Jagan your wants are many are you willing to listen to what the people want

For the last two days the news channels have been inundated with video clips of Jaganmohan, President of the YSR Congress, airing his unending wants, on his fast for a Samikhya Andhra.

Let us begin with the first, Jagan you want Modi to make the Bhartiya Janata Party secular, it is truly laudable. You went on to say that you are a Christian and believe in God. You stated that you pray to the lord everyday and recited a prayer that all of us, who went to missionary schools and colleges irrespective of caste or religion used to recite every day and which I still say notwithstanding the fact that I am a Hindu. Jagan the people of the country want you to do more than just read the bible and saying empty prayers, they want you to be a true Christian and follow its tenets. Let me remind you of three of the Ten Commandments which you have forgotten or chose to ignore. Commandment 8 says “Thou shall not steal”, yet you with the connivance of your father have looted the state and the people of Andhra Pradesh to the tune of thousands of crores. Is not this thievery a sin in Christianity. Commandment 9 says, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”, yet you are presenting a false case against the formation of Telangana state, in violation of the very word of God. Now for the 10^th Commandment that states, “Thou shalt not covet”, yet here you are not only coveting the land, water, power, and jobs of the people of Telangana but roaring like an angry lion whose prey has escapade from its jaws. Jagan, the people of the country ask just one thing of you, be a good Christian and in true Christian way stop coveting Telangana.

Jagan you were right in saying, you want more Mohabbatnagar’s and not Muzaffarnagar, yet you are actively fomenting trouble in Rayalseema and Andhra against Telangana. Where was this want for Mohabbbatnagar, when the police rained bullets on hapless Telangana youth, who were protesting in peace against the so called consolation (Odarpu) yatra of yours in Warangal on 27 May 2010. Did you go and visit any of the injured, Jagan, or is it that Telangana does not need Mohabbatnagars. And today you talk of Mohabbatnagar’s while at the same time bankrolling the violence unleased in Tirupati and Vijaywada. To fulfill your wish of having more Mohabbatnagar’s, the people of India want you to call off your henchmen and cohorts from perpetuating violence in Tirupati and Vijaywada.

Jagan, you also want the three regions to stay united, Andhra, Rayalseema and Telangana and then go on to say the reason is that everyday there will be problems and disputes for water and power. You also say that you are willing to ensure Telangana gets justice, in these two sentences you have agreed that firstly Andhra and Rayalseema have been stealing Telangana’s share of water and power in the garb of Andhra Pradesh, and agree that injustice has been done to Telangana, for if no injustice been done then the question for justice would never have arisen. So we the people of Telangana want just one thing and are willing to and have paid the ultimate sacrifice, not by sitting in farcical fasts unto death but by falling prey to bulllets, freedom from the clutches of you Seemandhra exploiters.  

You have so many wants even after filling the coffers of your family vault with the wealth of Telangana people. Yet our want is just one give us our state, and let us live in peace and mutual co-operation as good neighbours. We want you to be a good Christian and not covet your neighbor i.e Telangana’s wealth.

Jai Telangana 

Andhra Pradesh - Time to move on and start building

Ever since the CWC and the NDA agreed to the demerger of the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the Seemandhra region has been rocked by agitations and protests, demanding the decision be taken back. These agitations and protests are because they are apprehensive the demerger will mean loss of jobs and lesser opportunities for growth. The bogey of the job loss and opportunity loss has been raised and nurtured by the Seemandhra businessmen politicians who have profiteered by misusing the Government machinery for the last few decades and see a decline in their profiteering ways in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The demerger is a Win Win for both the Seemandhra and the Telangana People. Telangana wadi have got their wish for a separate state fulfilled and now have to bear the onerous task of proving to the world that they can build a state on par with Dubai and Singapore.

The demerger has the potential to provide tremendous opportunity for growth and development in Andhra Pradesh.  The promise of the Central Government to help the region build its Capital city, will provide massive capital inflows into the region which will create a rapid cycle of spiral development, and has the potential to generate lakhs of jobs in Infrastructure, Retail, Housing, education, utility, healthcare etc.

As for the Government servants who are up in arms against the demerger, they need to seize this opportunity for rapid career advancement. Where today a Government employee in has to wait for anywhere between 5 to 7 years for a promotion, in the new state of Andhra Pradesh there will be vacancies at all levels that will need to be filled in immediately and employees across levels can look forward to a faster promotions. And if the price to be paid for career advancement and the prospect of retiring at a grade higher than one would retire at in the existing setup, is the discomfort of relocating, then it is a very small one indeed. Today lakhs of people leave their country and home in search of greener pastures, the prospect of a promotion on a platter is a boon that is not be passed over.

The demerger of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh is a win win for all the investors, the government employees, the youth looking at starting their careers, and for the fledgling politicians who can now look at a larger role in public life. The only ones who will lose are the businessmen politicians who have been exploiting their political clout for profiteering.

The Seemandhra Government employees need to see where their interests are, agitations and pen down strikes will serve no purpose. It is time now for them to take this opportunity and start planning their next career move.  Look at the situation in the right perspective and not fight these businessmen turned politician’s battles. Grab what is being given to you on a platter and march forth to a great future and let these businessmen fight their own wars.