Telangana Praja Samithi: Srikantt Chary’s mother seeks support from Telangana Praja Samithi for Palakurthy Assembly seat

Telangana Praja Samithi: Srikantt Chary’s mother seeks support from Telangana Praja Samithi for Palakurthy Assembly seat

Telangana Praja Samithi: Srikantt Chary’s mother seeks support from Telangana Praja Samithi for Palakurthy Assembly seat

Telangana Praja Samithi: Srikantt Chary’s mother seeks support from Telangana Praja Samithi for Palakurthy Assembly seat

Srikantt Chary’s mother seeks support from Telangana Praja Samithi for Palakurthy Assembly seat

Shankaramma mother of Late Srikanth Chary, has approached Telangana Praja Samithi, for support to contest the Palakurthi Assembly Constituency in Warangal District.

Srikanth Chary, set himself on fire, on November 29, 2009 when K Chandrasekahr Rao was taken into police custody. He later succumbed to his burns but this attempt of his set in a heartrending trend of young boys and girls committing suicide for Telangana. Shankaramma, had earlier approached TRS President, K  Chandrasekahr Rao for an assembly ticket from Palakurthy. According to her brother, Ravi Chary, who accompanied her to the meeting, KCR heard their petition and also agreed that their demand was justified. But declined to give her the ticket saying, “where will you get the money to contest the Elections.” Shankaramma commented, “My son has sacrificed his life for Telangana, and if I am denied a ticket because of my financial conditions, then his sacrifice has been in vain.”

The Telangana Praja Samithi, leaders concurred that Telangana has gained statehood because of the will of the people of Telangana to carry on a protracted struggle for 50 years. Neera Kishore, Vice President of TPS condemned the callous disregard of Shankaramma’s request. She said, “Each and every citizen of Telangana irrespective of birth or financial condition or caste and religion has an equal right to lead the State and contribute to its Development. Entry into Politics and allotment of tickets for contesting elections solely based on considerations of birth or money power is the biggest disease plaguing Indian Politics., and Telangana Praja Samithi is against this hijacking of political opportunities by the families of a handful of Individuals. TRS is giving tickets to the entire family of KCR, including cousins, and sons and daughters for the Assembly and Lok Sabha, and does not wish to entertain any requests from representatives of the thousands who sacrificed their lives for Telangana.  This just shows that KCR believes Telangana to be his private property.”

Sanuallah, General Secretary, Telangana Praja Samithi, said, “I request all Telangana parties to allot atleast 1% of the tickets to the families of those who have sacrificed their lives for Telangana. Telangana Praja Samithi, extends its support to the kith and kin of all those who laid down their lives for Telangana, and are desirous of working for the development of the State.”

Telangana Praja Samithi, contested and won 11 of the 14 lok sabha seats in the 1971 elections and will be contesting for all the seats in the 2014 General Elections.

Neera Kishore

The story behind the Telangana Martyrs Memorial, Gun Park, Hyderabad

In 1971, the Telangana Movement was called off  and the people returned to their lives. Pratap Kishore, founder of the Telangana Praja Samithi, could not reconcile himself to the memory of the 370 people, mostly students who were killed in police firing. He thought over the issue and finally broached the subject of building a memorial for the Martry’s to Raghuveer Rao and Keshav Rao Jadav the other founders of the Telangana Praja Samithi. The three deliberated on the issue, and decided that the sacrifice of the martyrs should not go unrecognized, they decided to get the Government to build a memorial for the Telangana Martyr’s. Keshav Rao Jadav, was given the task of broaching the subject of building the memorial, with Lakshminarayana, the Mayor of Hyderabad.

When the memorial was suggested to Lakshminarayana, he agreed to take it up with the Chief Minister, Brahmanand Reddy, who shot it down. But both Pratap Kishore and Keshav Rao Jadhav, continued to put pressure on Lakshminarayana to pursue the subject of the Memorial. After much persuasion, Lakshminarayana, went against the wishes of Brahmanand Reddy, and had the resolution for building the Telangana Martyrs Memorial, approved by the Municipal body. The Municipal body agreed to building the memorial, but at the Victoria Play Ground in Chaderghat. Pratap Kishore, Keshav Rao Jadhav, EV Padnabhan and several other participants of the 1969 rejected the venue, saying the only fitting place for the memorial was in the park opposite the Assembly, where the MP’s who were elected in 1971, had taken an oath to continue their fight for Telangana state and also it was the place where several students were killed in firing. Finally the Corporation relented and gave its nod to building the memorial in front of the Assembly.

The Municipal Corporation called for sculptors to submit their designs for the Memorial. And of all the aspirants, Aekka Yadagiri Rao, a promising sculptor was selected and commissioned with the building of the memorial. Once the clearances for building the memorial were obtained, it was felt that just building a monument was not enough it had to be symbolic. Pratap Kishore then called Anthi Williams, an active Telangana fighter, and asked him to speak to the family of the slain students, it they would be willing to dig up the mortal remains of the martrys, and hand them over to be reburied under the memorial.  About three or four families consented to Pratap Kishore’s request and handed over the mortal remains of their sons to Anthi Williams, who then placed these in a black painted iron box  and sealed and buried it, in the site earmarked for the Memorial, a day beefore the memorial was to be inaugurated. The next day, Lakshminarayana, Mayor of Hyderabad, laid the foundation stone of the martyrs memorial. And the park where it is built was christened the Gun Park, to symbolize the guns that were used to massacre unarmed youth demanding their right to their home.

The memorial is 25 feet high, and incorporates five separate sections. The base is of black polished granite, which has nine bullet impressions on four sides to represent the 360 students, who scarified their life's for the cause in 1969. Each of the nine bullet impressions on each side, stands for the nine districts of Telangana, at that time Ranga Reddy was not a district. The black granite is symbolic of the mourning for the heroes. At the base of the memorial, the names of the martyrs are engraved in the black granite. The Government raised the height of the lawns by six inches, thereby hiding the names of the martyrs. The mythological sun-arch above the base was inspired from Sanchi Stupas. The plaques embossed in it on four sides represent the greatness of the cause. Above the sun-arch, nine strips or columns were carved denoting nine districts of Telangana. The specialty of this art piece is one can spot these nine strips from any side view. The meaning conveyed through it was nine districts of Telangana were united and nobody can disintegrate them. Next is the trapezium structure that has a dharma chakra, representing tolerance and truth, on four sides. The red granite represents sacrifice and the chakra for peace and love. The meaning conveyed through this was that Telangana youths sacrificed their lives while fighting for dharma, rights and justice. At the top there is a white lily flower to symbolize the freshness of youth and immortality of the soul.

India's Parliament attacked by Seemaandhra MP's

Pakistan no longer needs to fund Organisations like the LeT, Indian Mujahideen and several others and incubate terrorists like Hafiz Saeed, Ajmal Kasab or others like them, for why waste time and effort and incur the wrath of the World, when its anti India agenda can be carried out by the likes of Lagadapati Rajagopal , Venugopal and others who can carry out armed attacks within the Parliament of India.

The attack on the Parliamentarians inside the House on 13, February 2014, with chemical sprays and knives led by Ladgapati Rajagopal and Venugopal is an act of war on the Indian Nation. Those carrying out these attacks need to be tried as traitors and anti-India arsonists and awarded the strictest sentence.

The people of India, cannot take this act of aggression on their Parliament lying down, we demand that the Speaker of the Lok Sabha file a case of criminal conspiracy against the Nation on these anti India elements, and they be arrested immediately for endangering the lives of the MP’s and  for carrying out an armed assault.

Lagdapati Rajagopal, Venugopal and the others should be awarded a life ban from contesting any election in India and from holding any Government or Constitutional post in India. The very fact that knives and chemical weapons were brought into the house, inspite of the heavy security and frisking of all personnel entering the Parliament, shows that the act was premeditated and other others are involved in smuggling in these weapons inside the parliament. A judicial enquiry should be instituted to investigate how the weapons were smuggled into the house and who else was involved in planning and carrying out this invasion of democracy.

The attack today was carried out with the aim of subjugating the will of the Parliament and forcing them 12^th of July 2006, after the deadly Mumbai train bombings, and refused to be bowed down by the acts of terrorists. So do the Parliamentarians need to defeat the very purpose of this attack and unanimously pass the T Bill. For to keep silent now or take any other action like opposing the bill or boycotting the parliament when it is to be passed will be to give victory to these arsonists and set a precedent for similar tactics to be employed for pressing demands in the future.

The Nation will be proud of you if you collectively defeat the objective of these anti India elements.

Jai Hind

Neera Kishore

Open Letter to the 15th Lok Sabha

Respected Madam speaker and esteemed members of the Lok Sabha,

We the Citizens of India accepted the argument put forth by our elected representatives that protesting inside the Parliament and Assembly premises and not allowing the function of the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha and the State Assemblies, is also a form of expressing dissatisfaction against the executive’s functioning. But, seeing our legislators resorting to such tactics to sabotage the passage of the Telangana demerger bill has shamed the people of Telangana and India and we cannot remain silent any longer. It is not everyday that a common citizen is forced to write to his/her representatives and law makers reminding them of their oath of office. I am saddened at being forced to write to my MP’s of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, asking them to be true to the Constitution of India, and allow both the houses of Parliament to function as required by law, and successfully clear the passage of the Telangana bill.

The future of a tenth of India’s population namely the people of Telangana is in your hands, it is within your power to either deliver the long denied justice to the people of Telangana or fall prey to the machinations and moneybag persuasion of the Seemandhra mafia. After more than a half a century of strife and struggle, and the pain of losing thousands of our youth first to the bullets of Brahmanand Reddy Government and most recently to the callous disregard of Kiran Kumar Reddy, Chief of the Seemandhra mafia, Telangana is poised to see the dawn of freedom which was snatched by unconstitutional methods in 1956. None can deny that the people of Telangana have been systematically exploited and impoverished by successive Andhra Governments, innumerable committees and commissions have stated adnauseum that  Telangana has been denied justice.  leaders of all political parties in India, right from NTR, Deve Gowda PM of India, Rajiv Gandhi and also LK Advani, hve expressed similar views and promised to deliver justice to Telangana.   

Finally, today when you have the chance of setting right the injustices done to the people of Telangana, do not let it go in waste. Please rise above petty political one-upmanship and show to the world that we may differ on ideology and principles but when it comes to delivering justice and meeting the just demands of its Citizens we can and will rise above politics. The voices of dissent against this are very strident and very powerful, no less a person than the former Chief Minister of AP, who is today the  protoganist in chief of the Seema Andhra Mafia, is leading the charge against the hapless people of Telangana, and the only protection we have against this powerful oppressor is your conscience and the oath you have taken to uphold the constitution of India.

Where Telangana is concerned, the Constition of India has been violated each and every time, right from the unconstitutional and forcible merger of Hyderabad state with the Andhra state to the attempted rejection of the T bill in the AP Assembly on 30^th January, 2014. The forcible merger Hyderabad state with the Andhra state was in violation of due constitutional procedures. The Constitutional process was neither followed then nor in the farce of an Assembly discussion now, Kiran Kumar Reddy and his henchmen in the Assembly have disgraced  Constitution and procedures laid down for conducting the business of the Assembly. The guerilla tactics employed by the Kiran Kumar Reddy in rejecting the T Reorganisation bill, reeks of a back street brawl and is a flagrant disregard of Consitutional processes. The Rules of Business clearly state that a resolution needs an advance notice of ten days, and cannot be moved with no prior notice to the members of the Assembly, this act of Kiran Kumar in which the Speaker was also hand in glove, is an insult to the people of Telangana and Andhra, in depriving our  representatives a chance of think over the resolution and be present to vote on the same, Kiran Kumar has insulted both the Constitution and people of India.

The sole voice of dissent against the passage of the Telangana bill, is the corrupt political and land mafia which has been bank rolling the anti Telangana lobby. I would like to bring to your notice, the reasons why people like Kiran Kumar Reddy, Chanda Babu Naidu, Jagan Mohan Reddy, Lagdapati and the kingpin of the anti Telangana lobby T Subbi Rami Reddy are against the formation of Telangana. Since he was elevated from the ranks of the inconspicuous MLA’s  to the post of Chief Minister of AP, Kiran Kumar Reddy has been on a money making spree, to give an example in Kiran Kumar Reddy within months of being made Chief Minister, though GO 293, approved the change in land use of 33 acres of land in Janwada village in Shankarapally mandal in Ranga Reddy district into residential use zone, against the advise of Experts, earlier GO’s and the Court oders. This Government Order was against GO 111 issued in March 1996 which clearly states that no developmental activity can take place in the catchment areas of the lake bed of Osmansagar and Himayatsagar water bodies, the main source of drinking water for the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. According to the grapewine in the political and real estate circles, Kiran Kumar Reddy issued the GO 293 at the behest of his close family. And today the Real Estate section in the newspapers of Hyderabad is flooded with advertisements for residential apartments and villas in Janwada. It is the fear of having his misdeeds being made public and reversal of such heinous decisions which have imperiled the existence of drinking water sources,  that is root cause of Kiran Kumar’s voice against Telangana.

The unholy nexus between Chandra Babu Naidu and the Chairman of the erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Ltd, Rama Linga Raju is known to all. Both Raju and Naidu have cornered huge tracts of land in the areas marked for expansion of GHMC limits. Not only that Naidu had during his tenure as the CM of AP, gifted large tracts of land for developing IT industry to his friends and cronies, most of which have been used for developing residential and commercial buildings. It is the fear of having these come to light and the benami lands he and his family have acquired along with his friend Ramalinga Raju, that is the prime motivator of Naidu’s opposition to Telangana state. Not only that, Naidu to promote his diary Unit Heritage, has undermined the performance of the APDDC diary units, so much so that almost all the top Management and technical posts in Heritage are  from the APDDC.

Now we come to Jagan Mohan Reddy, the less said about him the better. The cases against him and too long to be penned here.

Lagdapati like Rama Linga Raju and several others prospered under the politician and land mafia nexus of Naidu and later YSR, Jagan Mohan Reddy’s father. His company’s biggest project in Hyderabad Lanco Hills, is being built on Wakf land, it is the fear of having these illegal projects questioned and scrapped that is his fueling his opposition to Telangana.

T Subbi Rami Reddy,  made his fortune as a contractor for the construction of Nagarjuna Sagar. , He is the most influential and the prime mover and shaker, stage managing the Anti Telangana lobby from behind the curtains. Whether it is road construction, building Government offices, or providing Security to any small or large Government office or Exhibition, any and every work the Government of AP has allotted in the last 50 years, TSR’s Gayatri group a piece of the Government’s pie has gone into the coffers of TSR and Gayatri group.

So esteemed members of Parliament the fight for Telangana is between the hapless Telangana people and the land mafia and the Government contractor lobby which is opposed to releasing its death grip on the prey ie Telangana. Today we the people of Telangana bessech you listen to  your conscience and deliver to Telangana a state that was snactched from them. The people of Telangana ask just one thing of you, please set aside your differences for a day and release Telangana from half a century of oppression and exploitation. We the people of Telangana ask that you deliver us from this misery, for to leave the issue pending now is to prolong the agony of an already much abused and exploited people.

You are today at the cross roads of history and the decision you take today will either bring prosperity and plenty to Telangana or plunge it into the depths of gloom and despair, which will prove a fertile ground for anti national elements to prey upon. So listen to your conscience and the cry of 12 crore Indians and say along with us Jai Telangana, the 29th state of India.



Yours sincerely

Neera Kishore

Telangana Praja Samithi

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.

Save the Rashtrapati Bhawan from Caste Politics

“We want a tribal President. Pranab Mukherjee is competent but time has come for a President from the Scheduled Tribes community,” stated PA Sangma in an interview to one of the TV channels, he added, “It has been 60 years, there has been President from all communities but ours.” And with the bugle cry of “tribal for President” Mr. Sangma kicked off his campaign for the August office of India’s 13^th President.

As Mr. Sangma continued to expound on his theme of “tribal for President” I was reminded of a scene we are witness to daily, if you observe at many of the small traffic islands that dot our cities there will invariably be a bunch of street children playing. Whenever the signal turns red and the traffic comes to a stop, one of the older kids picks up an infant and carrying it in the arms goes from vehicle to vehicle asking for alms. As the signal turns green the kid returns to the island and continues with the game until the signal turns red again, when another kid picks up an infant to go begging. There is a striking similarity in the kids using the infant as an aid to begging and Mr. Sangma’s parading of tribal MP’s to garner support for his bid to the Presidents office.

It is ironic that Mr. Sangma, a sitting MP, former speaker of the Lok Sabha, erstwhile  CM of Meghalaya, former Union Cabinet Minster, stakes his claim to be the First Citizen of India, not on the basis of his considerable achievements but on his Scheduled Tribe status. His efforts making his tribal status the central issue for the Presidential bid is a manifestation of the decay that has been plaguing our body politic for years.

Sangma is not alone in trying to tarnish the Presidential elections with the taint of caste, religion and gender based politics, according to reports Jayalalitha and Naveen Patnaik's decision to root for PA Sangma as a Presidential poll candidate was prompted by their "understanding" that Sonia Gandhi would eventually pick a tribal leader as the UPA nominee. Also there are speculations raging on the acceptability of other potential candidates like Hamid Ansari, Meira Kumar, Abdul Kalam etc. sadly no one seems interested in talking about their achievements, the issues seems to be focused on the impact their respective nominations may have on the vote banks.

Today it is Sangma and his supporters demanding India’s first Tribal President, next time it may be a clamour for a Kashmiri, a Gujarati, a Parsi, where will it end. If we continue to hurtle down the path of caste and religion based politics, a time may come when all religious and caste denominations demand the President of India be elected solely from among their caste or Community on a round robin basis. Is this what India in the 21^st century aspires to.

Over the years we Indians have been conditioned to turn a blind eye to the communalization and castification of policy. But to reduce the election for the Highest Office the country has to offer, to the lowest common denominator is sacrilegious. The President of India is not a consolation prize, you award to a person, race or community for services rendered. It is a position of responsibility and honor requiring the highest moral standards and personal integrity, the President is the bulwark that protects and safeguards the Constitution and the Citizens from the vagaries and ineptitude of the Parliament. We the people of India would like to look up to the President for what he/she stands for and not have the image diminished by the tag of religion or caste.

No one denies Sangma’s credentials to be the future President of India, what we object to is his exploitation of caste to make it to the august office. Sangma and Jayalalitha need to apologize to the Nation for having committed the heinous crime of belittling the stature of the President of India. We the people of India, demand that the hallowed portals of the Rashtrapati Bhawan not be sullied by the divisive forces of caste or religion. We want the political parties to take a collective oath to protect and safeguard the sanctity of the Rashtrapati Bhawan from this cult of divisive politics.

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Satisfaction, Happiness and Prosperity for all promises Chidambaram.. Article published in Hindi Milap on Jan 3, 2010

The Home Minister, P. Chidambaram, in his statement after accepting the Sri Krishna Commission Report today on the future of Telangana, stated the Central Government will work towards arriving at a solution that will bring satisfaction, happiness and prosperity to all. Reading between the lines, the Home Minster has in principle accepted the demand for Telangana state with Hyderabad as its capital and stated that his Government will set the process in motion for the creation of Telangana. For it is a fact that only in their own state will the 4.5 crore people of Telangana be satisfied, happy and hope for prosperity. Any other solution will leave the 4.5 crore people of Telangana, dejected and unhappy and sow the seeds of confrontation and rebellion in the psyche of an emotionally charged region.

The Central Government, has called for a meeting of all political parties in Andhra Pradesh, on January 6, 2011 to discuss the report and build consensus for the future course of action. Though this sounds laudable, history makes us skeptical of the outcome of this meeting. We all know what happened after the all party meet on January 5, 2010 in New Delhi last year. The TRS almost went into reverse gear, and would have laid low for the next 3 years and the General Elections in 2014, when it would have again raised the issue to garner seats. It was the unrelenting pressure of the student community and the common Telangana man and woman who had to resort to taking the extreme step of self immolation before the Government relented and set up the Sri Krishna Commission. Let us keep our fingers crossed and hope the mistakes of history are not repeated again, and the all party meet, ends all speculation and comes up with a concrete plan of action.

The way forward as we see it, is a five point action plan for the Government to embrace. First, set in motion the process of creating Telangana with Hyderabad as its capital. Two, let the Rayalseema and Andhra regions decide whether they want to be together or have separate states and if they prefer to separate trifurcate AP into Telangana, Andhra and Rayalseema. Thirdly, announce a development package for Telangana which has been grossly neglected and for the other state/s to develop a capital in either Vijaywada/Vishakapatnam/Tirupati as they see fit. Fourthly, set up a bifurcation/trifurcation committee to work out the modalities of repatriation of employees working in the Government sector to their respective regions, and for the sharing of river waters and other disputes arising out of the division. Fifthly, set up a transition Government comprising of equal representation from all three regions to ensure a fair and peaceful division and birth of new states.

Though this may be unpalatable to a few vested interests, it is the only solution that can bring about satisfaction, happiness and prosperity for all concerned. Hope, this time the sense of Justice and fair play pervades over greed and covetousness. And the people of Telangana finally get the due rewards which have been denied to them for the last six decades of India’s independence.

by
Neera Kishore