Today, as in the past many years, “The Andhra
Pradesh Formation Day” will be observed as “Betrayal Day” in entire Telangana
region. Black flags will be hoisted at every place, especially at places where
the national flag is normally hoisted. There
will be protest rallies and meetings demanding separate statehood for
Telangana. Ministers, MLAs and political party members belonging to Telangana
have decided to boycott all celebrations and events pertaining to State
formation day. Sri Konda Laxman Bapuji, freedom fighter and one fighting for
Separate Telangana State for over four decades and who is 96 years old now will
be going on a 7-day fast from today morning at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi,
demanding Telangana State. Former State Minister and Congress MLA Sri
Komatireddy Venkat Reddy will commence his indefinite hunger strike at Nalgonda
today, demanding the Government to announce and speed up the process of
formation of Telangana State.
Andhra and Telangana were merged on 1st
November 1956, against the recommendations of the ‘First States Reorganization
Commission’ (First SRC) popularly known as ‘Fazal Ali Commission’ and thereafter
all agreements made from time to time and corrective actions to safeguard job opportunities
and development in Telangana have been diluted. The list of injustices in every
aspect of governance is enormous. Protests against these injustices have been made
by the people from the very beginning but unfortunately due to selfish
politicians from Telangana who turned a blind eye to the local problems to
safeguard their personal interests and priorities, the problems of Telangana and
the frustration of the people simply grew. The yearlong separate Telangana agitation
in 1969 was violent, over 360 agitators were shot dead and the agitation was suppressed
politically by luring politicians and with a fresh agreement which was never
implemented.
The demand for separate State continued and
starting from 2004 every major political party in the State and Center started
promising Telangana State during elections and forgot the Telangana issue
immediately after winning the elections or gave excuse after excuse for
delaying or not fulfilling the promise. This trend continued in the 2009
general elections too, just for the cause of winning elections and coming to
power to fulfill their personal agendas. And on 9th December 2009, when the
Central Government announced that the process for formation of ‘Telangana State’
has commenced, there were protests by some politicians who all along fooled the
Telangana electorate that they have no objection to the formation of Telangana
and that they would abide by the decision of the Central Government. With these
protests the Central Government buckled and since two years it is saying that
it is carrying out discussions to find a permanent solution, narrow
discussions, wider discussions, consensus discussions, all party discussions,
sub-core committee discussions, core committee discussions, discussions after
elections, discussions after results, discussions in the new year, discussions
after Ramzan, discussions after Dasara, Discussions after Diwali and now
discussions after Bakrid festival. I do not know when these discussions would
end and in the meantime over 600 frustrated aspirants of Telangana have
unfortunately ended their lives.
The agitation in Telangana is continuing in spite
of several tricks and moves to suppress it. I wish it continues until these
shameless deceivers bow down to fulfill their promise of a separate Telangana
State, exactly as the people are demanding it.
P.S. Dated-2nd November: You may read about the
intensity of the Betrayal Day/Black Day agitation in Telangana yesterday, 1st
Nov. - I am producing below today’s newspaper clippings; if you read them
carefully you will understand the intensity of the agitation. I hope the irresponsible
and the deceiving politicians busy with their profiteering activities would
take time to read newspapers to understand the ground situation in Telangana.
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