Telangana is going to become India’s 29th State as per the decision taken by the
Congress party with approval from CWC and UPA. Hyderabad will be its
Capital to be shared for 10 years with Andhra Pradesh from which it will
be carved. Telangana Statehood is approved with 10 districts and
Hyderabad as demanded by the leaders of the Telangana movement. The ten
districts are Hyderabad, Adilabad, Khammam, Karimnagar, Mahabubnagar,
Medak, Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Rangareddy and Warangal. The State of
Telangana is rich with natural resources like coal and with two rivers
flowing through it.
Telangana
region was merged with Andhra State in 1956 to form Andhra Pradesh.
Since then the people of the Telangana region were agitating for its
delinking with the newly formed State of Andhra Pradesh. Several times
the movement took a serious turn of incidents but subsided gradually.
The movement again caught momentum with the Telangana Rashtra Samiti
emerging as a national political party in 2001 with K Chandrasekahara
Rao as its President.
TRS with
KCR and Harish Rao and Telangana JAC led by Prof.Kodandaram made many
programs of protest against the State Government. The most successful
agitation of all are, Million March on 10th March 2010, non cooperation
movement for 16 days starting from 17th February 2011, “Sakala Janula
Samme” (All people’s strike) in which all Government employees
participated for 42 days starting from 13th September 2011 and mass
resignations.
All the
trouble started with the first SRC (State Reorganization Committee) that
recommended disintegration of Hyderabad State and to merge the
districts with Marathi speaking people with the Bombay State and the
districts of Kannada speaking people with Mysore State. In the process
Telugu speaking districts were merged with Andhra State making it
Visalandhra. The SRC also said at that time that ‘One of the principal
causes of opposition of Vishalandhra also seems to be the apprehension
felt by the educationally backward people of Telangana that they may be
swamped and exploited by the more advanced people of the coastal areas.’
In its final analysis SRC recommended against the immediate merger.
But the then Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru went ahead with
the merger.
But the
dissatisfied Telangana people agitated in 1969 which turned violent that
necessitated calling of army to control the violent masses.
From that
time onwards till the announcement of the Congress party through the
then Finance Minsiter Chidambaram on December 9, 2009 many protests were
made by the leaders of the Telangana movement. But again the congress
party withdrew its promise.
Then came
the Srikrishna Committee to study and recommend whether the State can
be divided. As the Committee’s report was not totally in favor of the
bifurcation of the State, The movement again intensified.
The
congress party also dodged the issue by asking for all party consensus
and a resolution to be passed in the Assembly and by appointing State in
charges to convene meetings in this regard. Finally.
Latest
State Incharge Digvijay Singh promised that a decision will be made and
it will be in favor of the Telangana statehood in the CWC meeting held
on. But the Congress party wanted to play it safe and called for a
meeting of UPA and again CWC today in which the decision to carve out
Telangana from Andhra Pradesh was passed unanimously.
The
decision was officially announced at 7.00 pm today that made the
Telangana people to dance with joy and to celebrate the occasion.
Now the
part of passing a bill in the Parliament to the effect is left and with
the support of BJP that was promised earlier and also reiterated today,
it is not going to face any problem to get through the Telangana bill
passed in the parliament.
(AW-SriJa)
