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