Thursday, August 1, 2013

The Telangana movement refutes the linguistic mantra for Statehood




The signals for the creation of Telangana, as the 29th state of the Indian Union, is as a result of decades of relentless struggle of its inhabitants, who had craved for recognition as a distinct geographical and cultural entity. This also indicates that mere linguistic affinity cannot be the basis for carving out new states nor can it be held sacrosanct for maintaining the status quo of the existing states.

The votaries for a separate Telangana state have various reasons for having sought this political divorce from Andhra Pradesh. While Telangana is the largest of the three regions of the existing state of Andhra Pradesh state, the region was confronted with social backwardness and a less-developed economy than Andhra, but had a larger revenue base. Moreover in terms of the geopolitical fault line, the irrigation projects on the two major rivers left them in lurch, though they control the headwaters of the rivers, as a higher volume of water was diverted for use in Andhra.  While among the other major sources of concerns that had evolved over a period of time were signs of internal colonialism and regional deprivation, which was as a result of other regions having disproportionate representation in governmental and educational jobs.

In Telangana’s context what was missed by the viceroys of the Indian National Congress party is that the traditional patron-client system cannot help any political party anymore in sustaining its constituencies – the Congress had no choice but to swim with the tide of an idea and an arduous movement that had arrived. The hunger strike in 2009 called by Telangana Rashtriya Samiti, and the movement effectively managed by Prof M. Kodandaram, acted as a catalyst and had ensured that the movement is not enamored by the deviations of the spoil system practiced by the rulers in Delhi.

Once the movement arrives at its logical conclusion, what would be interesting is to note is how the Indian state under the present government, seek to address similar movements for statehood for Vidharbha, Gorkhaland, Bodoland and the call to carve out few more states from Uttar Pradesh.


(The above mentioned opinion is the original and unabridged
text. There has been some inadvertent spelling errors in the print version after it was pruned by the editing desk of the DNA)

1 comment:

  1. Every Indian Communist must know what is Communism—especially Telengana Communists .
    MN Roy and his Jewish honey pot wife Evelyn Trent founded the émigré Communist Party of India on 17 October 1920 in Tashkent .
    Punch into Google search -
    COMMUNISM AND THE JEWS , MAO TSE TUNG AND ROTHSCHILD FUNDS VADAKAYIL …
    Four years after India became independent , in 1951 , four Indian communist leaders hid on board a Russian ship as stowaways and travelled from Calcutta Kidderpore Docks to Moscow to meet Rothschild’s agent Jew Stalin .
    They were Comrades Ajoy Ghosh, S.A. Dange, C. Rajeswara Rao and M. Basava Punnaiah .
    All those who want to know who Jew Stalin is , must punch into Google search -
    EXHUMING DIRTY SECRETS OF HOLODOMOR , BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION, AND THE GULAG VADAKAYIL .
    Chandra Rajeshwara Rao (1914–1994) was THE top leader of the Telengana Rebellion (1946–1951) .
    He also worked as Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary for 28 years until he gave up the job in 1992 for health reasons—and he would die two years later .
    These four leaders, two from each centre, were brought to Moscow by political journalist Nikhil Chakravartty, the editor of Mainstream who planned the entire journey .
    Rothschild stooge Stalin told Telengana Communist leader C Rajeshwara Rao that Nehru was too popular to be brought down by a Chinese model revolution and that the Communists could eventually advance only by heading an armed revolution .. ...
    Stalin discussed the armed Communist struggle whose fountainhead was Telengana with C Rajeshwara Rao, whom he knew a Jew Lenin worshipper .
    Stalin told the gruesome foursome that India was not an independent country , but was still ruled indirectly by proxy by British colonialists— this was FOUR full years after India’s independence .
    DESH BHAKT INDIANS-- DO WE WANT YOUR CHILDREN TO BE SLAVES ?
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    ..

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