , Firangula factory, and the Antargam spinning mills. These factories collectively employed over 1,00,000 workers in Telangana. Save for the lone Praga Tools which is alive today all the others have been meticulously nurtured to sickness and closure. There is a single story that binds the closure of these industries and loss of livelihood of thousands of Telangana workers, it is a story of Government apathy, systematic ruin of a thriving industry, followed by a distress sale to Seemandhra businessmen, who later converted the industrial land into housing colonies.
The Nizam Sugar Factory in Bodhan was at one time Asia’s biggest sugar factory. During the time of Nizam the Sugar Factory's holdings included over 1,600 square kilometres of land, 14 village camps and Hospital. Other services that were provided for the children of employees included a high school, junior and degree colleges. The factory was managed into sickness by the cadre which was primarily deputed from the Andhra region. It was finally sold at a throw away price to Gokaraju Rangaraju from W.Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.
The story of the Azam Jahi Mills is similar, this was established in Warangal during Nizams rule and provided livelihood to about 15000 people in Warangal. It was also managed to sickness, closed down and the Mills lands sold as real estate under YSR. A housing colony is being built on this prime land in the heart of Warangal.
Contrast this with the Seemandhra Government’s patronage and wholeheartedness in reviving the sick Vizag Steel Plant at a cost of 1,500 crores. It would have taken this amount to revive all the 8 industries in Telangana, and saved the livelihood of over a lack of people. But, this would not have suited the Seemandhra game plan, whose mission has always been to plunder and deprive the people of Telangana of their right to livelihood. The people of Rayalseema and Andhra have prospered by exploiting the people of Telangana, and the only way ahead for the state of Telangana to prosper is to break free of these Seemandhra clutches.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
The people of Telangana have since the merger of the state with Andhra districts of erstwhile Madras state, have been progressively marginalized, their lands have been made barren by diverting their rightful share of waters to the verdant fields of Seema Andhra region. The factories where its workers earned their livelihood have been systematically run down to sickness, sold off and the factory lands converted to sprawling colonies for the settlers.
In 1956, when Telangana state (Hyderabad state) was merged to form Andhra Pradesh, the region was a buzz of activity with several large thriving industries, chief among which were the Azam Jahi Mills, Nizam Sugar Factory, DBR Mills, Sirpur Sir Silk Mills, Deccan Glass factory, Praga Tools, Soda factory, Iron factory , Firangula factory, and the Antargam spinning mills. These factories collectively employed over 1,00,000 workers in Telangana. Save for the lone Praga Tools which is alive today all the others have been meticulously nurtured to sickness and closure. There is a single story that binds the closure of these industries and loss of livelihood of thousands of Telangana workers, it is a story of Government apathy, systematic ruin of a thriving industry, followed by a distress sale to Seemandhra businessmen, who later converted the industrial land into housing colonies.
The Nizam Sugar Factory in Bodhan was at one time Asia’s biggest sugar factory. During the time of Nizam the Sugar Factory's holdings included over 1,600 square kilometres of land, 14 village camps and Hospital. Other services that were provided for the children of employees included a high school, junior and degree colleges. The factory was managed into sickness by the cadre which was primarily deputed from the Andhra region. It was finally sold at a throw away price to Gokaraju Rangaraju from W.Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.
The story of the Azam Jahi Mills is similar, this was established in Warangal during Nizams rule and provided livelihood to about 15000 people in Warangal. It was also managed to sickness, closed down and the Mills lands sold as real estate under YSR. A housing colony is being built on this prime land in the heart of Warangal.
Contrast this with the Seemandhra Government’s patronage and wholeheartedness in reviving the sick Vizag Steel Plant at a cost of 1,500 crores. It would have taken this amount to revive all the 8 industries in Telangana, and saved the livelihood of over a lack of people. But, this would not have suited the Seemandhra game plan, whose mission has always been to plunder and deprive the people of Telangana of their right to livelihood. The people of Rayalseema and Andhra have prospered by exploiting the people of Telangana, and the only way ahead for the state of Telangana to prosper is to break free of these Seemandhra clutches.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Seemandhra Settlers can Never Belong to Hyderabad
The city of Hyderabad is known for its tolerant attitude and composite culture. This is a culture that is a result of the interactions and amalgamations of many peoples, languages and their ways of living. Hyderabad has a history of more than 400 years, and is popularly referred to as the “ganga-jumna tehzeeb”, whose literal translation means an amalgamation of all cultures.
For nearly 350 years from the time Sultan Muhammad Quli swam across the river Musi to meet his beloved Bhagmati who he later married and named Hyder Mahal, and founded the city of Hyderabad as a token of his love, the city was nurtured by all who came the Hindus and Muslims, Armenians, Anglo-Indians, Parsis, Shias from Uttar Pradesh and Sikhs and Punjab. While it was the administrative skills of the North Indians that made Hyderabad the most well governed of all princely states. It was the genius of Ali Nawaz Jung, an engineer in the Nizam’s Government who prepared a comprehensive water resources development plan under which several medium sized irrigation projects were undertaken, notable among them being Pocharam, Dindi, Palair, Wyra, Manair and anicuts at Ghanpur on Manjira and Khanapur on Godavari. These water reservoirs were till the 1950’s supplying ample amount of water to the Telangana region.
Since the 1950’s, the city of Hyderabad has seen a reversal of fortune, with those coming to the city from the Seema and Andhra regions, coming to pillage and the city and its people of their prosperity and livelihood. From a life of abundance the people of Hyderabad were reduced to paupers in their own home.
For these people, Hyderabad was the proverbial el dorado, they came they pillaged and continue to plunder. Industries set up by the Nizam to fuel the growth of the region were systematically run down by successive Andhra and Rayalseema regimes, and the lands belonging to these industries sold for their real estate value. Prime examples of this are the Azam Jahi Mills and the Nizam Sugar Factory. Not only did this deprive the state of its revenues but also caused the loss of livelihood to families of over 15,000 workers in Azam Jahi Mills and 10,000 workers in Nizam Sugar Factory.
At the root of this are the returns on investment to be got from Real estate. This story is repeated in the development of the Greater Hyderabad region, large tracts of land were acquired from the Natives, under threat of Government acquisition. Fearing their lands will be acquired by the Government for paltry sums, the Natives sold their lands to these settlers at throw away rates, and once this acquisition was completed the Government notice was annulled. This daylight robbery was a well thought out and executed with the collusion of the Seema Andhra led political regime in the State, the Government Officers and the businessmen.
These carpet baggers from Seema and Andhra made their pile of money by grasping and selling Hyderabad’s lands and invested the money in their own districts. Had there not been a slump in the real estate market, these people would have sold off their ill acquired lands and scooted back to their own districts. It is precisely because of this attitude of pillage and run why these Andhra and Seema settlers can never belong to Hyderabad and Telangana.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
For nearly 350 years from the time Sultan Muhammad Quli swam across the river Musi to meet his beloved Bhagmati who he later married and named Hyder Mahal, and founded the city of Hyderabad as a token of his love, the city was nurtured by all who came the Hindus and Muslims, Armenians, Anglo-Indians, Parsis, Shias from Uttar Pradesh and Sikhs and Punjab. While it was the administrative skills of the North Indians that made Hyderabad the most well governed of all princely states. It was the genius of Ali Nawaz Jung, an engineer in the Nizam’s Government who prepared a comprehensive water resources development plan under which several medium sized irrigation projects were undertaken, notable among them being Pocharam, Dindi, Palair, Wyra, Manair and anicuts at Ghanpur on Manjira and Khanapur on Godavari. These water reservoirs were till the 1950’s supplying ample amount of water to the Telangana region.
Since the 1950’s, the city of Hyderabad has seen a reversal of fortune, with those coming to the city from the Seema and Andhra regions, coming to pillage and the city and its people of their prosperity and livelihood. From a life of abundance the people of Hyderabad were reduced to paupers in their own home.
For these people, Hyderabad was the proverbial el dorado, they came they pillaged and continue to plunder. Industries set up by the Nizam to fuel the growth of the region were systematically run down by successive Andhra and Rayalseema regimes, and the lands belonging to these industries sold for their real estate value. Prime examples of this are the Azam Jahi Mills and the Nizam Sugar Factory. Not only did this deprive the state of its revenues but also caused the loss of livelihood to families of over 15,000 workers in Azam Jahi Mills and 10,000 workers in Nizam Sugar Factory.
At the root of this are the returns on investment to be got from Real estate. This story is repeated in the development of the Greater Hyderabad region, large tracts of land were acquired from the Natives, under threat of Government acquisition. Fearing their lands will be acquired by the Government for paltry sums, the Natives sold their lands to these settlers at throw away rates, and once this acquisition was completed the Government notice was annulled. This daylight robbery was a well thought out and executed with the collusion of the Seema Andhra led political regime in the State, the Government Officers and the businessmen.
These carpet baggers from Seema and Andhra made their pile of money by grasping and selling Hyderabad’s lands and invested the money in their own districts. Had there not been a slump in the real estate market, these people would have sold off their ill acquired lands and scooted back to their own districts. It is precisely because of this attitude of pillage and run why these Andhra and Seema settlers can never belong to Hyderabad and Telangana.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Keep Your Eyes Open to Avoid Being Short Changed by the Dubious Duo D. Prasad Rao and V. Vasanth Kumar
The AP Government has appointed a cabinet sub-committee headed by Revenue Minister D. Prasada Rao to work out the modalities for allotment of government and private land for cultivation to self-help groups of women on lease. The other committee members include Ministers N. Raghuveera Reddy (Agriculture) and V. Vasanth Kumar (Rural Development).
This committee was constituted last week as a follow-up action in tune with the decision taken by the Cabinet at its meeting on March 6 which cleared a draft of a bill for leasing out Government and Private Land to group of women members of the self-help groups for a period five years for developing such lands under government schemes. The period of the lease will be 5 years.
All’s good so far, the intentions are laudable but we know that Telangana women will be the last to benefit from these allotments. We the people of Telangana need to keep a hawk’s eye on the allotment of these land leases and ensure the self help groups from Telangana are awarded their rightful share of the land. If one goes by the origin and history of these members of the committee, there is no way Telangana women can get a just share of the allotment. The antecedents of Raghuveera and V. Vasanth Kumar are indicative of the injustice that will be meted out to our people, if we are not alert. Raghuveera is a die hard Andhrite from Ananthpur while V. Vasanth Kumar, the Ungutur MLA has been quiet vocal on his propagation of anti-Telangana people. Just the other day, Vasanth Kumar, was speaking about launching a signature campaign in favor of the Polavaram project, which if completed will bring desolation and ruin to the Khammam district of Telangana. That these people will brazen out any venture that benefits the Seema Andhra populace at the expense of Telangana is a moot point and has been proven many times over.
We the people of Telangana, right from the people working in the revenue and land records, to the Zilla Parishad and the representatives in the State Assembly, need to keep a tight check on the allotment of these lands, we not only need to ensure the Women of Telangana get an equitable share but also that these allotted lands are viable. If left to these Seemandhra representatives the lion’s share of the allotment will go to women from the Seema Andhra regions, while Telangana women are awarded a minuscule share of the allotments and the type of land allotted to the Telangana women will be arid, non-cultivable and a burden on an already challenged people.
We have to keep our fight alive on all fronts and not give a moments respite to the Seemandhra leaders. For if we relax our vigil by even a few degrees the loss will be immeasurable. We need to remember that Telangana will be a reality once these settlers from Andhra and Rayalseema realize that they can no longer subjugate Telangana at will.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
This committee was constituted last week as a follow-up action in tune with the decision taken by the Cabinet at its meeting on March 6 which cleared a draft of a bill for leasing out Government and Private Land to group of women members of the self-help groups for a period five years for developing such lands under government schemes. The period of the lease will be 5 years.
All’s good so far, the intentions are laudable but we know that Telangana women will be the last to benefit from these allotments. We the people of Telangana need to keep a hawk’s eye on the allotment of these land leases and ensure the self help groups from Telangana are awarded their rightful share of the land. If one goes by the origin and history of these members of the committee, there is no way Telangana women can get a just share of the allotment. The antecedents of Raghuveera and V. Vasanth Kumar are indicative of the injustice that will be meted out to our people, if we are not alert. Raghuveera is a die hard Andhrite from Ananthpur while V. Vasanth Kumar, the Ungutur MLA has been quiet vocal on his propagation of anti-Telangana people. Just the other day, Vasanth Kumar, was speaking about launching a signature campaign in favor of the Polavaram project, which if completed will bring desolation and ruin to the Khammam district of Telangana. That these people will brazen out any venture that benefits the Seema Andhra populace at the expense of Telangana is a moot point and has been proven many times over.
We the people of Telangana, right from the people working in the revenue and land records, to the Zilla Parishad and the representatives in the State Assembly, need to keep a tight check on the allotment of these lands, we not only need to ensure the Women of Telangana get an equitable share but also that these allotted lands are viable. If left to these Seemandhra representatives the lion’s share of the allotment will go to women from the Seema Andhra regions, while Telangana women are awarded a minuscule share of the allotments and the type of land allotted to the Telangana women will be arid, non-cultivable and a burden on an already challenged people.
We have to keep our fight alive on all fronts and not give a moments respite to the Seemandhra leaders. For if we relax our vigil by even a few degrees the loss will be immeasurable. We need to remember that Telangana will be a reality once these settlers from Andhra and Rayalseema realize that they can no longer subjugate Telangana at will.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Friday, March 19, 2010
Polavaram and the Relentless Plunder of Telangana
Even as the state is caught in the throes of separation, and the youth of Telangana commit suicide in desperation at the deafening silence of the Center’s response to the 3.5 crore Indians cry for justice and deliverance, the aggressors and rapists of Telangana continue to plunder at region.
Polavarum, or rather the Indira Sagar project is relentlessly being pushed across by the Andhra leaders. It is the clinching evidence that will nail the lies on why these Andhra’s object to the Telangana state. The Polavarum project will sacrifice over 200 villages of Khammam district to irrigate and enrich the Andhra fields in Godavari, Krishna and Vizag districts and as a bonus provide drinking water to the city of Vizag and a continuous supply of water to the Vizag Steel Plant. This scourge of Telangana, called Polavaram will bring desolation and despair to over 2,00,000 Telangana people by submerging their lands and indirectly affect the livelihood and future of another 10,00,000 people living in the upstream areas.
Polavaram is an example of the impunity and callousness with which Telangana and its people have been systematically stripped of their basic human rights of right to livelihood and right to own property. The Polavarum project will submerge over 200 villages in Khammam and aggravate the misery of the Telangana farmers upstream. The dam created from the Polavaram barrage will reach 145 Kms upstream and prevent Dummugudem hydropower to generate power as planned. Dummugudem provides power for Devadula (Chokka Rao) lift irrigation scheme that will supply water to the drought prone Telangana areas. Polavaram will not only impoverish the fragile livelihood of the people living in the Dams area, but will also snuff out the life of the regions serviced by the Devadula project. That the Andhra Government with the Center blessings plans to go ahead with creating this monster that will make the already obese child, the Andhra farmers still more obese by feeding it with the food of the undernourished child the Tealangana farmers, shows the step motherly treatment the people of Telangana have been receiving for the last 50 years.
The AP Government is trying to sweeten the Polavarum project for Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, each of them will get 1.5 TMC and 5 TMC of water respectively, as well as the right to use the waterways for transportation at lower rates. While these modalities of recompensing the other states are being worked out. No such relief will be available to the Telangana region, as it is still an occupied territory within the Seemandhra grasp. It is a sorry state of affairs that in this Nation of ours not a voice is raised against this planned Government sanctioned rape of a region.
Against this back drop, the congress MLA’s from the coastal region led by the Ungutur MLA, V. Vasanth Kumar have embarked on a public awareness campaign to educate people on the benefits of the project. These people also plan on a signature campaign in Visakhapatnam, East and West Godavari and Krishna districts, to mobilize people against the "anti-Polavaram forces". Pray, can anyone tell me how you can raise public awareness and educate people on a project that will annihilate the lives of 3.5 lakh people. Hitler could surely have learnt a few lessons from these Andhra Nazi’s on how to kill an entire region and race in full view of the world, and with the benign blessings of the Central Leadership.
If the Nation does not wake up to the tragedy of Telangana today and see that the region is set free from the Seemandhra clutches, tomorrow it may be too late. Today we plead for a separate state heed our cry for justice, do not let your silence push us to a state confrontation. Decide now whether you want Telangana in peace or with blood on your hands.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind.
Read more at
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
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Polavarum, or rather the Indira Sagar project is relentlessly being pushed across by the Andhra leaders. It is the clinching evidence that will nail the lies on why these Andhra’s object to the Telangana state. The Polavarum project will sacrifice over 200 villages of Khammam district to irrigate and enrich the Andhra fields in Godavari, Krishna and Vizag districts and as a bonus provide drinking water to the city of Vizag and a continuous supply of water to the Vizag Steel Plant. This scourge of Telangana, called Polavaram will bring desolation and despair to over 2,00,000 Telangana people by submerging their lands and indirectly affect the livelihood and future of another 10,00,000 people living in the upstream areas.
Polavaram is an example of the impunity and callousness with which Telangana and its people have been systematically stripped of their basic human rights of right to livelihood and right to own property. The Polavarum project will submerge over 200 villages in Khammam and aggravate the misery of the Telangana farmers upstream. The dam created from the Polavaram barrage will reach 145 Kms upstream and prevent Dummugudem hydropower to generate power as planned. Dummugudem provides power for Devadula (Chokka Rao) lift irrigation scheme that will supply water to the drought prone Telangana areas. Polavaram will not only impoverish the fragile livelihood of the people living in the Dams area, but will also snuff out the life of the regions serviced by the Devadula project. That the Andhra Government with the Center blessings plans to go ahead with creating this monster that will make the already obese child, the Andhra farmers still more obese by feeding it with the food of the undernourished child the Tealangana farmers, shows the step motherly treatment the people of Telangana have been receiving for the last 50 years.
The AP Government is trying to sweeten the Polavarum project for Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, each of them will get 1.5 TMC and 5 TMC of water respectively, as well as the right to use the waterways for transportation at lower rates. While these modalities of recompensing the other states are being worked out. No such relief will be available to the Telangana region, as it is still an occupied territory within the Seemandhra grasp. It is a sorry state of affairs that in this Nation of ours not a voice is raised against this planned Government sanctioned rape of a region.
Against this back drop, the congress MLA’s from the coastal region led by the Ungutur MLA, V. Vasanth Kumar have embarked on a public awareness campaign to educate people on the benefits of the project. These people also plan on a signature campaign in Visakhapatnam, East and West Godavari and Krishna districts, to mobilize people against the "anti-Polavaram forces". Pray, can anyone tell me how you can raise public awareness and educate people on a project that will annihilate the lives of 3.5 lakh people. Hitler could surely have learnt a few lessons from these Andhra Nazi’s on how to kill an entire region and race in full view of the world, and with the benign blessings of the Central Leadership.
If the Nation does not wake up to the tragedy of Telangana today and see that the region is set free from the Seemandhra clutches, tomorrow it may be too late. Today we plead for a separate state heed our cry for justice, do not let your silence push us to a state confrontation. Decide now whether you want Telangana in peace or with blood on your hands.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Beware of Seemandhra’s Machinations
Not a day passes without the heinous intentions of the Seemandhra people being laid bare. The latest illustration of their malafide intentions was given by D. Siva Ramulu Naidu, a retired Executive Engineer with the Irrigation and Power department, in his representation to the time pass Sri Krishna Commission, he appealed that all four regions of the state viz Coastal Andhra, Telangana, Greater Hyderabad and Rayalaseema be given a Deputy Chief Minister each to look after the needs of their respective territories. Look at the maliciousness of the words, this man has shamelessly delinked Greater Hyderabad from Telangana, either he is insane or is so sunk in greed and lust that he has the guts to say Greater Hyderabad is a separate region . These Andhra’s are so morally corrupt as to sever a mothers body and trade in her vital organs. The levels to which they are willing to stoop to keep Hyderabad and its modesty within their lecherous grasp is beyond human decency.
We have been saying time and again that these Seemandhra rapists have set their lustful filled eyes on Hyderabad, that too on Greater Hyderabad, and no points for guessing the reasons. These elements have acquired large tracts of land around Hyderabad, mostly Government land at throw away prices, and it is the fear of having these illegally acquired lands being investigated and seized by the Government of Telangana that is behind all this dramabaazi on Telugu brotherhood. Maybe like several others of his band Ramulu has illegal land holdings in and around Hyderabad, hence this shot in the dark on four regions. I request the anti corruption bureau to investigate the financial condition of D. Siva Ramulu Naidu, there are sure to be plenty of skeletons in his house and the ACB will find that this man’s finances are way above what he could have earned legally in his entire career, not once but twice over.
The unholy intentions of these people is to keep Hyderabad within their tentacles at all costs. Not a day passes by without these white collared bandits spouting forth some inane excuse or the other against Telangana. Till a few days back we had the Home Ministry, the Governor and the Police speaking about Maoist infiltration in the struggle for Telangana’s statehood. This falsehood was perpetrated by the Seemandhra leadership and its stooges in the Center and the Raj Bhawan in Hyderabad to justify the police atrocities against the people of Telangana. And it took, no less an authority than the Supreme Court of India to put a stop these lies of the Nazi’s of Andhra.
Enough is enough, we have tolerated the greed and rapaciousness of these Seemandhras for 50 long years. The time for negotiations is over, what is needed is direct action, as a first step let us start weeding out these Seemaandhras from our land. Let no Seemandhra be allowed to work in our offices or study in our colleges. Let us make an example of Seemandhra infiltrators enrolled in our Universities and force them to go back. It is only when these people feel our boots on their backsides will they leave our Motherland.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind.
We have been saying time and again that these Seemandhra rapists have set their lustful filled eyes on Hyderabad, that too on Greater Hyderabad, and no points for guessing the reasons. These elements have acquired large tracts of land around Hyderabad, mostly Government land at throw away prices, and it is the fear of having these illegally acquired lands being investigated and seized by the Government of Telangana that is behind all this dramabaazi on Telugu brotherhood. Maybe like several others of his band Ramulu has illegal land holdings in and around Hyderabad, hence this shot in the dark on four regions. I request the anti corruption bureau to investigate the financial condition of D. Siva Ramulu Naidu, there are sure to be plenty of skeletons in his house and the ACB will find that this man’s finances are way above what he could have earned legally in his entire career, not once but twice over.
The unholy intentions of these people is to keep Hyderabad within their tentacles at all costs. Not a day passes by without these white collared bandits spouting forth some inane excuse or the other against Telangana. Till a few days back we had the Home Ministry, the Governor and the Police speaking about Maoist infiltration in the struggle for Telangana’s statehood. This falsehood was perpetrated by the Seemandhra leadership and its stooges in the Center and the Raj Bhawan in Hyderabad to justify the police atrocities against the people of Telangana. And it took, no less an authority than the Supreme Court of India to put a stop these lies of the Nazi’s of Andhra.
Enough is enough, we have tolerated the greed and rapaciousness of these Seemandhras for 50 long years. The time for negotiations is over, what is needed is direct action, as a first step let us start weeding out these Seemaandhras from our land. Let no Seemandhra be allowed to work in our offices or study in our colleges. Let us make an example of Seemandhra infiltrators enrolled in our Universities and force them to go back. It is only when these people feel our boots on their backsides will they leave our Motherland.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
This Ugadi Let’s Celebrate the Birth of the Telangana era
Ugadi which literally translates into “start of an era” has truly lived up to its name this year and will be chronicled in history as the day that marked the start of the Telangana era. According to Hindu mythology, the creator of the Hindu pantheon Lord Brahma started creation on this day - Chaitra suddha padhyami or the Ugadi day, so too shall this day mark the transition of the Telangana movement from being a passive self flagellating movement for statehood to an active aggressive one with the fight being taken to the aggressor’s door.
The Warangal zilla parishad general body, in its meeting yesterday unanimously passed a resolution urging the government to send back the Andhra officers. It also passed a resolution for recruiting only Telangana people to its ranks. The malafide intentions of the Seemandhra leaders were laid bare in the meeting with details emerging on how several officials from Andhra were posted to Warangal. These officers from Andhra were allegedly posted in Warangal at the behest of the Andhra leaders, who used their clout in Hyderabad. To cite just one instance, the IKP urban project officer was posted in Warangal and the incumbent, belonging to Telangana, was shifted to her parent department, this transfer was carried out at the insistence of Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal, one of the most vocal and public faces of the anti Telangana lobby, no points for guessing how much and in what way Lagdapati was rewarded for this use of his power. Not only this there are a large number of Seemandhra settlers occupying posts that rightfully belong to Telangana people in 14 other departments of the Zilla Parishad. If this is the magnitude of the Seemandhra infiltration in just the Zilla Parishad office of a single district, one can only imagine the number of these usurpers occupying Telangana jobs in all our 10 districts.
It is the utter shamelessness of these Seemandhra people that they continue to come and occupy our posts while we talk of evicting them from our state and the audacity of their leadership that actively encourages such behavior. Is it for this continued snathing of our bread and our livelihood that these people talk of living together in brotherhood. Let the Lagdapati’s of Andhra realize that today, the people of Warangal have resolved to throw out these usurpers of our jobs from the ZP’s offices in Warangal, tomorrow it will be the collectorates, the commercial taxes department, the revenue and land records department that will resolve to kick you out of our offices and departments in all the 10 districts. Go, now while you still have the chance of leaving in dignity, tarry any longer and we will throw you out bodily.
Just as Ugadi heralds the beginning of new life with plants (barren until now) acquiring new life, shoots and leaves, so shall it herald new life and hope to the people of Telangana. We have made a beginning in Warangal let us carry it out across the entire region, let the Telangana organizations prepare a list of these settlers occupying our posts and then we will bodily evict them both from our posts and our state. The panchangasravanam for Telangana the 29th state of Independent India has been read, the boundary of Telangana has been drawn by the divine hand and Hyderabad proclaimed its capital, it is just a matter of formality now for the boundary to be drawn on paper.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
The Warangal zilla parishad general body, in its meeting yesterday unanimously passed a resolution urging the government to send back the Andhra officers. It also passed a resolution for recruiting only Telangana people to its ranks. The malafide intentions of the Seemandhra leaders were laid bare in the meeting with details emerging on how several officials from Andhra were posted to Warangal. These officers from Andhra were allegedly posted in Warangal at the behest of the Andhra leaders, who used their clout in Hyderabad. To cite just one instance, the IKP urban project officer was posted in Warangal and the incumbent, belonging to Telangana, was shifted to her parent department, this transfer was carried out at the insistence of Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal, one of the most vocal and public faces of the anti Telangana lobby, no points for guessing how much and in what way Lagdapati was rewarded for this use of his power. Not only this there are a large number of Seemandhra settlers occupying posts that rightfully belong to Telangana people in 14 other departments of the Zilla Parishad. If this is the magnitude of the Seemandhra infiltration in just the Zilla Parishad office of a single district, one can only imagine the number of these usurpers occupying Telangana jobs in all our 10 districts.
It is the utter shamelessness of these Seemandhra people that they continue to come and occupy our posts while we talk of evicting them from our state and the audacity of their leadership that actively encourages such behavior. Is it for this continued snathing of our bread and our livelihood that these people talk of living together in brotherhood. Let the Lagdapati’s of Andhra realize that today, the people of Warangal have resolved to throw out these usurpers of our jobs from the ZP’s offices in Warangal, tomorrow it will be the collectorates, the commercial taxes department, the revenue and land records department that will resolve to kick you out of our offices and departments in all the 10 districts. Go, now while you still have the chance of leaving in dignity, tarry any longer and we will throw you out bodily.
Just as Ugadi heralds the beginning of new life with plants (barren until now) acquiring new life, shoots and leaves, so shall it herald new life and hope to the people of Telangana. We have made a beginning in Warangal let us carry it out across the entire region, let the Telangana organizations prepare a list of these settlers occupying our posts and then we will bodily evict them both from our posts and our state. The panchangasravanam for Telangana the 29th state of Independent India has been read, the boundary of Telangana has been drawn by the divine hand and Hyderabad proclaimed its capital, it is just a matter of formality now for the boundary to be drawn on paper.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Monday, March 15, 2010
Kapil Sibal Singed by Telangana Fire
There’s some really heartening news from Hyderabad, the Central Government has finally tasted the wrath of the people of Telangana for turning a deaf ear to our plea for justice. Students of the Central University in Hyderabad forced the retreat of Union Ministers Kapil Sibal and Purandeswari, who left Hyderabad with their tails between their legs, ahead of schedule and cancelling all engagements. These two central ministers were in Hyderabad to inaugurate the new building of CIEFL (Center for English and Foreign Languages) and to attend the meeting of the vice-chancellors of the central universities. Neither the Ministers nor the police were prepared for the siege by the students, who blocked their road demanding a separate state and withdrawal of the bogus Sri Krishna Commission.
Till now the Government at the Center has been successful in turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to the aspirations of the 3.5 crore people of Telangana. It was able to delude itself into believing the reports emanating from the Raj Bhawan and the State Secretariat on the tapering off of the demand for a separate state. However, now that its representatives have been forced to retreat in fear of the student's ire cancelling all engagements, the High Command and her coterie is bound to sit up and take notice. A hundred students have been able to achieve, what the massive rallies and innumerable petitions could not, made the power at the center sit up and take notice of our anger and frustration. We now need to press ahead with this advantage and ensure that no public meeting or visit of the central leadership whether of the Congress, the BJP or the CPI and CPM passes off successfully.
Obviously the unabated suicides in support of a separate state has had no effect on these political parties, over hundred people setting themselves afire has elicited no reaction, save a few empty words of sympathy and advise of forbearance. For long have we showed patience and were content to raise our voice within the walls of our bastions, now the time has come for us to move out of the open air prisons we have been confined to within the campuses, hostels and our homes, and take the fight to the detractors territory. The Telangana lawyers made a start by laying siege to the Parliament in Delhi for a day, at the start of the budget session. We have to follow it up with a peoples march to Delhi culminating in presenting our demand for a separate state to the supreme head of the Indian State, the President of India. If the President has the powers to commute a convicts death sentence then surely She can set the process to commute the living death sentence imposed on the 3.5 crore people of Telangana.
The only way forward for us the children of Telangana is to take the fight for a separate state to the doorsteps of the Power center. Telangana will emerge only when the tremors originating from Hyderabad rock the Parliament in Delhi.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Till now the Government at the Center has been successful in turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to the aspirations of the 3.5 crore people of Telangana. It was able to delude itself into believing the reports emanating from the Raj Bhawan and the State Secretariat on the tapering off of the demand for a separate state. However, now that its representatives have been forced to retreat in fear of the student's ire cancelling all engagements, the High Command and her coterie is bound to sit up and take notice. A hundred students have been able to achieve, what the massive rallies and innumerable petitions could not, made the power at the center sit up and take notice of our anger and frustration. We now need to press ahead with this advantage and ensure that no public meeting or visit of the central leadership whether of the Congress, the BJP or the CPI and CPM passes off successfully.
Obviously the unabated suicides in support of a separate state has had no effect on these political parties, over hundred people setting themselves afire has elicited no reaction, save a few empty words of sympathy and advise of forbearance. For long have we showed patience and were content to raise our voice within the walls of our bastions, now the time has come for us to move out of the open air prisons we have been confined to within the campuses, hostels and our homes, and take the fight to the detractors territory. The Telangana lawyers made a start by laying siege to the Parliament in Delhi for a day, at the start of the budget session. We have to follow it up with a peoples march to Delhi culminating in presenting our demand for a separate state to the supreme head of the Indian State, the President of India. If the President has the powers to commute a convicts death sentence then surely She can set the process to commute the living death sentence imposed on the 3.5 crore people of Telangana.
The only way forward for us the children of Telangana is to take the fight for a separate state to the doorsteps of the Power center. Telangana will emerge only when the tremors originating from Hyderabad rock the Parliament in Delhi.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Sunday, March 14, 2010
We do not need these Politicians to Achieve Telangana State
Danam Nagender, the AP Health Minister refused to sign the memorandum being prepared by Telangana Congress legislators, for submission to the Sri Krishna Commission in support of a separate state. The logic given by the Health Minister was, that it may give the wrong signal to the High Command, who may not like the Telangana Legislators submitting a separate memorandum, as the APCC president was authorized by the Central leadership to submit his report to the panel. Needless to say, Nagender is more loyal to the High Command in Delhi than he is to the electorate who put him in the Assembly. And everyone knows the view point that will be put forward by the Seemandhra dominated APCC.
It is a mute point, that the Sri Krishna Commission is a bogus time pass commission, set up by the Congress at the Center to put Telangana’s statehood in cold storage. What is disappointing is the attitude of the Telangana legislators and MP’s to the demands of its citizens. The only question we have of Nagender is, We can understand your abhorrence to relinquishing your office of profit in the current set up, we can understand your reluctance to resigning from your elected post which may well be the last time you occupy an elected office, but what we cannot understand and forgive is, your refusal to sign the Memorandum in favor of the state of Telangana. We have asked for proof of your loyalty to us and our state and you have failed miserably.
It is tragedy of Telangana that our history is littered with the treachery of our leaders. The story is the same from M. Chenna Reddy and his band of bandits in 1969 to the current crop of traitors like Nagender. None of these elected representatives have shown the courage to take on the power in the center nor the leadership to steer the movement to Statehood. While at the one end we have the Congressmen looking towards the High Command in Delhi, cowering in fear at each imagined displeasure and rejoicing at every smile, while at the other end we have KCR and Vijayshanti of the TRS, who cling on like limpets to their seats in Parliament, neither has attended the Parliament proceedings nor raised Telangana’s voice in the Central hall. KCR, please say how many times have you raised the slogan of “Jai Telangana” in the over 30 days that Parliament has been in session.
We the people of Telangana, do not need you and your ilk to carve out our state, we have the will and the resolve to do it under own steam. If you harbor the misguided impression that we need you to realize our dream of Telangana, please disabuse yourself of this illusion. Telangana has been betrayed by its politicians time and again and this time round we will not make the same mistakes as our fathers by believing in you. The future of Telangana is too precious to be left to your machinations and greed. It is we the people of Telangana who will bring in the birth of the 29th state of India.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
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It is a mute point, that the Sri Krishna Commission is a bogus time pass commission, set up by the Congress at the Center to put Telangana’s statehood in cold storage. What is disappointing is the attitude of the Telangana legislators and MP’s to the demands of its citizens. The only question we have of Nagender is, We can understand your abhorrence to relinquishing your office of profit in the current set up, we can understand your reluctance to resigning from your elected post which may well be the last time you occupy an elected office, but what we cannot understand and forgive is, your refusal to sign the Memorandum in favor of the state of Telangana. We have asked for proof of your loyalty to us and our state and you have failed miserably.
It is tragedy of Telangana that our history is littered with the treachery of our leaders. The story is the same from M. Chenna Reddy and his band of bandits in 1969 to the current crop of traitors like Nagender. None of these elected representatives have shown the courage to take on the power in the center nor the leadership to steer the movement to Statehood. While at the one end we have the Congressmen looking towards the High Command in Delhi, cowering in fear at each imagined displeasure and rejoicing at every smile, while at the other end we have KCR and Vijayshanti of the TRS, who cling on like limpets to their seats in Parliament, neither has attended the Parliament proceedings nor raised Telangana’s voice in the Central hall. KCR, please say how many times have you raised the slogan of “Jai Telangana” in the over 30 days that Parliament has been in session.
We the people of Telangana, do not need you and your ilk to carve out our state, we have the will and the resolve to do it under own steam. If you harbor the misguided impression that we need you to realize our dream of Telangana, please disabuse yourself of this illusion. Telangana has been betrayed by its politicians time and again and this time round we will not make the same mistakes as our fathers by believing in you. The future of Telangana is too precious to be left to your machinations and greed. It is we the people of Telangana who will bring in the birth of the 29th state of India.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Hyderabad Developed at the Cost of Other Cities in AP, Truth Laid Bare
The main contention of the Seemandhra people to the creation of Telangana is the status of Hyderabad. They are willing to set the region free if Hyderabad is either made the Joint Capital or a Union Territory. It is like asking a mother to go free, if she leaves her nubile and beautiful daughter in the captors clutches. The argument put forth by these people is that Hyderabad was developed at the expense of other cities. What blasphemy, Hyderabad was made the capital of Andhra Pradesh because it was the most developed city in the region, it was next only to Delhi in terms of infrastructure and beauty, infact Dr.Ambedkar was so impressed by the city that he proposed it’s being made the Nation’s capital.
Hyderabad was the most developed and progressive state in the entire country when it was annexed with the Andhra region. It was an ideal city with educational institutions, industries, water bodies, sewage system, roads network and power supply. Hyderabad the city of lakes and plenty has in the last 50 years been turned into a nightmare, where the citizens thirst for water in summer and in the rainy season are forced out of their homes by flood waters. There has been no real development in the city for the last 50 years, neither has the water supply been augmented nor the sewage and water works network revamped.
Infact the opposite has occurred successive Seemandhra led Governments have officially usurped public lands by first filling up lakes and then building colonies, which were sold to the settlers from Andhra and Rayalseema. Dilsukhnagar, Saroornagar, Lower tankbund, Masabtank, Nallakunta are a few of the colonies that have been built over filled up lakes. This has both depleted the water supply to the city and choked up the city’s lungs so that today Hyderabad sweats 10 months in a year.
Hyderabad must be the only city in the world which suffers from floods caused by the overflow of sewage and rainwater. The water and sewage system built by the Nizams in the 1940’s and 1950’s serves the city’s needs to this day. The only visible change is the burst out of concrete sores that these settlers have built across the city. Till yesterday, they were busy plundering and spoiling the City from within, today they have spread their tentacles to the adjoining areas. The Natural heritage of the city, the pre historic rock formations surrounding Hyderabad are being dynamited away to provide fodder to these settlers granite mills, landscapes which could in the future be a revenue earner for the state aka Yellow Stone Natural Park of USA is today being sold off as prime real estate.
Hyderabad, the city of romance is today the bone of contention between its children who would nurture the city with the love it deserves and the Seemandhra settlers, the self appointed pimps who are bent on scraping away the last fig leaf. If only cities could speak, Hyderabad would kick its exploiters back to their Kurnools and Vishakapatnams.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Hyderabad was the most developed and progressive state in the entire country when it was annexed with the Andhra region. It was an ideal city with educational institutions, industries, water bodies, sewage system, roads network and power supply. Hyderabad the city of lakes and plenty has in the last 50 years been turned into a nightmare, where the citizens thirst for water in summer and in the rainy season are forced out of their homes by flood waters. There has been no real development in the city for the last 50 years, neither has the water supply been augmented nor the sewage and water works network revamped.
Infact the opposite has occurred successive Seemandhra led Governments have officially usurped public lands by first filling up lakes and then building colonies, which were sold to the settlers from Andhra and Rayalseema. Dilsukhnagar, Saroornagar, Lower tankbund, Masabtank, Nallakunta are a few of the colonies that have been built over filled up lakes. This has both depleted the water supply to the city and choked up the city’s lungs so that today Hyderabad sweats 10 months in a year.
Hyderabad must be the only city in the world which suffers from floods caused by the overflow of sewage and rainwater. The water and sewage system built by the Nizams in the 1940’s and 1950’s serves the city’s needs to this day. The only visible change is the burst out of concrete sores that these settlers have built across the city. Till yesterday, they were busy plundering and spoiling the City from within, today they have spread their tentacles to the adjoining areas. The Natural heritage of the city, the pre historic rock formations surrounding Hyderabad are being dynamited away to provide fodder to these settlers granite mills, landscapes which could in the future be a revenue earner for the state aka Yellow Stone Natural Park of USA is today being sold off as prime real estate.
Hyderabad, the city of romance is today the bone of contention between its children who would nurture the city with the love it deserves and the Seemandhra settlers, the self appointed pimps who are bent on scraping away the last fig leaf. If only cities could speak, Hyderabad would kick its exploiters back to their Kurnools and Vishakapatnams.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Thursday, March 11, 2010
A Very Loud and Clear No to Rayalseema’s Wish of Remaining with Telangana
A section of Rayalseema legislators led by J.C. Diwakar Reddy are proposing the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into two states Andhra and Greater Rayalseema comprising of Telangana and Rayalseema. Is it a wonder that these Rayalseema leaders are wary of Andhra’s and prove the saying that two crooks cannot stay in the same house. The Rayalseema leaders contention is that Rayalseema would suffer the most if the state was bifurcated. According to them, Andhra has nothing to lose but Rayalseema will have to depend on Telangana for river water and to mitigate this dependency they believe it is more beneficial if Rayalseema merges with Telangana.
What a joke! how can these Rayalseema leaders even think that we will be willing to live with them. Dividing the state into Andhra and Telangana+Rayalseema, will be like rescuing a forcibly confined lady from one brothel and selling her into another. Only a perverted mind could think of this proposal and it shows the Rayalseema lobby’s utter callousness and disregard to the sentiments of 3.5 crore Telangana people. Is it for this continuation of the exploitation that over 250 Telangana youth commit suicide in the last four months, is it for this merger with the Seema bandicoots that 370 students laid down their lives in 1969, is it for this handing over of Telangana from one rapist to the next that our people have continued their struggle for the last 50 years. From being a land of honey and milk for a thousand years, right from the glorious period of the Kakatiyas to the Asaf Jahi’s, we have within five decades of being forcibly confined to Andhra Pradesh been systematically degraded to a life of penury. Our youth have no avenues to advancement and fall prey to extremist ideology, our farmers who till half a century back ploughed fields of gold today commit suicide in their barren lands.
Just as a murderer sees visions of his victims, so do these Rayalseema people believe that we will do to them as they have done to us. My advice to Diwakar Reddy and his fellow clowns is, do not delude yourself into thinking that we will entertain any proposal for a Telangana+Rayalseema state. We will sooner lay down our lives than live with you. Maybe, Diwakar Reddy and his fellow Rayalseema goons are scared that we may pay them back in their own currency. Rest Assured Diwakar Reddy, we the people of Telangana are just and humane and will work with the center and our neighbors to work out an equitable distribution of river waters.
We only request you to leave our land and let us live in peace and prosperity. We have five decades of backwardness to surmount, all our energies will be employed in rebuilding our state and will leave no time for us to persecute you and your ilk. You have to decide now either to part as friends and good neighbors or be thrown out tomorrow as usurpers. Whether you decide to live with Andhra or go your separate way is of no concern to us, just leave Telangana.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
What a joke! how can these Rayalseema leaders even think that we will be willing to live with them. Dividing the state into Andhra and Telangana+Rayalseema, will be like rescuing a forcibly confined lady from one brothel and selling her into another. Only a perverted mind could think of this proposal and it shows the Rayalseema lobby’s utter callousness and disregard to the sentiments of 3.5 crore Telangana people. Is it for this continuation of the exploitation that over 250 Telangana youth commit suicide in the last four months, is it for this merger with the Seema bandicoots that 370 students laid down their lives in 1969, is it for this handing over of Telangana from one rapist to the next that our people have continued their struggle for the last 50 years. From being a land of honey and milk for a thousand years, right from the glorious period of the Kakatiyas to the Asaf Jahi’s, we have within five decades of being forcibly confined to Andhra Pradesh been systematically degraded to a life of penury. Our youth have no avenues to advancement and fall prey to extremist ideology, our farmers who till half a century back ploughed fields of gold today commit suicide in their barren lands.
Just as a murderer sees visions of his victims, so do these Rayalseema people believe that we will do to them as they have done to us. My advice to Diwakar Reddy and his fellow clowns is, do not delude yourself into thinking that we will entertain any proposal for a Telangana+Rayalseema state. We will sooner lay down our lives than live with you. Maybe, Diwakar Reddy and his fellow Rayalseema goons are scared that we may pay them back in their own currency. Rest Assured Diwakar Reddy, we the people of Telangana are just and humane and will work with the center and our neighbors to work out an equitable distribution of river waters.
We only request you to leave our land and let us live in peace and prosperity. We have five decades of backwardness to surmount, all our energies will be employed in rebuilding our state and will leave no time for us to persecute you and your ilk. You have to decide now either to part as friends and good neighbors or be thrown out tomorrow as usurpers. Whether you decide to live with Andhra or go your separate way is of no concern to us, just leave Telangana.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The Tentacles of the Seemandhra Moneybags Run Deep and Wide
The root cause of the Seemandhra opposition to the free state of Telangana is the fear of their illicit agreements with the AP Government coming to light. The principal opponents to the Telangana state are the business houses, which proliferated during the reign of Naidu and YSR, these businesses are easy to identify, they came in from nowhere, were promoted by the landlords from the Andhra and Rayalseema region, and the main area of operations for these businesses was Government contracts whether it be mining, construction, power, etc.
The Seemandhra movement for a unified Andhra state has died down and they are back in business, having received assurance from the Center and the State administration on the continuance of status quo, after paying the blood money of 10,000 crores to the Congress Party fund. The latest addition to the Government sanctioned plunder of the states resources is the clearance given to the 445-MW capacity Konaseema private power project to start power generation at a rate of Rs 2.80 a unit. The initial price at which the project was commissioned was Rs. 1.75 per unit, the Government’s revised offer now is a whopping 60% above the original price. And what of the antecedents of the owners of Konaseema Power Project, it is promoted by VBC (Visakhapatnam Bottling Company), a business house that has been in and out of BIFR until 2001, when it suddenly became a profit making company. Surprisingly, the fortunes of this company tail in with the Naidu and YSR regimes.
Not only this, a look at the power purchase agreements the State Government has entered into with Private Power Companies in the last decade, will throw more light on how these businesses got entrenched into the system. The Government entered into a MOU with GVK in 1996 for purchasing power at a rate of Rs.1.80, with Spectrum in 1997 at Rs.1.99, with LANCO in 1999 at Rs.2.57 and finally now with Konaseema at Rs.2.80. This has been commented upon by the Comptroller and Auditor General in almost all its audits, but was conveniently swept under the carpet. As against this, Reliance Power has contracted to build Tilaiya 4,000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project at a tariff of just Rs.1.77 per unit.!!! No wonder these business houses collectively paid silence money to the Central Leadership, to backtrack on its commitment to form a separate state.
This plunder of the state’s coffers and resources by the Seemandhra white collar bandits with the collusion of the State administration cannot go on forever. And the time will come when these buccaneers can no longer purchase the future of Telangana. The day is not far when the voice of 3.5 crore people will make itself heard above the jingle of silver and the rustle of notes. And that day Telangana will be a reality.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
The Seemandhra movement for a unified Andhra state has died down and they are back in business, having received assurance from the Center and the State administration on the continuance of status quo, after paying the blood money of 10,000 crores to the Congress Party fund. The latest addition to the Government sanctioned plunder of the states resources is the clearance given to the 445-MW capacity Konaseema private power project to start power generation at a rate of Rs 2.80 a unit. The initial price at which the project was commissioned was Rs. 1.75 per unit, the Government’s revised offer now is a whopping 60% above the original price. And what of the antecedents of the owners of Konaseema Power Project, it is promoted by VBC (Visakhapatnam Bottling Company), a business house that has been in and out of BIFR until 2001, when it suddenly became a profit making company. Surprisingly, the fortunes of this company tail in with the Naidu and YSR regimes.
Not only this, a look at the power purchase agreements the State Government has entered into with Private Power Companies in the last decade, will throw more light on how these businesses got entrenched into the system. The Government entered into a MOU with GVK in 1996 for purchasing power at a rate of Rs.1.80, with Spectrum in 1997 at Rs.1.99, with LANCO in 1999 at Rs.2.57 and finally now with Konaseema at Rs.2.80. This has been commented upon by the Comptroller and Auditor General in almost all its audits, but was conveniently swept under the carpet. As against this, Reliance Power has contracted to build Tilaiya 4,000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project at a tariff of just Rs.1.77 per unit.!!! No wonder these business houses collectively paid silence money to the Central Leadership, to backtrack on its commitment to form a separate state.
This plunder of the state’s coffers and resources by the Seemandhra white collar bandits with the collusion of the State administration cannot go on forever. And the time will come when these buccaneers can no longer purchase the future of Telangana. The day is not far when the voice of 3.5 crore people will make itself heard above the jingle of silver and the rustle of notes. And that day Telangana will be a reality.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Naidu Unleashes Private Army on Telangana Lawyers
The underlying malevolence and hatred the Seemandhra leadership has towards the Telangana people was demonstrated the other day, when Chandrababu Naidu’s private army brutally attacked and injured members of the Telangana lawyers forum at Indira Park in Hyderabad.
The crime for which the lawyers were subjected to skull cracking blows from Naidu’s soldiers was asking him, to spell out his stand on the status of a separate Telangana state. It was these inflammatory words “Telangana state” that acted as the red flag for the violence that was unleashed on the lawyers.
The incident highlighted the benign patronage the anti Telangana forces enjoy in the State of AP, the police forces which were present on the spot were mute spectators to this mayhem and later swung into action by arresting the lawyers, the victims of this hate wave and let Naidu’s henchmen go free.
Not only this, protests by Telangana citizens against this incident across the region were disrupted by the police and the voice of the people silenced. In the last two days the state administration went on a spree arresting lawyers and those supporting them, the list of people arrested includes scores of advocates in Hyderabad, Nizamabad, Adilabad, not only this about 50 youths who were protesting the arrest of the advocates were taken into preventive custody.
While the police went all out to arrest all those speaking against Naidu’s private army the guilty were roaming the city free as birds, secure in the patronage they enjoy in the sate of AP and the knowledge that not a finger of law will dare to touch them. The same force that used rubber pellets, water canons, and lathi’s to control a students proposed march, watches silently as Naidu’s army cracks skulls and breaks bones. The same state administration which gives the excuse of buses being burnt and stoned, to deploy the elite greyhound force in Osmania University looks the other way when private armies are let loose on peaceful demonstrations.
And to add salt to the wounds of Telangana, no action has been taken till date save the arrest of a couple of minor minions of Naidu two days after the event. This incident has shown to the Nation that there is no justice for Telangana people in Andhra Pradesh, and it is in the interests of humanity and social justice that Telangana be formed.
If the Seemandhra people and the state administration believe, that they can scare us into silence on the demand for a separate state, then they are sadly mistaken. Instances like this will reinforce our determination to carve out our destiny and our state of Telangana.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
The crime for which the lawyers were subjected to skull cracking blows from Naidu’s soldiers was asking him, to spell out his stand on the status of a separate Telangana state. It was these inflammatory words “Telangana state” that acted as the red flag for the violence that was unleashed on the lawyers.
The incident highlighted the benign patronage the anti Telangana forces enjoy in the State of AP, the police forces which were present on the spot were mute spectators to this mayhem and later swung into action by arresting the lawyers, the victims of this hate wave and let Naidu’s henchmen go free.
Not only this, protests by Telangana citizens against this incident across the region were disrupted by the police and the voice of the people silenced. In the last two days the state administration went on a spree arresting lawyers and those supporting them, the list of people arrested includes scores of advocates in Hyderabad, Nizamabad, Adilabad, not only this about 50 youths who were protesting the arrest of the advocates were taken into preventive custody.
While the police went all out to arrest all those speaking against Naidu’s private army the guilty were roaming the city free as birds, secure in the patronage they enjoy in the sate of AP and the knowledge that not a finger of law will dare to touch them. The same force that used rubber pellets, water canons, and lathi’s to control a students proposed march, watches silently as Naidu’s army cracks skulls and breaks bones. The same state administration which gives the excuse of buses being burnt and stoned, to deploy the elite greyhound force in Osmania University looks the other way when private armies are let loose on peaceful demonstrations.
And to add salt to the wounds of Telangana, no action has been taken till date save the arrest of a couple of minor minions of Naidu two days after the event. This incident has shown to the Nation that there is no justice for Telangana people in Andhra Pradesh, and it is in the interests of humanity and social justice that Telangana be formed.
If the Seemandhra people and the state administration believe, that they can scare us into silence on the demand for a separate state, then they are sadly mistaken. Instances like this will reinforce our determination to carve out our destiny and our state of Telangana.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Unabated Arrests of Telangana Activists
The Adilabad police yesterday arrested five pro-Telangana activists for staging a rasta roko near Asifabad bus stand in Adilabad. This is the first time agitators were arrested for blocking traffic while demonstrating against the Government anywhere in India. This shows the State administrations increasing frustration in its ability to control and subdue the people’s movement. The incident a precursor of things to come, the day is not far when Telangana agitators will be arrested for raising Jai Telangana slogans on the pretext of noise pollution.
The State Government has been given strict instructions by the center that is manipulated by the Seemandhra moneybags to curb and derail the movement for a separate state of Telangana. And in keeping with their part of the bargain state administration and the police are using every small pretext to unleash violence as witnessed many times in Osmania and Kakatiya University and innumerable other incidents across the region. But, this arrest of people for blockading traffic is a new low.
This arrest on such frivolous grounds is not to be taken as being ridiculous, there is a deep conspiracy behind it. The state administration plans to use such frivolous excuses to arrest and imprison our youth and force them to react in anger and violence. The Center’s game plan is obvious besmirch the demand for a separate state, as being stage managed by the naxals and Maoists and it will give the Center a valid reason to deny the people of Telangana, the right of self determination. This bogey was first raised by P Chidambaram in the all party meeting, post the Seemandhra’s donation of 10,000 crore rupees to the Congress party fund and was slowly fed by the State administration. However the Supreme Court called the Government’s bluff when it was unable to show any concrete proof of naxal and maoist influence.
Now the State Administration has changed tactics and is working towards making it impossible for us to raise our voice for a separate state by closing all avenues of democratic forms of protest. It plans on forcing us to resort to violence and justify its claims of extremist involvement in our movement. We need to guard our selves from falling into the Center’s trap and carry on our protest in peace and following all democratic principles. We need to be alert and guard ourselves from falling into the Government’s well laid trap of resorting to violence.
The journey to statehood may be difficult but ultimate victory is ours.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Read more at
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
The State Government has been given strict instructions by the center that is manipulated by the Seemandhra moneybags to curb and derail the movement for a separate state of Telangana. And in keeping with their part of the bargain state administration and the police are using every small pretext to unleash violence as witnessed many times in Osmania and Kakatiya University and innumerable other incidents across the region. But, this arrest of people for blockading traffic is a new low.
This arrest on such frivolous grounds is not to be taken as being ridiculous, there is a deep conspiracy behind it. The state administration plans to use such frivolous excuses to arrest and imprison our youth and force them to react in anger and violence. The Center’s game plan is obvious besmirch the demand for a separate state, as being stage managed by the naxals and Maoists and it will give the Center a valid reason to deny the people of Telangana, the right of self determination. This bogey was first raised by P Chidambaram in the all party meeting, post the Seemandhra’s donation of 10,000 crore rupees to the Congress party fund and was slowly fed by the State administration. However the Supreme Court called the Government’s bluff when it was unable to show any concrete proof of naxal and maoist influence.
Now the State Administration has changed tactics and is working towards making it impossible for us to raise our voice for a separate state by closing all avenues of democratic forms of protest. It plans on forcing us to resort to violence and justify its claims of extremist involvement in our movement. We need to guard our selves from falling into the Center’s trap and carry on our protest in peace and following all democratic principles. We need to be alert and guard ourselves from falling into the Government’s well laid trap of resorting to violence.
The journey to statehood may be difficult but ultimate victory is ours.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Read more at
http://telanganaprajasamithi.blogspot.com
http://telanganaprajasamiti.wordpress.com
Friday, March 5, 2010
Long Live Botcha
Botcha Satyanarayana and the Pratyeka Andhra Sadhana Samiti, are the only sane voices of reason among the cacophony of the Seemandhra lobby. These people accept that injustice has been done to Telangana and are in favor of two separate states, speaks of the reality dawning on the Seemandhra leadership, on the inadvisability of continuing with the occupation of the Telangana, against the will of the people.
Both Botcha and members of the Pratyeka Andhra Sadhana Samiti have heeded to the voice of conscience and are willing to cut their losses and release Telangana from its half a century of bondage, is a sign of things to come. Telangana will be formed once these Seemandhra plunderers realize that they cannot continue with their domination over our state, Telangana will be formed when these settlers find it difficult to continue to stay on in our state and continue to hold our jobs, occupy our homes, and steal our waters people. Then they will have no choice but to leave Telangana to prosper in peace.
For this to happen, we need to continue to build pressure on both the State and Central leadership for a separate state. Today all political parties talk of spending time in preparing their representation to the Sri Krishna Commission, which is both a waste of time and resources. This time could have been better spent in highlighting our demand for a separate state and in organizing programs and events in support of a separate state.
My earnest appeal to Botcha and members of the Pratyeka Andhra Sadhana Samiti is please do not just stop at making these public statements, please go a little further and try and convince your brothers that Telangana is not their private property that can be pillaged at will, but a prospective state with a vision, potential, and the right to determine its own destiny. Please carry our message of peace to them, “we will continue to live as brothers in our respective homes, if you leave now with grace.” Please do not make the process of separation harder for yourselves. We are willing to forget and forgive and live in peace with you as our neighbor.
Generations of Telangana people will bless you Botcha and others for starting the process of Seemandhra retreat from Telangana.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Both Botcha and members of the Pratyeka Andhra Sadhana Samiti have heeded to the voice of conscience and are willing to cut their losses and release Telangana from its half a century of bondage, is a sign of things to come. Telangana will be formed once these Seemandhra plunderers realize that they cannot continue with their domination over our state, Telangana will be formed when these settlers find it difficult to continue to stay on in our state and continue to hold our jobs, occupy our homes, and steal our waters people. Then they will have no choice but to leave Telangana to prosper in peace.
For this to happen, we need to continue to build pressure on both the State and Central leadership for a separate state. Today all political parties talk of spending time in preparing their representation to the Sri Krishna Commission, which is both a waste of time and resources. This time could have been better spent in highlighting our demand for a separate state and in organizing programs and events in support of a separate state.
My earnest appeal to Botcha and members of the Pratyeka Andhra Sadhana Samiti is please do not just stop at making these public statements, please go a little further and try and convince your brothers that Telangana is not their private property that can be pillaged at will, but a prospective state with a vision, potential, and the right to determine its own destiny. Please carry our message of peace to them, “we will continue to live as brothers in our respective homes, if you leave now with grace.” Please do not make the process of separation harder for yourselves. We are willing to forget and forgive and live in peace with you as our neighbor.
Generations of Telangana people will bless you Botcha and others for starting the process of Seemandhra retreat from Telangana.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
Monday, March 1, 2010
Mr. Chidambaram Accept Your Lies on Naxals and Maoists Involvement in Telangana Struggle
The Supreme Court on 26 February 2010, slammed the Andhra Pradesh Government for deploying Greyhounds, the elite anti-Naxalite police force in Osmania University campus to arrest the demand for Telangana state, which is being spear headed by students across the region.
The Supreme Court, in its censure of the State Government, stated there is no conclusive proof of the Telangana movement having been infiltrated and stage managed by the Naxals and Maoists. The naxal and maoist bogey was being raised time and again both by the Home Minister Mr.Chidambaram who used it as excuse to back track on the December 9, 2009 statement on Telangana state, and by the State Administration right from the Governor ESL Narasimhan, the IG of Police Mr. Girish Kumar to the DGP Mr. AK Khan, as an excuse to justify the police excesses, within the University campus and the Telangana protagonists.
We the people of Telangana, have just one question for Mr. Chidambaram, “Now that your lies have been nailed, are you and your Government, willing to accept that you have lied to the Nation. Is your Government ready to redress the emotional turmoil and mental anguish that you have inflicted on the people of Telangana. Are you man enough to redeem yourself in the eyes of the Nation, and set the process rolling for a separate state. Or will you get your henchmen and their leader Narasimhan, to prepare another bogus report on the Naxal and Maoist infiltration.
If, as your counsel argued, mere setting buses on fire justifies the State’s violent reaction then pray tell us, why were not these forces used against members of your party, who went on a murder and loot spree in 1983, post the assassination of Indira Gandhi. Was it because they were on the right side of the Central Leadership? Mr. Chidambaram, wake up from the slumber induced by the blood money that the Seemandhra lobby has allegedly paid to your party for scuttling the Telangana issue. Wake up to the unabated suicides of the people from Telangana. Time is running out for your Government to take concrete steps for the creation of Telangana state, if you delay any longer the people of Telangana, may fall prey to the ideology of extremism, History is witness to this.
This was precisely what had happened in the late 60s and early 70’s when the then government crushed the separate Telangana movement with brute force, a process which saw the death of more than 350 students in firing and lathicharge. The frustration caused by the deaths resulted in substantial recruitment into the Naxalite movement and a majority of the current top ranking Maoist leaders are those who joined it in the early and mid 70s. So now as they say, the ball is your court, give us our State and we shall bless you for the next hundred years, but continue to deprive us of our rights and you will be creating the next crop of Naxal and Maoist leaders.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
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The Supreme Court, in its censure of the State Government, stated there is no conclusive proof of the Telangana movement having been infiltrated and stage managed by the Naxals and Maoists. The naxal and maoist bogey was being raised time and again both by the Home Minister Mr.Chidambaram who used it as excuse to back track on the December 9, 2009 statement on Telangana state, and by the State Administration right from the Governor ESL Narasimhan, the IG of Police Mr. Girish Kumar to the DGP Mr. AK Khan, as an excuse to justify the police excesses, within the University campus and the Telangana protagonists.
We the people of Telangana, have just one question for Mr. Chidambaram, “Now that your lies have been nailed, are you and your Government, willing to accept that you have lied to the Nation. Is your Government ready to redress the emotional turmoil and mental anguish that you have inflicted on the people of Telangana. Are you man enough to redeem yourself in the eyes of the Nation, and set the process rolling for a separate state. Or will you get your henchmen and their leader Narasimhan, to prepare another bogus report on the Naxal and Maoist infiltration.
If, as your counsel argued, mere setting buses on fire justifies the State’s violent reaction then pray tell us, why were not these forces used against members of your party, who went on a murder and loot spree in 1983, post the assassination of Indira Gandhi. Was it because they were on the right side of the Central Leadership? Mr. Chidambaram, wake up from the slumber induced by the blood money that the Seemandhra lobby has allegedly paid to your party for scuttling the Telangana issue. Wake up to the unabated suicides of the people from Telangana. Time is running out for your Government to take concrete steps for the creation of Telangana state, if you delay any longer the people of Telangana, may fall prey to the ideology of extremism, History is witness to this.
This was precisely what had happened in the late 60s and early 70’s when the then government crushed the separate Telangana movement with brute force, a process which saw the death of more than 350 students in firing and lathicharge. The frustration caused by the deaths resulted in substantial recruitment into the Naxalite movement and a majority of the current top ranking Maoist leaders are those who joined it in the early and mid 70s. So now as they say, the ball is your court, give us our State and we shall bless you for the next hundred years, but continue to deprive us of our rights and you will be creating the next crop of Naxal and Maoist leaders.
Jai Telangana. Jai Hind
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