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

Telangana Sold for a few Pieces of Silver

The real politick behind the Center’s back tracking on statehood for Telangana has been laid bare. According to one of the congress legislators from the state who was in the US recently, P Chidambaram’s statement on 9 December 2009, on Telangana jolted the Seemandhra lobby of industrialists, mining and construction contractors and real estate developers, which includes a few top business houses from the region. To safeguard their interests they collectively donated a sum of Rs.10,000 crore to the Congress party fund, with the request that the bifurcation of the State be stayed and even if the worse comes to worst, make Hyderabad either the Joint Capital or a Union Territory.

The chain of events post this transaction at the Center are open to interpretation, first the mild ND Tiwari is moved out of the Raj Bhawan to be replaced by a hardline Narasimhan. That Tiwari was compensated in other ways is a foregone conclusion, till now there has been no inquiry into the incident, that has shamed the dignity and purity of the Governors office. And what of Narasimhan, soon after taking over the reins of the Governorship, he prepares a report on the Naxal and Maoist influence on the demand for a separate state of which there was no trace till then, the report goes so far as to suggest, that the Telangana movement is being stage managed by the naxals. On this logic of Naxal and Maoist infiltration within the students ranks, the State administration, unleashes its terror on hapless students in the Osmania University campus.

Fast forward to January 2010, the promised Sri Krishna Commission is constituted and the Terms of Reference announced, these are so ambiguous and diluted that it will be miracle if it comes up with any concrete report. Again the police unleashes its might on the students of the Osmania University, and the order of the AP High Court asking that all police and para military forces vacate the OU campus, is challenged and a stay order brought in by the State administration from the Supreme court on the specious plea that the University is harboring Naxals and Maoists.

Today, the Vice Chancellor of Osmania University, Tirupati Rao, categorically states that there are no Naxals in the University. Do, you Mr. Home Minister believe the words of the Vice Chancellor or is he also a Naxal sympathizer and a liar. If the Telangana Movement was infiltrated by Naxals and Maoists as is the State and Central Governments propaganda, the law and order situation in Hyderabad and Telangana would have been very different from what it is today. Our youth would not be taking their own lives in desperation, they would not be sitting ducks as they are today for your lathis and rubber bullets, they would not be asking their leaders to resign. These are the acts of a desperate and exploited people and not those of extremists. We have no weapons except their lives and no assets except our mortal bodies, which we have been laying at your doorstep with the hope that you will hear our cry for justice. But, alas instead of justice and a honest hearing we are branded as naxals and maoists.

Mr. Home Minister, the people of Telangana can look the nation in the eye and swear on all that is holy, that our demand for a separate state is a people’s movement. But, can you look at us and say that your party has not bartered away our future for a few pieces of silver.

Jai Telangana
Jai Hind

RIP Yadaiah

As the flames carry away the mortal remains of Yadaiah, the latest martyr of Telangana, let us remember all those who have laid down their lives in the last two months as well as the 379 students who were slaughtered by the Kasu Brahmanand Reddy Government in 1969, and all those who have carried aloft the Telangana banner in the intervening 50 years, Pratap Kishore, EV Padmanabhan, Vandemataram Ram Chander Rao among others.

If the justification for creating the doomed State of Andhra Pradesh was the life of one Potti Sriramulu, then Telangana should have been created five hundred times over, for the number of people who have sacrificed their life for Telangana till date is more than 500.

Does the Government at the Center and those opposed to Telangana realize the desperation and mental agony that can drive a young man at the threshold of life to immolate himself. Looks like for the Center the lives of Telangana people have no meaning, for they have been turning a blind eye to our deprivation and systematic annihilation for the last half century. What else can one say, when the rivers of the region are drained to irrigate the lands of the occupiers as is happening with Nagarjuna Sagar, SLBC that was never taken up, Veligonda project which is on war footing, the mines inundated to save and supply water to the occupiers Polavarm project, dams like Nizamsagar deliberately allowed to silt over so that the water can be diverted to their fields. So when Yadaiah, says he has no hope for a job or future in AP, he was dead right. We the people of Telangana revolve in our hearts that

• We will not let these sacrifices go in vain, and give up our struggle till a separate state is formed
• And lastly we resolve that we shall not rest in peace till the boundary of Telangana is drawn
• We will not insult their sacrifice by shedding tears and morning for now is not the time, today we have to carry on with our fight for survival, we have to carry forward the movement with a will of iron to its final culmination
• We will neither be deterred by the Administration’s zulum nor be swayed by false promises
• We promise to ourselves that we will not lose hope and take the final step but will force the usurpers of Telangana to set us free

For this is what Yadaiah and the other martyrs would have wanted.

As Yadaiah is consigned to the eternal flames for the last time, we promise to ourselves that there shall be no more Yadiah’s, that no other Telangana person will have to take his life in desperation. We will continue our struggle till the boundary of Telangana is drawn, and the 29th state of Independent India sees the light of day for only them will the souls of our martyrs rest in peace.


Jai Telangana
Jai Hind

Rosiah Presents a Dead Budget while Hyderabad Burns

As Nero played the fiddle while Rome burnt, so did Rosiah today present the budget for the dead state of AP, as the city of Hyderabad burned. For how long will the powers that be delude themselves into thinking that the demand for Telangana will die down. The events in the Capital of Telangana today and the response of the Administration sounded the death knell to the hopes of the Andhraseema people, who were thinking that with the Sri Krishna Commission’s constitution they will have a few years more to continue their rape and exploitation of Telangana.

The fact that a few students proposed march to the Assembly, brought the State administration to its knees and forced the police to cordon off the Assembly area, and fence in the city by water tight barricades across state Highways, cancel all inter city trains on the false alarm of a bomb threat, and halt the intracity MMTS. If this is the reaction and fear a few thousand students proposed peace march can create, imagine what will happen when the 3.5 crore people of Telangana take to the streets. Will the administration then mobilize the entire police force of the country and the paramilitary forces and imprison the people of Telangana in their localities, villages and districts, as they today confine our students within the University, Colleges and hostels, with wire fencing and threat of batons and rubber pellets.

And what of our exalted Chief Minister, his cabinet and the so called people’s representatives, they reached the Assembly in their air-conditioned cars, blind to the barricades and the simmering passions in the city. Which they anyways cannot see because of the tinted glass of their cars and homes and the ears that can only hear the call of Delhi. What a travesty of democracy, that these people’s representatives should play at budget, budget while the city cracks under tension and those of us who cannot bear this strain, crack and immolate themselves. Are these MLA’s so foolish that they believe the current Legislative Assembly can survive for the next few months. Most probably they are too scared to face the reality that this is the last time they are sitting within the Assembly premises.

To all intents and purposes, Rosiah has presented a dead budget which will not see the light of the next financial year. For within the next six months, the Finance Minister of Telangana will present the State’s first budget, in the same Assembly.

Jai Telangana
Jai Hind

Let’s do what the Government failed at doing - enforce GO610

The incident at BHEL in Hyderabad, the other day, where in some youngsters thrashed outsiders who had come to attend an interview is a preview of what is to come, if our demand of Telangana state is not heard. This is what happens when the desperation in the hearts reaches the heads, reason loses to the baser emotions. No is to blame for this except the successive Government’s who have for over 50 years suppressed the people of Telangana and limited avenues for them to grow and prosper.

The time has come for us the people of Telangana to get into an active aggressive mode and force the Center to accede to our demand for a separate state. For long have we reposed our faith in the system and dreamt of justice being done to our people. What we have received, after fifty years of deprivation and sixty days of relentless suicides, is a commission whose very objective is to continue the exploitation, rape and systematic annihilation of a region. It is time, we showed the Nation, that Telangana has risen from its ashes and is ready to create its own destiny.

We the people of Telangana have decided to shake off the chains that were holding us back, and to start off with we will set right the injustices that were done to us, starting with taking back the posts in the Government offices and PSU’s that are rightfully ours.

• We will ensure that the over 120 of the 130 posts of HoD’s that are held by people of Seemandhra in Telangana are given back to its rightful claimants
• We will get due representation in the APPSC board and increase our numbers from the current 2 out of 16 to 6
• We will increase our strength in the Government departments from the current 3 lakhs out of 12 lacks to 5 lakhs
• We will ensure, that the over 90% concentration of Seemandhraites in HCU is brought down to less than 40%
• We will see to it, that Telangana gets its due proportion of 42% representation in the Secretariat, which today is a measly 9%

We will with folded hands request the Seemandhra officers, occupying our posts to go back to their region, and if they do not listen to our plea for justice, our Telangana brethren in these offices miniscule though their numbers are will make it very uncomfortable for these usurpers to continue to steal our livelihoods. And in doing so, make them realize that Telangana is no longer the naïve nymphet they have been exploiting for half a century. It has grown up in the dungeons of AP into a powerful Durga who is capable of decapitating demons.

Jai Telangana
Jai Hind

Boycott Sri Krishna Commission

The center’s response to our demand for a separate state is a slap in the face Sri Krishna Commission which has been set up to look into the “current situation arising out of a demand for a separate state”. The terms of reference of this Simon Commission of Chidambaram’s, are an insult to the people of Telangana who continue to lay down their lives for a separate state.

The state of AP created as it was against the recommendations of the SRC, is a historic blunder that has destroyed several generations of Telangana people. Para 386 of States Reorganization Commission Report (SRC) said "After taking all these factors into consideration we have come to the conclusions that it will be in the interests of Andhra as well as Telangana area is to constitute into a separate State, which may be known as the Hyderabad State with provision for its unification with Andhra after the general elections likely to be held in or about 1961 if by a two thirds majority the legislature of the residency Hyderabad State expresses itself in favor of such unification." That Andhra Pradesh was formed disregarding these recommendations, is a travesty of fair play and justice. And today, when the whole region resounds with the demand for the Telangana state, there is no locus standi for a new commission to set up to look into this issue.

The motive behind setting up the commission is obvious from the ToR’s and the time frame given for it to come out with a report, vis lure the people of Telangana with false promises to the dungeons of deprivation from which they dared to come out. Let us the people of Telangana give a fitting reply to this insult and boycott this Simon Commission of Chidambaram’s until the Terms of Reference are modified. This is a public call to boycott the Sri Krishna Commission, let no public representative, political party, student organization, academician respond to the commission’s call for public opinion. We the people of Telangana demand that the Terms of Reference of the Commission be changed to these five points

1. Prepare a status report on the development of Telangana in the last 50 years
2. Prepare a status report on the implementation of GO 610
3. Prepare a road map for the bifurcation of the state into Telangana and Seemandhra
4. Work out an equitable mechanism for sharing of water and power
5. Prepare a report on repatriating Seemandhra employees in State Government Service to their region and devise a roadmap for filling in these posts by Telangana people

If Ms Gandhi and her vassals heed this demand of ours its well and good otherwise we the people of Telangana will set up a separate commission with these Terms of Reference and submit the report to the Nation in a months time frame. For under the current ToR’s Sri Krishna Commission, Telangana will be again be sent into exile for the next 50 years.

Jai Telangana
Jai Hind

Telangana – A police state

The brutal assault by the AP police on students of Osmania University, is the last nail in the coffin of the Seema Andhra lobby. This brutal act of the administration that did not show mercy even to girl students and rained lathi’s and rubber bullets on their hapless heads is the final straw for us the people of Telangana. We have lost all hope for justice, human dignity and humanity from the Government. The treatment meted to us in Hyderabad is worse than that being given to Kasab. The administrations handling of the demand for a separate state is remiscent of the British Empire’s ruthless attempts to curb the Indian Independence movement.

There has been a drastic change in the administration’s attitude to the Telangana people since ESL Narasimhan took command of the Raj Bhawan. Before ESL’s era, the administration’s response was professional and due respect to human and fundamental rights was accorded to the people of Telangana. However, since ESL’s anointment as the Governor of the doomed state of AP, the administration’s response is increasingly becoming more vicious with each new incident surpassing the previous transgression in brutality.

For us the people of Telangana, our fundamental rights have been suspended, we can no longer claim right to freedom of speech and freedom of association. Even senior citizens are denied permission to conduct peace meetings and if they by sheer perseverance get the required permissions from the courts, the gatherings are disrupted by the police by cutting off the power supply. Students who are active participants in the demand for a separate state are arrested on trumped up charges and denied bail. In prison, they are treated worse than criminals and are made to bear indignities that are in contravention of basic human rights, to cite one example they are given just one plastic mug and have to use it both for washing in the toilet and for drinking water.

Universities, in the region have been turned into prisons with neither the students being allowed to leave the campus nor outsiders allowed to enter. There is a complete cordoning off of the Universities and any attempt by outsiders to enter the campus is met with lathi’s and baton’s of the police force.

However, each transgression by the state administration reaffirms our resolve and determination to carve our state of Telangana, neither your lathi’s nor your bullets will deter us from our path to statehood. There is a message for the center and the state administration, the sooner you heed the writing on the wall and give the go ahead for a separate state, the better it will be for all concerned. Today we demand just a separate state do not try our patience and push us into the hardliners corner, where we will be forced to take not only our state but repatriation of all Seema Andhra settlers from Telangana and our capital Hyderabad. The choice is yours to make, either give Telangana today or be prepared to leave the state in your dhoti’s tomorrow. History is witness to the fact, that when the will of the people is awakened even mighty empires retreat in fear.


Jai Telangana
Jai Hind

Two Pronged Political and Administrative Strategy for Telangana

24-year-old Bhooma Reddy, is the latest in the list of many who have committed suicide after seeing the Govt’s apathy on Telangana formation. My earnest appeal to Telangana brothers and sisters is remember “No war is won by scarifying your life. You win wars by making your enemy sacrifice his”. This was written by a Chinese strategist, Lau Tzu over a thousand years back. Instead of losing hope, we need to work towards making the powers that be realize, that there can be no continuation of status quo on this issue. This can happen only if we raise our struggle from being an emotional cry for justice to a strategic demand for a separate state.

The struggle for Telangana has to be fought on two fronts, the political and administrative each with a different plan of action and each reinforcing the impact of the other.

On the political front, I request our representatives to resign from the Lok Sabha, the Assembly, the Legislative Councils and from all political Committees and Ministerial berths. The message from this for the Government will be loud and clear, the struggle cannot be tamed by offering a few morsels of chewed up power like a cabinet berth without portfolio or a Dy. Chief Minister’s post. It will put an end to all speculation and alternatives the center is looking at to walk away from statehood to Telangana and force it to concede to our demand.

At the administrative front, our strategy needs to be the reverse. We need our people in the administration, the police force, the judiciary, the universities and other public corporations to safeguard our interests. As it is we are vastly outnumbered in these and if we resign or leave these posts unattended to it will cause irreparable damage to the state Telangana. Our people within the Government need to assert themselves and derail or make it impossible for any anti-Telangana decision to be implemented. We need them in their posts to safeguard our interests and to be prepared to take over the harness from the Andhras and Rayalseemas once Telangana is formed.

Our strategy till date has been the reverse, our politicians have stuck on like glue to their posts while the administrators have tendered resignations in protest against the Govt’s apathy. The time has now come for us to form a united army to fight for Telangana with the leaders leading from the front and the administrators safeguarding and managing the interests of the region.

Telangana is awaiting its birth, we need to ensure we are capable of nurturing it to prosperity and stability. And this can only happen if we let go of positions of power that we can lay claim to anytime, while sticking on like glue to strategic areas that we can at no time leave unguarded.

Jai Telangana
Jai Hind

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