Time for Telangana

It is time for the Congress to take the plunge and carve the state of Telangana out of Andhra Pradesh. There are many reasons to do so, not least the fact that historically, state boundaries get drawn and redrawn many times. When it became a republic, India was composed of 14 states. Now, at 28, it has double the number. Many states like Andhra Pradesh itself, were carved out of bigger entities after linguistic or ethnic movements.

The three newest states, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand, were created as recently as 2000. State boundaries are not carved in stone, but need to adjust to local needs and politics. The argument for Telangana is simple: the region's people want out and a new state of their own. Statehood might give the backward region a chance to run things better. Indeed, there is evidence to show that smaller states carved out of bigger ones tend to do better than their parent states: in 2008-09, the average person in Jharkhand was 50% better off than the average Bihari, the average Chhattisgarh resident was 54% better off than someone in Madhya Pradesh and income per head in Uttarakhand was 95% more than that in Uttar Pradesh. Why should we doubt that Telangana, home to much forest and mineral wealth, could take off on a similar trajectory after becoming a state?

Most of the reasons for the Congress' chicken-hearted dither over Telangana do not exist any more. Its powerful chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy , an opponent of the idea of Telangana, is no more. Son Jaganmohan is a rebel who has just beaten the Congress in recent bypolls. The main opposition party, the TDP , oscillates opportunistically between pro- and anti-Telangana postures.

The current administration headed by Kiran Reddy has no platform. Creating Telangana will win the Congress many hearts and votes in the region, and stem the losses in Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra. It will also create the opportunity to create a new capital, with all the new spending and infrastructure that's required, away from Hyderabad. There is precious little to lose - and much to gain, from creating Telangana state. Get on with it.

-Economic Times Editorial, 1^st June 2011

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బాబు మారితే భవిష్యత్తు అయనదేనట!
-ఓ పత్రికాధిపతి మొదటి రోజు సందేశం
మారిన బాబు
-అదే పత్రికలో మూడోరోజు సందేశం
మహానాడు ముగిసే నాటికి పార్టీ శ్రేణులు ఉత్తేజం, ఉత్సాహాలతో తొణికిసలాడి పోయాయని ఆ పత్రిక పులకరించిపోయింది.
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కానీ
పత్రికలు రంగులు వేస్తే మేకవన్నెపులి
నిజమైన పులి అవుతుందా?
వందసార్లు చెప్పినా
అసత్యం సత్యమవుతుందా?
గొంతులో నుంచి వచ్చే గాండ్రింపులు
అవేశ ప్రకటనలవుతాయా?
ఫ్రస్ట్రేషన్ ఎమోషన్ అవుతుందా?
నటన జీవితమవుతుందా?
బాబు మారతాడా?
ఒక పార్టీకి ఒక జెండా, ఒక ఎజెండా
లేనప్పుడు ఆ జెండా ఉంటే ఏమి పోతే ఏమి?
మునుగుతున్న నావకు
యాంకర్ వేసినా ప్రయోజనం ఉండదు!
కుంగిపోతున్న సౌధాన్ని
జాకీలు పెట్టి నిలబెట్టడం అసాధ్యం!
పోతపోసిన దివాలాకోరుతనానికి
నిలువెత్తు నిదర్శనం బాబు
సీమాంధ్రుల వంచనాశిల్పానికి
విభజించు పాలించు నైజానికి
ప్రత్యక్షరూపం బాబు!
మాటమీద నిలబడని నాయకుడు
నాయకుడూ కాదు, అది పార్టీ కాదు!
తెలంగాణపై తన నిర్ణయం చెప్పడట
కానీ కేంద్రం నిర్ణయం తీసుకుంటే మాత్రం
అందరినీ మెప్పించేట్టు ఉండాలట!
ఒక ఎజెండాపై తన పార్టీలోనే అందరినీ
మెప్పించలేని అసమర్థ నాయకుడు
మెప్పించడం గురించి మాట్లాడుతున్నాడంటే
దానర్థం ఏమిటి?
‘తెలంగాణపై నిర్ణయం తీసుకుంటే’
వ్యతిరేకిస్తానని చెప్పడమే కాదా?
తెలంగాణ తెలుగుదేశం నాయకులారా?
మీ నాయకుని సందేశం ఇప్పటికయినా అర్థమవుతుందా?

-కట్టా శేఖర్‌రెడ్డి

The guise of Parakala Prabhakar

In the disguise of praise you are tried to passed on some blatant lies.

1. Telangana political communication successfully convinced that an unreal thing a real one. You are blind folded by your belongingness. Andhra pradesh government itself accepted that the injustice is done to Telangana and has to be rectified. You take GO 34 issued in 1969. You can also see the fate of 610 GO. Regarding water you tell me how much water allocated to Mahaboobnagar, what they are getting since 1975's Bachavat Award.

2. Regarding development you talk of voluminous data. What data it is sir? Who prepared? Dont you know that this is prepared by the stauquoist establishment? Why that data only? Central government planning commission's task force declared that 13 out of 23 districts are backward, of them 9 are from Telangana. Dont you know your percapita based voluminous data is bogus and make belief development?

3. You have mentioned that Telugu people are under one roof for centuries. Again a big lie. I will challenge you on this point. 'Except' 300 years Telugu people are never under one dominion. In that 300 years also there are more than 100 samantha rajyas, which have no resemblance. Even in Kaktiyas time uttarandhra is not with us. Some parts of Rayalaseema is not with us. Even in Asafjahi's time there are dozens of nawabs and jagirdars who ruled separately and paid taxes to the king. Why sir. People like you are also not giving a rational thought?

Sweet coated poison will not work sir. you have to woke up now. If you have any belief in democratic processes you have to support the Telangana cause. You know what happened in the last Ten years and what happened on Dec 8,9,10th and that after. If you ignore the complete recent history and just talk of Political communication, we can understand what you are and your soul is.

(It is a response to Parakala Prabhakar's piece in FB-In praise of Telangana Movement?)

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