The Telangana

With the formation of a new state of Telangana the sixty years dream of the people come true and a new era has been started in the southren part of India. The state was carved out of Andhra Pradesh formed in 1956 after the state reorganization commission' recommendations. Though the announcement for the bifurcation of the state was announced much earlier but the actual date of state formation was decided to be June 2, 2014.

When we look back at the history of the separate Telangana state it reveals a bloody side of the movement with the suppressible attitude of the consecutive governments ruling the region and the reluctance of central government towards such an important issue for sixty long years.

Discrimination played the major and vital role in igniting the Telangana sentiment these years. Moreover the political parties dominated by Seemandhra leaderships always shown their arrogance towards the issue.

The Andhra leaders here behaved like the colonials and looted the resources and funds generated by them from the Telangana. They suppressed the 1969 Jai Telangana movement by using some opportunistic leaders. As many as 300 students were killed during that movement in just police firing.

It was another Jalianwala Bagh in the independent India. But they could not suppress the desire for separate state of Telangana alive in the hearts of people. When it was started again in 2001 with the formation of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) the movement’s pace was very low.

TRS leadership convinced the people to vote for them so that a political pressure can be made upon the centre but it could not succeed. Rather TRS was made the part of the governments that were against the formation of Telangana.

Again in 2009 it was a fully student movement driven by media. Though started by TRS leader K Chandrasekhar Rao, present CM of Telangana, it was carried forward by the students, student groups, social and civil society members, NGOs and other organizations.

From 2009 the movement for separate state was run by full energy and enthusiasm but the lowest point of this agitation in my view was the suicide attempts made by the students especially the poor students.

However every suicide attempt gave a galvanizing effected and ignited the Telangana sentiment with full energy and the movement sustained the authoritarian aggression of both state and central governments.

The Telangana was ignored existence just because the one reason that the majority of the population in the region is comprised of backward communities, Tribals, scheduled tribes and Muslims. It was the part of erstwhile princely state of Deccan ruled by AsafJahi dynasty and Qutub Shahi kingdom earlier than that. 

The dominated classes of Seemandhra did not want to see the state full of resources in the hands of these communities. Now as the Telangana has been formed let us hope that a peaceful and affectionate atmosphere among all the communities will prevail and people of Telangana will have their resources in their possession for the development of the newly formed state.