The Eerie Silence of Narasimhan on Communal Clashes in Hyderabad

The Governor of Andhra Pradesh, has been silent on the communal strife in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. The same Narasimhan who was hyper active in leading the State Administrations’ brutal handling of the Telangana struggle has not uttered even a single statement asking for peace save alone convening a high level meeting of the State functionaries to monitor the situation. Even as the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad burned, ESL was busy attending the prize distribution ceremony organized by the Andhra Pradesh branch of the Indian Red Cross Society.

Narasimhan, the protégé of the Seemandhra lobby, had within a fortnight of moving into the Raj Bhawan in Hyderabad, had a report prepared on the Naxal and Maoist influence on the Telangana movement. Now, when all evidence points to the handiwork of outside elements in the communal flare up in Hyderabad, there is not a single directive emanating from the Raj Bhawan on this.

Narasimhan had called a high level meeting of the State Government, and had gone as far as to upbraid the Home Minister, Sabita Indira Reddy on the state’s mild response to the Telangana movement. After, Narasimhan moved into the Raj Bhawan post the orchestrated ouster of ND Tiwari, the Andhra Pradesh administrations response to Telangana movement became draconian, the police wielded lathis, water canons and fired rubber pellets at hapless students with impunity. Neither a single rally nor a public meeting could be held without the sanction of the courts, and then too it was disrupted by the state administration. Contrast this with the current situation, not only were religious processions of both communities allowed in a hyper sensitive atmosphere, but were given the Governments blessings. AK Khan, who led the ruthless charge against the hapless students of Telangana, was but a mute spectator when the mobs went on a communal rampage.

Did not the fact that the same flags totaling over a few lacks were put up across the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, for both Milad Ul Nabi and Hanuman Jayanti, awaken even the slightest suspicion in the former intelligence Officer ESL Narasimhan and the IG of Police AK Khan. Their unnatural silence on this means only one thing they are aware of the identity of the people responsible for this flare-up but cannot act against this lobby as it is detrimental to their interests. Now that Lagdapati's prophecy about Hyderabad being torn by Communal strife if Telangana is formed has come true. Narasimhan will get his minions in the Intelligence Department busy in preparing a report on the delicate communal balance in Hyderabad that can erupt at any moment if Telangana is formed.

Jai Telangana. Jai Hind

Telangana pseudo democratic State

Telangana, the 29th state of independent India, is fast becoming a police state with the reins of the government slowly but surely being taken over by the ex Andhra IPS officer and now the Governor of AP ESL Narasimhan.

Since taking oath as the Governor on 28th December 2009, he has reduced the status of the Chief Minister of the State to that of an errand boy. While the CM tries to make out he is running the Government, Narasimhan is acting as the de facto ruler of the state and apportioning to himself all powers and privileges of the state. Have you ever heard of a Governor upbraiding the Home Minister of the State for her regional bias, has any Governor any where in the history of the Nation taken unto himself the supreme command of the police force while there is a constitutionally elected and functioning Chief Minister along with his council, has any Governor in India ever sought to interfere in the working of the University, has any Governor been so over zealous as to have a report besmirching a people’s movement prepared in less than a week, ESL Narasimhan the Governor of AP has done all this and more.

Narasimhan’s move into the Hyderabad’s Raj Bhawan was planned and executed with military precision. That there are powerful vested interests like the Seema Andhra land mafia in Hyderabad and the Government contractor lobby, which wanted to get rid of Tiwari and have a more pliable man posted in his steed is a well known fact. Surprisingly, since Narasimhan’s appointment the anti-Telangana agitation has all but died down. And rightly so! why bother with bandhs and protest marches, when your work is being ably carried out by your protege.

For the people of Telangana, this is just the beginning, remember the brutality with which the force tried to stop our peace protests, the fact that we had to get the High Court’s order to conduct a students meeting, because the police denied us the right of free speech, at the behest of the Governor. The VC of the Osmania University was forced to go ahead with the semester exams inspite of the syllabus being incomplete, so as to derail our movement, no second guess who was behind the VC’s decision.

Narasimhan, the ex Andhra cadre IPS officer, has been placed in the Hyderabad Raj Bhawan, with a single point agenda. Stop the formation of Telangana state. What he has failed to realize is that in the dusk of his career he has been sent on a futile mission that is deemed to be a failure. For we the people of Telangana have resolved to fight for and achieve statehood and claim our fundamental right to a life of dignity and honor.

Jai Telangana
Jai Hind