“All For One, One For All!” was the motto of the famous Three Musketeers of Alexander Dumas. Andhra Pradesh was also formed on similar lines by merging the three regions, but let’s see the general relations among them…
Public Relations: A common man always searches for some common interest like Caste, Religion, Region, etc while establishing a relationship with another man. Usually, in AP, caste is the dominant factor that decides the cardinality of a relationship between any two people. Regional feelings become the second priority. (Interestingly, the dominant Reddy and Kapu communities of SeemaAndhra do not consider the Reddy and Kapu’s of Telangana as their true counterparts. Reddy’s of SeemaAndhra feel they are a superior class than that of Telangana region. Kapu, in Andhra region is a Forward Caste and in Telangana it (Munnuru Kapu) is defined as a Backward Class). Telanganaites, in general, do not wish to relocate themselves to any part of Seema or Andhra regions. The public integrity of SeemaAndhra region intimidates the Telangana people and they feel that they cannot withstand to the aggression of SeemaAndhraites. However, the Telanganites on the other hand, rarely show any resent towards the settlers of Andhra region. This has encouraged a lot of Andhra settlers (especially from the districts of Guntur and Krishna) in Telangana region and most of their offsprings today identify themselves as Telanganites (with an exception to Hyderabadi settlers).
**Telangana people always consider both Seema and Andhra regions as a single unit and refer to it as Andhra region in toto. They are least bothered about the further regional splits like Seema and Northern Andhra (Uttara Andhra) and they think that it is an internal matter of Andhra region.
Political Relations: Political relations have never been any cardinal between the SeemaAndhra and Telanagana leaders. Political Power is such a cake that every dog fights to get it’s own major share. Telangana leaders, who are economically and communally weaker than the SeemaAndhra leaders, are always deprived of the power (especially, the CM post). Congress ruled this state for more than 36 years out of which, Telangana leaders got a fair share of 10+ years of CM rule. On the other hand, TDP ruled the state for 16+ years and no one else other than from the NTR’s family can dare to think of the CM’s post. To sum it up, the T – leaders got an opportunity to lead the state for only 10+ years out of 53+ years and the past 30 years, recorded only two Chief Ministers from Telanagana that too for just a period of about two and half years.
Why there are less CM’s from Telangana? If we analyze in deep, we would realize that it is not the dearth of leadership skills of Telangana leaders that produced less CMs’ to AP but the reason is something else. Majority of Telangana population consists of Backward and Scheduled classes. For the past many years, the political parties have been balancing their overall seat allocation quota to Backward and Scheduled classes by allocating to the leaders from T – Region. As a result, Andhra region has majority of Forward class leaders and T – Region has majority of (assorted) Backward class leaders. It has become a simplified task to the Forward class leaders to divide the assorted Backward class leaders of T – Region. This lack of cohesiveness and acceptance of unique leadership among the T-leaders on the communal grounds failed to create a strong political lobby for any T-leader to become a candidate for a CM post. As a result, the T – leaders are always on look out for ‘some strong political reason’ that could establish them as a strong leader with a mass backing. Raking up the Telangana sentiment and projecting the backwardness of Telangana has been becoming the constant weapon for the Telangana political leaders.
Thus the forward caste domination, caste based politics and disbelief of Telangana people in Andhra leadership has finally made it a “All for None, None for All” situation in Andhra Pradesh.
Public Relations: A common man always searches for some common interest like Caste, Religion, Region, etc while establishing a relationship with another man. Usually, in AP, caste is the dominant factor that decides the cardinality of a relationship between any two people. Regional feelings become the second priority. (Interestingly, the dominant Reddy and Kapu communities of SeemaAndhra do not consider the Reddy and Kapu’s of Telangana as their true counterparts. Reddy’s of SeemaAndhra feel they are a superior class than that of Telangana region. Kapu, in Andhra region is a Forward Caste and in Telangana it (Munnuru Kapu) is defined as a Backward Class). Telanganaites, in general, do not wish to relocate themselves to any part of Seema or Andhra regions. The public integrity of SeemaAndhra region intimidates the Telangana people and they feel that they cannot withstand to the aggression of SeemaAndhraites. However, the Telanganites on the other hand, rarely show any resent towards the settlers of Andhra region. This has encouraged a lot of Andhra settlers (especially from the districts of Guntur and Krishna) in Telangana region and most of their offsprings today identify themselves as Telanganites (with an exception to Hyderabadi settlers).
**Telangana people always consider both Seema and Andhra regions as a single unit and refer to it as Andhra region in toto. They are least bothered about the further regional splits like Seema and Northern Andhra (Uttara Andhra) and they think that it is an internal matter of Andhra region.
Political Relations: Political relations have never been any cardinal between the SeemaAndhra and Telanagana leaders. Political Power is such a cake that every dog fights to get it’s own major share. Telangana leaders, who are economically and communally weaker than the SeemaAndhra leaders, are always deprived of the power (especially, the CM post). Congress ruled this state for more than 36 years out of which, Telangana leaders got a fair share of 10+ years of CM rule. On the other hand, TDP ruled the state for 16+ years and no one else other than from the NTR’s family can dare to think of the CM’s post. To sum it up, the T – leaders got an opportunity to lead the state for only 10+ years out of 53+ years and the past 30 years, recorded only two Chief Ministers from Telanagana that too for just a period of about two and half years.
Why there are less CM’s from Telangana? If we analyze in deep, we would realize that it is not the dearth of leadership skills of Telangana leaders that produced less CMs’ to AP but the reason is something else. Majority of Telangana population consists of Backward and Scheduled classes. For the past many years, the political parties have been balancing their overall seat allocation quota to Backward and Scheduled classes by allocating to the leaders from T – Region. As a result, Andhra region has majority of Forward class leaders and T – Region has majority of (assorted) Backward class leaders. It has become a simplified task to the Forward class leaders to divide the assorted Backward class leaders of T – Region. This lack of cohesiveness and acceptance of unique leadership among the T-leaders on the communal grounds failed to create a strong political lobby for any T-leader to become a candidate for a CM post. As a result, the T – leaders are always on look out for ‘some strong political reason’ that could establish them as a strong leader with a mass backing. Raking up the Telangana sentiment and projecting the backwardness of Telangana has been becoming the constant weapon for the Telangana political leaders.
Thus the forward caste domination, caste based politics and disbelief of Telangana people in Andhra leadership has finally made it a “All for None, None for All” situation in Andhra Pradesh.
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