Petition to SKC
With this, I intend to seize blogging any further posts on this issue in the near future. Thanks for reading through and sharing your opinions through comments.
With this, I intend to seize blogging any further posts on this issue in the near future. Thanks for reading through and sharing your opinions through comments.
The KCR dissidence and TRS: When KCR started off TRS splitting from TDP in 2001, I immediately realized that this would not be just one of those other Telangana bearing passing clouds. The simple reason being, he was instantly welcomed by various sections of Telangana (Employee unions, farmers, communal sections, labor unions and most importantly, the intellectual support by University professors). 2001: I personally thought the state was already in a progressive path with visionary leaders (Chandra Babu talking about IT & Tourism vision and YSR about Agricultural and social reform vision as an opposition leader). Being a Telanganite, I still welcomed TRS and firmly believed that whoever would rule the state next, would be forced to address the issues of Telangana to pacify the demands of separate statehood. But what happened in following years has been an act of heinous demoralizing politics with both Congress and TDP trying to kill each other by holding the gun against TRS shoulders. Every shot that was being fired ended up only hurting the sentiments of Telangana.
The heinous political game of YSR: Post 2004 elections, riding high on the thumping majority granted to Congress and the high command’s appointment as full term CM, YSR showed the true colors of Andhra political leadership. Instead of convincing the people of Telangana towards maintaining a united statehood, he resorted to heinous political games. On one side, YSR not only encouraged new separatist demands by Northern Andhra (Uttarandhra) and Rayalaseema, but also frequently encouraged the demands for an impractical Second State Reorganization Committee (by MP, Lagadapati RajaGopal) to further complicate the process of Telangana state formation. He further resorted to cheap backstab politics by supporting dissidence in TRS MLAs and frequently encouraging them to tarnish KCR’s political image. No Telangana Congress MLA was allowed to talk about the Telangana issues either in the House of Assembly or outside. Those few leaders who dared to speak (eg: Madhu Yashki, Uppunutala, Venkata Swami) were either countered by politically motivated allegations by Congress colleagues or were silenced by luring them with nominated posts. All controversial Telangana issues like Farmers’ and Handloom workers’ suicides, implementation of 610 GO, Controversial Hyderabad Free Zone issue, Allocation of fair share of Krishna water to Telangana region, reversal of ‘On deputation’ government officials in Telangana region; were all conveniently ignored. Instead, YSR initiated major water projects in Rayalaseema under Krishna riverbed, sold / allotted valuable urban properties to Andhra Industrialists at throw away process in spite of stern protests from Telanganites.
The best successful contribution of YSR governance to Telangana region happens to be curbing of leftist extremism aka China sponsored terrorism. Whatever the other popular welfare schemes introduced by him like ArogyaShri, 108 Emergency service, old aged pension scheme, Rs 2/- per kg rice etc were all targeted to entire AP state from the state budget. Telangana never got any special package from the budget. An age old conceived Devudula project phase-1 was also completed, at the inauguration of which, Sonia Gandhi was unable to show up her face to the public of Telangana for having not met to the people’s expectation on separate statehood. A group of very senior Telangana Congress leaders had to face utter humiliation at the Delhi doorsteps with the ‘high command’ not even granting them an appointment. Such was the influence of the Seema-Andhra lobby on Congress high command. All the above happenings brought in a metamorphosis in my vision towards the AP state. I started realizing the fact that it is impossible to fill the gap between highly regional oriented Andhra leadership and a diversified Telangana leadership that cannot lobby in unity to achieve any progressive goals of Telangana in a combined state. Neither Chandra Babu nor YSR would ever speak anything against the interests of Telangana, nor would they act at the pending demands of Telanganites that would lower the systematic Andhra dominance on Telangana region. The worst political offence committed by YSR was allowing the TRS dissident MLAs who violated the whip, to sit in the floor of the assembly for almost two and half years by holding their case pending with the Speaker until one day before what seemed to be an inevitable Supreme court’s judgment. 2008: First time I voted for TRS during the by-elections, in protest to the humiliations met with the Telangana leaders and with the people.
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