The image of hyderabad especially that of Osmania University has come down very badly. Now whom do we blame this for? The government or the opposition or the students? Right from 10 years i have personally seen the fasting till deaths by many politicians, but i have never seen a climax like this before. K. Chandrashekhar Rao, the president of TRS has been struggling hard for the cause of telangana. This time he has done it again. There were agitations by his supporters in OU and they were lathicharged. The situation then was not in the hands of the politicians but in the hands of students. They had to deicide on the fate of this burning issue. Now as usual KCR was about to break his fasting, and then students were shocked because they had got beaten up badly for him and now he breaks it? So because of the pressure of the students, he had to continue at any cost atleast for his image. And then there are resignations in the assembly and the formation of the Joint Action Council by the MLA's from Telangana region. Finally the centre has come up with an idea of forming of a committe which will consult with people in the state and then come up with something conclusive. If necessary, a seperate state will also be declared. Now the committee has to submit its opinion by 31st of december,2010.
Now this is what has happenned in the last 6 months after the demise of the former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, Dr Y.S Rajashekhar Reddy. Let me tell you his loss for the state was very costly. After that unfortunate incident, the race for the next chief minister and now the telangana issue. In the year 2004 when congress was in power, the TRs was in allaince with them. Inspite of being with the party in power, the TRS dint deliver asmuch as it was expected. This time when the elections were held in the state, they were in an alliance with TDP. Crictics say, only because TDP had TRS, CPI in tieup with them that the former have lost the elections. Inspite of Congress voted back to power this time, it has not performed well. Let it be because of the loss of YSR or the disturbed situation today.
Now where do we see the future of the first linguistic state in our country? Though there is an advancement in the centre, after the formation of Committee, for looking into the matter, i see many loop holes. Now the group is 5 in number. Not even a single member who is from Andhra Pradesh. Secondly, the meeting that was held by the centre regarding the seperate state also did not consist of any member from the state even though the state and the centre is led by the same party. I understand to the fact that the members of the panel are highly reputed people, but what if they have no knowledge of the state? There are 33 congress MP's from AP in the parliament and you have only one union minister from the state? And this is the second consecutive time that congress has swept majority. Today, all the Indian Premier League matches have been taken off from the state because of the tense situation in the state including the inaugral ceremony inspite of the Deccan Chargers winning the title last year. And the funniest thing is that some of the matches were transfered to Mumbai where there is a threat to the Aussies from the Shiv Sena. Inspite of the JAC and the Chief minister writing to the centre that they will ensure a foolproof security, they had nothing left to be happy about.
I personally think there is a lot of work to be done. Instead of the formation of a committee by the central govt, they should have asked the people and allow polling do be conducted in the Telangana region. Let the people of the region decide on the fate of the statehood. A few taps on the key board later, i want a decision made in the favour of people but not the government's own benefits. If this does not happen, there will be people skeptical about the democracy prevailing in our country as a whole!
Now this is what has happenned in the last 6 months after the demise of the former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, Dr Y.S Rajashekhar Reddy. Let me tell you his loss for the state was very costly. After that unfortunate incident, the race for the next chief minister and now the telangana issue. In the year 2004 when congress was in power, the TRs was in allaince with them. Inspite of being with the party in power, the TRS dint deliver asmuch as it was expected. This time when the elections were held in the state, they were in an alliance with TDP. Crictics say, only because TDP had TRS, CPI in tieup with them that the former have lost the elections. Inspite of Congress voted back to power this time, it has not performed well. Let it be because of the loss of YSR or the disturbed situation today.
Now where do we see the future of the first linguistic state in our country? Though there is an advancement in the centre, after the formation of Committee, for looking into the matter, i see many loop holes. Now the group is 5 in number. Not even a single member who is from Andhra Pradesh. Secondly, the meeting that was held by the centre regarding the seperate state also did not consist of any member from the state even though the state and the centre is led by the same party. I understand to the fact that the members of the panel are highly reputed people, but what if they have no knowledge of the state? There are 33 congress MP's from AP in the parliament and you have only one union minister from the state? And this is the second consecutive time that congress has swept majority. Today, all the Indian Premier League matches have been taken off from the state because of the tense situation in the state including the inaugral ceremony inspite of the Deccan Chargers winning the title last year. And the funniest thing is that some of the matches were transfered to Mumbai where there is a threat to the Aussies from the Shiv Sena. Inspite of the JAC and the Chief minister writing to the centre that they will ensure a foolproof security, they had nothing left to be happy about.
I personally think there is a lot of work to be done. Instead of the formation of a committee by the central govt, they should have asked the people and allow polling do be conducted in the Telangana region. Let the people of the region decide on the fate of the statehood. A few taps on the key board later, i want a decision made in the favour of people but not the government's own benefits. If this does not happen, there will be people skeptical about the democracy prevailing in our country as a whole!
Nicely written Post! But i would disagree on the point you make about Andhra people not being in Committee. The whole point in having a committee is to have a Unbiased look at the situation. If any minister would have been on the committee then he would have been biased. If he would not have been then people would have said he was!! Apart from that i agree to your article more so because even i am a Hyderabadi!!
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