Telengana Issue........Matters of Detail

Last few weeks seen many arguments / opinions and agitations for the formation of a separate state of “Telengana”.

Some say it’s a strong linguistic feeling and is needed to attain peace and prosperity, some others say term this Telengana issue as regional sentiments by "vested interests" for "political gains" While some say it will stop the development while other quote the opposite.

The Politicians are trying to make the most out of this situation. Suddenly we see all the congress MLA’s who have never spoken about Telengana during YSR’s time, now suddenly changing their tone and sides.

Linguistic state means that all the people possessing same language should be in one region, but it does not mean that they all should be in a same state, and this is not possible. Some say “Separation” is the democratic desire. Being united forcefully is imperialism.

Today, all over the country wave/demand for small states has cropped up. However the legitimate fight for creation of TELENGANA with Hyderabad as its capital, within the legal confines of Indian Constitution, has had a voice since the time of Indian Independence.

I was talking to a friend Mr Bhasker Rao who is a strong supporter of Telengana and according to him:

400 years of existence as a separate entity ( Hyderabad State ) under the rule of Nizam, before independence, automatically grants Telengana the right to demand a separate state.

Further according to him the food, the cultures and the language has a lot of difference. To prove this he quoted that “In many of the families an arranged marriage does not happen between a Telengana family and Andhra Family”

10 out of these 15 chief ministers till date have come from the non-Telengana regions of Andhra Pradesh either from Rayalseema and Coastal Andhra Pradesh. The last chief minister from the Telangana region was in power as far back as 1990’s. While the dominance of chief ministers from the non-Telangana regions has always been there and this is the reason why except for capital city of Hyderabad none of the other Telegnaga regions have improved. This clearly shows that the Telegana movement is not hollow.

Nagarjuna Sagar dam lies in Telangana region. While the original plan included two canals, one to arid and dry Telangana, and the other to the fertile and inundated Andhra region, only one canal was constructed towards Andhra region, while Telangana continued to remain arid, dry and impoverished. All the recommendations that forced the government to construct the new canal were struck down by the majority and partisan Andhra leaders. The coal mines and power plant of Singareni lie in Telangana region, but the backward districts of Telangana get no power. There are thousands of villages and towns in Telangana where they get two hours of power during entire summer, while people of Andhra experience small inconveniences.


With examples like this discrimination is seen in irrigation, in industry, in roads, in canals, in dams, in energy, in education and in employment.

There was consistent and methodical discrimination against people of Telangana for all these years. Newer generation of Andhra and Rayalaseema who had no role in this discrimination find it hard to understand why Telangana people protest for a new state. They have absolutely no idea what has happened in the past and see the present situation in isolation and conclude that Telangana people are brainwashed by their wily and cunning politicians.

The main requirement for overall development of any region is a comprehensive plan for scientific utilization of the entire natural resources of the state after proper and exact estimation of the availability of all natural resources like water, minerals, forests etc., while implementing any project priority should be given to backward areas. Concrete steps should be taken to develop educational and health facilities and to create employment opportunities in all the areas. This can be possible in smaller states very easily.

On my comment that the recently formed states like Jarkhand have not developed:
States like Tripura, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur and the newly formed Jarkhand, Uttaranchal, Chattisgadh ae examples where there is absolutely no development nor is there any hope of development in the future. But this should not be the main cause of us not having a separate state. Comparing this with TELENGANA issue is not RIGHT.

In Andhra Pradesh a suffocating situation is prevailing. Social, economic, political, cultural, ethical and moral crisis is engulfing. There is no proper educational and health facility for our people, no employment for millions of our educated youth, no security for our mothers and sisters. Retrenchments and closures of industries are throwing thousands of our workers on to the streets. Suicides of peasants due to debts are going on unabated. Because of capitalist exploitation a few handfuls are becoming millionaires. This situation is prevailing through out the country, in every state and in every region. This should not be considered in the Telengana seprate state factor

Rives such as Krishna and Godavari enter Andhra from Maharashtra, through the Telangana region, proceed to feed other regions of Andhra Pradesh (except Telengana) and drain into the Bay of Bengal . The Pulichintala project at Nemalipuri village in Nalgonda district is one of the biggest project ever taken by the state government. The project, a balancing reservoir, is planned to submerge 35,000 acres of land in Telengana in order to stabilise the Krishna delta, which mostly falls in the Andhra region. Many farmers have become landless because of this and this will cater the Andhra region.


Some people term this Telengana issue as regional sentiments by "vested interests" for "political gains". This may be true to some extent only, but again its not true to say that this statement is totally true. The cause for a separate state is genuine.

On Telengana Issue causing lot of unrest & violence

Protest / Violence are a part of democracy and this sort of agitations cannot be stopped in India . Gandhi taught us this type of agitations like protesting,civil disobidence and hunder strikes and and this is being followed by all today.

The fact today is “Telangana is less developed compared to Andhra”. Telengana farmers are not as rich as Andhra farmers. Rivers like Krishna and Godavari flow through Telangana, but the water from the dams are sent to Andhra lands. It’s a pity that Telengana farmers could not buy expensive lands in and around Hyderabad and invest in big projects like the Andhras.

Because of less literacy and backwardness of Telangana people, most of the new jobs, postings in government and education are given to people from Andhra. The result is Telangana people are discriminated in their own region. They are seen as inferior, lazy and illiterate. Even the Telangana language is ridiculed and its speakers are butt of many demeaning jokes ( Telugu movies are examples of this)

Except for common language, the people of Andhra and Telangana have different dialects, histories, cultural systems, different food habits.

Now after listening to all this…. I am jinxed…… (*)(*)