The Tale Of A Burning "State"

For the past one month, Andhra Pradesh has been burning. The beautiful state has been set on fire by a bunch of separatists. Buses have been burnt, trains have been stopped, bandhs have been called..........protests, hunger strikes, suicides......!!!!! Hell has broken loose!!!! The city of Hyderabad came to a standstill. People are feeling scared to go out. Why is all this happening??? What do these Separatists want???

Telangana, which literally means "the land of Telugus", has been a sensitive region from the day it was merged with the rest of Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema in 1956, during the state reorganization. The State Reorganization Commission which was set up in 1953 by Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister, decided to organize the states on linguistic basis. It was not sure on merging Telangana with Andhra as there were many problems being faced by the people belonging to it. They were in a very poor condition due to the unethical and merciless rule of the Nawabs of Hyderabad. But the government ignored this and made a pact called Gentlemen's Agreement which assures equal share for the Telangana people as well as Andhra people in terms of power sharing as well as administrative domicile rules and distribution of expenses of various regions. But the promises were never kept. In 1969 there was a student agitation which caused lot of bloodshed and loses. But what was achieved by it??? The answer is nothing.

All political parties have been using Telangana as a support for victory and ditching its people all the time. All this political drama for a separate state is nothing but a game for the chair and a war for monopoly over the region. All the politicians who are "fighting" for this "cause" just want more money to fill their greedy bellies because, if the state is united the money cannot be shared as they want. This the sole motive of every Tom, Dick and Harry who is "fighting". The students who are being used as pawns in this great political gamble have shut the thinking part of their brain for some reason. Of course the people of Telangana are suffering in with many problems like unemployment, illiteracy and the naxal peoblem. But a separate state is not an answer to these problems. A separate state would just intensify them. There is a live example for us, the state of Jharkhand. It was carved out of Bihar, itself a backward state, after a long agitation by Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Party. Finally, ten years after the state has been formed, is there any major change???? Is there any development??? The politicians governing it are getting caught in scams and it became a hot bed for Naxal activities. The problems have doubled!!!!! Telangana would come to a similar state if it is separated from Andhra. It is already a hiding ground for naxals.

The fight should be for the development of Telangana rather than a separate Telangana. The fight should be against all those politicians who played with the Telangana issue. The fight Should demand the government to provide quality life for the people of Telangana. The fight should insist on providing good education and infrastructure to the backward Telangana districts. People should not blindly trust these politicians who are "fighting" for this "cause". They are no different from the current lot. The fight should not affect common man's life, who is already busy waging war on his own life. All this menace out there is just disrupting a common man's life.

If shops are closed, how is the shopkeeper going to feed his family?? If roads are blocked how can a son take his ailing mother to the hospital before anything happens to her??? If trains and buses are stopped, how can an eager father in some other town come home to see his new born daughter??? Whys should we, the common people, suffer due to an unethical protest??? Why should we sacrifice our lives for a merciless political game, played by those politicians who don't even care about us????

JUST THINK ABT IT!!!!