Separate Telangana state movement : There have several movements to invalidate the merger of Telangana and Andhra, major ones occurring in 1969, 1972 and 2000s onwards. The Telangana movement gained momentum over decades becoming a widespread political demand of creating a new state from the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh. On December 9, 2009, Government of India announced process of formation of Telangana state. Due to objections raised in Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions immediately after the announcement, and due to the agitation in those regions for 14 days, the decision to form to new state was put on hold on December 23, 2009. The movement continues in Hyderabad and other districts of Telangana. Some people are enacting on the stage scenes preaching violence and taking to guns. These people are not taking mass leave in their jobs, nor leaving them, nor resigning them. They are not dedicating and bequeathing their wealth to the cause but mobilizing people to the meetings and enacting such boastful dramas before these audiences. They should first themselves set and example and leave their jobs. Launch and conduct struggles where they themselves should first jump into action. Then they can preach others. It is nothing but cowardice to ask others to take to guns without themselves doing so. The Teachers and Workers and Employees should adopt various forms of trade union struggles including and indefinite strike for the cause of the separate Telangana state. Presently they are undertaking action only for their service conditions and improvement of wages and salaries. It is very much necessary that these dharnas and pen down strikes and actions of protest should be organized for the intensification of the Telangana movement. Then only it will grow into a Telangana national movement. Of late a new trend has been observed that on the lines of 1969, they are trying to revive the slogan of “Andhra Go Back†and thus intend to lend tempo and vigor to the movement. Thus they wish to have innocent human casualties, 370 people died in the 1969 agitation. It will take a law and order turn instead of a peaceful political movement. Such people should activate the members of their respective organizations in this direction, as charity should begin at home. They have to conduct struggles and first come forward to make sacrifices. Instead they are behaving diametrically in the opposite direction and are contradicting themselves. Those that are provoking on these lines are secure in their jobs and prospering themselves in their personal lives. They are not even capable of even convincing their respective trade unions and organizations to move in the direction of struggle and a program for the attainment of a separate Telangana state. It is not proper for these incompetent leaders to provoke the people without themselves first leading and sacrificing through militant struggles, programs and actions.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:32:10 +0000
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