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