Monday, October 7, 2013

Seemandra Agitation

As someone from Hyderabad.. I think i can add a little bit of perspective to decision..

The congress high command for reasons every1 knows y.. decided to bifurcate the state.. I was really glad with the decision because it would save us from all the nonsense we were witnessing from a decade now.

But I am dismayed by the decision of cabinet which introduced the discussion to divide the state in cabinet meeting as a table note.!!! Shinde even said tht he hasnt signed the note till the afternoon of the
same day.. n for god's sake.. U have created a internal committee with senior congress leaders on chair with no constitutional validity n u couldnt even wait for its report..!! really.?? and all this was after 60
days of protest from govt employees in seemandra region.!! now u wonder why the agitation took a violent turn..!

coming to which.. I would like to point out why the whole agitation of seemandra employees started in first place.. after the CWC decision on telangana, KCR spoke to govt employees from telangana region in which he categorically asked and I quote "All seemandra employees in telangana should leave to andhra and no choice on whr to work would be given to them.." which usually was the precedent.. On top of tht One enlightened leader of congress Mr. VHR goes to tirupathi which is a seemandra dist btw and repeats the same thing n gets almost bashed by agitators. these were jus few examples.. Couldnt they maintain some restraint..? No wonder they fear if this is the case before even the process of division takes place what about their future.?? Now they r leading the agitation from front without political
intervention atleast publicly..

In the course of agitation, The telangana leaders of all parties but particularly TRS called people of seemandra robbers, dacoits and wht not.. well they call it anger because of heart burn and even raised the slogans like telangana wale jago.. andhra wale bhago.!! So does the congress party vindicate their stand
about the seemandra people.? and wht were they doing when all the injustice was happening.. waitin for right time to ask for a separate state.?!! they even make absurd claims like hyderabad was all developed
before integration itself (thts way back in 1950's ) n people from other regions/states have no role what so ever in its development..!! I wonder if only people from telangana were payin all the taxes.. n btw
this is the second capital change for andhra people the other one being from erstwhile madras..and the first time a region having the capital city insisted for division.

as most of us discussed abt water resources sharing, revenue sharing, new capital, hyderabad which
is the main source employment in tertiary sector in the whole state just some but most important issues.

what happened to all the states where the legislative assembly passed the resolutions for creation of
new states..?? no one knows.!! may be the files went missing.? how will we deal with similar demands in future.. well lets see when the demand comes up..this is the attitude of present UPA govt.. which would not care abt people's mandate until they resort to some violence.!!

Finally, Looks like UPA 2 woke up to the fact that the process is not going to be that easy.. If only they have some1 which a sane head to think of all these consequences b4 they take a decision.. the situation would have been different.. they talked to some congress MP's from seemandra who were all businessmen btw n were only bothered abt monetary and river water aspect of division..tht was the reason why polavaram was granted national project tag (how will they complete it with orissa opposing it
is another issue altogether ) n packages were promised to underdeveloped regions.. division could have even been done by evolving proper consensus but then they cannot claim to be pioneers for telangana
creation.. could they.? n they now constitute a GOM which will decide all issues arising from division in 6 bloody weeks..wow.!! n we call our country policy paralyzed..! we hv to wait n see if the promise of
packages would affect the agitation in anyway.. but i certainly doubt tht given the fact tht the way they tried to fast track the decision even bypassing the legislative assembly at one time.!!

I personally feel this has gone too far to keep the state united henceforth but you have to understand the genuine concerns of people of all regions and evolve a suitable mechanism to address their grievances.. how will UPA do tht only they can answer because they r hellbent on creating the new state by soniaji's bday & all their decisions abt my state lately seem to defy all the logic i hv ever learnt.