This Post is about desires,aspirations and changes in live's of people in Telangana after demerging from Andhra Pradesh.
When ever i asked someone if you support in formation of Telangana, People blindly show support with pro or against just based on where they come from.Most of andhra ppl still dont know what reasons made us to demand for seperation. Let me explain you history and reasons behind this.
· It is yet to be established about the point of origin of Telugu language. Telugu is predominant language in Southern part of India. Speaker of telugu are spread from Deccan region to the east coast region of India
· Hyderabad state had total of 16 districts: 8 Telangana + 5 Maratwada + 3 Kannada speaking states.
· Nizam dynasty ruled it from 1724 to 1948
· Struggle against the king started somewhere in 1943 and it reached new heights after 17th August 1947 as king refused to join the Indian union as he had an idea of making it a part of Pakistan.
· Police action started on September 13th and on September 17th of 1948 Hyderabad state became a part of Indian union.
· Telangana saw it is first elected government of Boorgula Ramakrishna Rao in 1952, the 4 year vacuum in government sector was filled by people of Andhra Region
· Then started the MULKI struggle (Mulk stands of state in Urdu), GAIR MULKI GO BACK was the slogan at that time. It was very simple but effective tactic by the Government of India to control the people, officers from Andhra region were placed to monitor the activities in Telangana for example police of Telangana state was formed by constables of Telangana region and officers from Andhra region. I need not remind you how well our police department work and it is the direct govt in many places
About state formation and HYDERABAD
State reorganization commission (SRC) 1953:
There was a demand for language based state in several parts of the country and so among the few Telugu people of south India.
SRC was commissioned by Delhi and was headed by Supreme Court judge Fazal Ali. He clearly mentioned that 8 Telugu speaking districts of Hyderabad state should be clubbed into state called telangana and if interested in future assembly must vote 2/3 majority so that Telangana can be part of a United Telugu state.
He made points both for and against the Merge:
AGAINST:
· It is not good to merge two regions which are unequal in development
· Andhra is in DEFICIT budget and Telangana is in surplus and there is every danger of surplus is being used by deficit region
· Telangana is a plateau region where as the Andhra is plan and fertile utilization of water resources will be unequal under unified state
For Merge:
· Andhra region will benefit from the infrastructure of Hyderabad and hence the problem of their capital will be solved.
· Both regions can exchange food and mineral resources so that there can be an all around development (Now anyone can easily verify what amount of minerals Telangana lost to this unified state but what amount of food it got in return)
FORMATION OF ANDHRA PRADESH
In 1956 C.M’s of Hyderabad and Andhra rashtram met in Hyderabad and leaders from both regions participated in it.
Andhra leaders: Bejawada Gopal Reddy, Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, Alluri Satyanarayana Raju, Gautu Lachchnna
Telangana Leaders: Boorgula Ramakrishna Rao, Konda Venkat Reddy, Marri Chenna reddy, J.V Narasimhulu
Both groups came to an agreement on the formation of state and on 1st November 1956. Thus Andhra Pradesh became 1st state which formed on the basis language.
Then the PM Nehru on 5th March 1955 while he was in tour of Nizamabad district of Telangana state was asked to comment on the Andhra Pradesh state, in the reply he made a statement “ EK MASSON BHOLI BHALI LADKI KO EK NATKAT LADKE KE SAAT SHAADI KIYA JAA RAHA HAI, CHAHE TOH WHO MILKE REH SAKTE HAI UA BICHAD SAKTE HAI” (In translation – an innocent girl (Telangana) is being wed to a clever by (Andhra Rashtram) it is of their choice to continue or to get separated. Here he speaks about the plebiscite i.e. a referendum.
The main points is treaty made during the merge: ( Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1956)
· If one region gets post of chief minister then the other region has to get the post of deputy chief minister and out the ministries of home, finance, revenue, trade, planning, industries any of the two ministries should be given to Telangana MLA’s ( As soon as Sanjeeva Reddy of Andhra region became CM of AP be abolished the post of deputy CM and it was reinstated recently)
· Prohibition of liquor consumption in Andhra Region but on in telangana (The excise amount collected in telangana was used by AP but not Telangana)
· Cost of Administration should be in ration of 2:1 (Andhra: telangana) (The surplus of Telangana which was left by Nizam was used by AP state)
· Appointment of jobs on the ration of population (now the qualifications were set high which made the Urdu educated youth unqualified)
· If there is a need to remove government job holders then they should be removed in equal ratio. (If the recruitment was not an equal ratio don’t expect the removal will be in same ratio)
· Residence of 12 years was compulsory to get the jobs (WHICH WAS BROUGHT DOWN to 4 YEARS by agitation of JAI ANDHRA in 1970’s)
· ANDHRA PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BUY LANDS OF TELANGANA FARMERS
· Cabinet allocation must be in ratio of 3:2 (Andhra: Telangana) and Muslim from telangana must be in cabinet.
Detail Report of Gentlemen agreement was Disobeyed:
Agreement : If the Chief Minister is from Andhra, the Deputy Chief Minister will be from Telengana and vice- versa.
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Agreement: The Cabinet will consist of members in proportion of 60 to 40 per cent for Andhra and Telengana respectively. Out of the 40 per cent Telengana Ministers one will be a Muslim from Telengana. (Since Telangana has considerably high percentage of Muslim population)
How was it disobeyed? No. It was not disobeyed. Because it’s not related to common men. Telangana politicians didn’t lose the chance to get berths in the cabinet.
Trivia: But our Telangana ministers were unsuccessful in preventing the discrimination by Andhra CM lead, Andhra dominated cabinet. Of all the 56 years of United Andhra Pradesh’s existence, it was ruled by CMs from Andhra region for 50 years. A mere 6 years were ruled by 3 CMs from Telangana region namely:
PV Narasimha Rao - 30 Sept 1971 – 10 Jan 1973 (later on PM of India1991-96)
Marri Chenna Reddy - 6 Mar 1978 - 11 Oct 1980 and 3 Dec 1989 – 17 Dec 1990 Served as CM for two terms. National Disaster Management Authority chairman M Sasidhar Reddy is his son.
Tanguturi Anjaiah - 11 Oct 1980 – 24 Oct 1982 .
As you might have observed, none of these 3 CMs from Telangana region completed a full term as CM.
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Agreement: A Regional Council will be established for the Telengana area with a view to secure its all- round development in accordance with its needs and requirements.
The Regional Council will consist of 20 members and all of them must be from Telangana.
The Regional Council will be a statutory body empowered to deal with and decide about matters mentioned above and those relating to planning and development, irrigation and other projects, industrial development within the general plan and recruitment to services in so far as they relate to Telengana area. If there is a difference of opinion between the views of the Regional Council and the Government of State, a reference may be made to the Government of India for final decision.
How was it disobeyed? Here is an excerpt from The Telegraph. “In the mid-1970s, the Telangana Regional Standing Committee, mandated by the “gentlemen’s agreement”, was replaced by a regional development board with ostensibly wider powers over planning and funds. But it was gradually made toothless.
Chenna Reddy, who was chief minister in 1978-80 and 1989-90, did not want a rival body to challenge him. “Why should there be such a body when the entire government led by me is pro-Telangana?” he had said. Chenna Reddy is considered as the back stabber of the 1969 Telangana movement since he shamelessly merged Telangana Praja Samiti party with congress which won 11 out of 14 MP seats in Telangana. \
When Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy was chief minister (2004-2009), he denied the board funds and even a decent office to function from, said Uppunutala Purushottam Reddy, former minister and the board’s last chairman. The board still exists on paper but since the 2009 elections, no chairman has been nominated.
YSR, a staunch opponent of Telangana statehood, had nominated Purushottam Reddy as board chairman in early 2006 after the agitation picked up.
“But I was never given a say in the plans for the region or even allowed to tour the region. In his final days, YSR even had the board office thrown out of a government building,” Purushottam Reddy said.”
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Agreement: The expenditure of the central and general administration of the State should be borne proportionately by the two regions and the balance of income from Telengana should be reserved for expenditure on the development of Telengana area. This arrangement will be reviewed after five years and can be continued for another five years if the Telengana members of the Assembly so desire
How was it disobeyed? This is the most important clause of the agreement and the disobedience of which resulted in the movement. This part of the agreement was never obeyed. Andhra has a very low share of income. The funds which are supposed to be spent in Telangana region were diverted for the development of Andhra region. The sole aim of the unification of Andhra and Hyderabad states was to come out of the financial crisis which was iced with sweet words like Telugu jati, Telugu thalli, one language one state etc., I can support my argument by the following:
Here is what First SRC said “The existing Andhra state has faced a financial problem of some magnitude ever since it was created; and in comparison with Telangana, the existing Andhra state has a low per capita revenue. Telangana, on the other hand, is much less likely to be faced with financial embarrassment… Whatever the explanation may be … the result of the unification will be to exchange some settled sources of revenue, out of which development schemes may be financed, for financial uncertainty similar to that with which Andhra is now faced. Telangana claims to be progressive and from an administrative point of view, unification, it is contended, is not likely to confer any benefit on this area” (SRC Report: para 376)
“…to reject the theory of “one language one state” which is neither justified on grounds of linguistic homogeneity, because there can be more than one state speaking the same language without offending the linguistic principle, nor practicable, since different language groups, including the vast Hindi speaking population of the Indian Union, cannot always be consolidated to form distinct linguistic units´. (SRC Report: para 163)
Comments made in Andhra Patrika:
There is no answer to the question raised by the leaders of Telangana that if Telangana will not get any additional benefits by joining Visalandhra, why should it join at all?
Benefits to Andhra if Vishalandhra (yet to be formed Andhra Pradesh was called as Vishalandhra in those days) is formed
- A ready-made, well-developed capital city;
- Advantages on social and cultural fronts;
- Development of transport and communication facilities; and,
- Development of irrigation projects in Krishna and Godavari basins by mobilizing resources from 20 districts of Visalandhra, instead of 8 districts of Andhra.´(Andhra Patrika: 04-11-1955)
And there are numerous quotes by Andhra leaders who clearly expressed their wish to get Hyderabad and secure a capital.
The contribution of Telangana to the state’s revenues has all along been more than 50%. The region is literally encircled by two major rivers of south India, Krishna and Godavari, and is traversed by a large number of tributaries of these rivers. It is one of the largest coal producing areas of the country and is rich in forest wealth, granite, limestone and other natural resources. It has inherited fairly well developed assets like the railway system, industrial units and the capital city from the Nizam. In spite of all these advantages the region has remained backward not only because of the neglect meted out to it but also because of the unending exploitation of its resources, natural as well as financial, for the development of other regions of the state.
Here is a research article with all the statistics and numbers. It was submitted to the Govt. of AP in 1969.
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Agreement : The position of Urdu in the administrative and judicial structure existing at present in the Telengana area may continue for five years , when the position may be reviewed by the Regional Council.Knowledge of Telugu should not be insisted upon at the time of recruitment but they should be required to pass a prescribed Telugu test in two years after appointment.
How was it disobeyed? Since Telangana people were educated in Urdu rather than Telugu or English, this region people lost job opportunities. Initially in the administrative section lot of people from Andhra were given jobs citing the reason that they are well educated and well versed in English. And these people who got the high ranking positions brought their kith and kin and placed them in good positions. This is reflected even now. Of all the 5000 employees working in the Secretariat, not even 10% belong to Telangana.
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Agreement: Some kind of domicile rule, e.g., residence for 12 years should be provided in order to assure the prescribed proportion to recruitment of services for Telengana area.
How was it disobeyed? From the time of the Nizam itself there were Mulki rules. It safeguarded the interests of locals.
To safeguard the interests of comparatively less educated Telangana youth, it was made mandatory that one must be a local candidate to get a job in Telangana region or he/she must be residing in the same region not less than 12 years. Many migrants got fake documents of residence proof and got jobs in Hyderabad. It is not so hard to get a residence proof in the 1950’s and that too when most of the government officials are from the same region. As a result, Telangana youth agitated with the slogan “Non-Mulki Go Back” (Non locals go back) and this fueled the 1969 Telangana agitation.
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Agreement: Sales of agricultural lands in the Telengana area (is) to be controlled by the Regional Council.
How was it disobeyed? The least respected clause of the agreement is this one. Did you ever hear of something called “regional council” to buy agricultural land in Telangana? The majority of the land in and around Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts are under the control of Andhra real estate businessmen.
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NOW LETS TALK SOMETHING ABOUT HYDERABAD(GOLDEN EGG)
This FACEBOOK generation does not have any insight, information knowledge about Hyderabad.
Hyderabad is developed by us (Andhra people)
I feel puzzled when I hear this statement from few (under educated) youth, once again into the history when the great floods of 1900’s ravaged away Hyderabad, Nizam ordered engineers to design the city in proper way the result was Mokhsa Gundam Vishveshwarayya the legendary civil engineer designed the city with good sanitary system with well lined drainage canals on the calculated basis. Now the only aberration here is the addition of 13 more districts to Telangana districts and Hyderabad was named as capital. What kind of justice is this? Taxes on Telangana people were used to build the capital and who are enjoying it?
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We (people of Andhra) brought infrastructure to Hyderabad
It’s the world’s most pathetic joke I ever heard. What is the capital of Andhra Rashtram? Kurnool, fine where was the secretariat? Guess what? It was in TENTS. Kurnool the Capital of Andhra State before merger don’t even have one single infrastructural building that is required to put up a capital. Where was its secretariat? It was in tents. And papers and documents of that period state that pigs used to disturb the meetings and eat away the files. They had a special budget for protecting files from pigs. And six months they were not at work because of rains which used to effect the tents were they used to work. Such pathetic was the condition. Still they claim they sacrificed it for us
Now Hyderabad was a place with an airport, railway lines to connect it to mail land (build by Nizam).
The list of buildings and Infrastructure Hyderabad had before the merger, Assembly, Secretariat, High Court, Kachiguda Railway Station, Nampally Railway Station, Secuderabad Railway Station, Begumpet Airport, Hakimpet Airport, Osmania University, City College, Women’s College, Monda Market, Mojzamjahi Market, Abids Market, Charminar, Golconda Fort, Mecca Masjid Taramati-Tomb Qutubghai TombsSalar-jung-museum, Husainsagar, Osman-sagar-lake and more..
Here are some of the statements made by the ‘rulers’ of Andhra state prior to formation of AP
"If Hyderabad joins us, then all our problems will be resolved, but how it is possible, how we can
Achieve, we have to think"- T Prakasam, 1st CM of Andhra state
"We do not have a place to put-up Capital City, not even a place to setup District header quarters"-Kadapa Koti Reddy, 1953
"In Andhra, we do not have cities which are developed in Trading; we have VISHAKA (harbor) that too a small one”.A. Goal Rao in 1954
Yes things were also built here even after unification of the state but to my doubt were all those things where of no use to settlers? Did they build them just for philanthropic purpose?
And of the people of coastal Andhra were the great in their entrepreneurship skills they could have invested in right there where they were and developed it. This clearly indicates that they had some easy benefits which brought to them here.
Such was the Imperialism shown by the Andhra Politicos.
Like all cities elsewhere, Hyderabad City has also experienced growth in terms of population and space.
Growth of the city turns futile, if city's growth is not planned properly, the target group of beneficiaries of development is not identified in a precise manner and the development of the local inhabitants is not envisaged. Like any other states there has been an artificial development because of the IT. After that false boom people of Andhra started shifting heavily and this saw a development of few areas like
Kukatpally, Miyapur, Madhapur Jubilee hills and Banjara hills which once upon time considered as jungles. Now, let us take a look at the pattern of development of residential colonies in the city and its peripheries. Most of the new residential development took place in the eastern, northern and north -western parts. The development in the south, which has always been the place of habitation of the local populace, has been very insignificant. It is not out of context to mention that an overwhelming proportion of these are migrants. The picture that emerges is that the original inhabitants of the city continue to live in squalor and decay; the migrants live in relative luxury in newly-built residential neighborhoods appropriating the infrastructural facilities that were meant for the local people. This was only to the high end people and Aam Admi dint get anything out of it.
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Did the slums of Hyderabad develop in anyway?
Hyderabad is characterized by a very significant presence of the urban poor, with a growing poverty profile. Slum settlements have multiplied over decades and the living conditions of the poor have not improved. Environmental decline, vehicular pollution, inadequate basic services and infrastructure in the poor settlements hit the poor hardest. Slums are scattered across the city and surrounding municipalities, with high population densities and the number of people inhabiting them estimated to be around two million. People of Telangana had put their sweat in developing the city and all the fruits of development have been hijacked by Andhra migrants and local politicians. Does anyone wonder where the native people of these villages are now? They shifted to neighboring villages and you can find majority of them running road-side chai shops and working as laborers in Andhra establishments. When the original Hyderabad isn’t able to enjoy the fruits of the so called development by Andhraites, should we still regard their contribution as ‘development of Hyderabad’?
Population comparison
United Andhra leaders are trying to create false notion that 40 lakh Andhra people are residing in the city of Hyderabad. Hyderabad is in the heart of Telangana and is surrounded by Telangana districts. Greater Hyderabad has been formed by including parts of Telangana districts. A close look at the statistics would reveal that the population in Hyderabad was 3.6 million in the year 2001. This has grown to become more than 6.8 million by 2011. The rise in the number of people residing in the city has catapulted it among the most populated Indian cities. It has also been observed that the native Muslim community in Hyderabad forms about 40% of the total population, because they stay in the major share of Hyderabad land. So, it would roughly be around 30 lakhs. Now, of the remaining 45 lakh population, these Andhra leaders are saying that 40 lakh are from Andhra. So it should be an exaggeration! A realistic estimate would be 5 to 10 lakh. This indicates the standards to which the Andhra leaders seem to have fallen to claim Hyderabad for their vested interests.
Damage done to Hyderabad
Dr.B.R.Ambedkar suggested Hyderabad second capital of India. He said Hyderabad is better than
Delhi. Now were we Fifth position. Is it the development or damage?
It’s a fact that Hyderabad has been victim and destroyed in the last 40 years. Where have the lakes gone, where has Urdu gone, who is responsible for communal politics in Hyderabad and Telangana, Who has taken Wakf lands, Who destroyed Telangana culture and language, what is the Matlab of setting up of 40 SEZs in Atraf Baldia out of 50 SEZs in AP? What is the use of creating GHMC when they can’t even manage street lights and slums? In India any citizen can go and settle anywhere in the country, but why
Andhra leadership fears if they have not committed any sins. Visakhapatnam is fast emerging as a counter metropolis in its own way. In reality, Visakhapatnam is the fastest growing million cities in Asia according to Census of India Organization. Per capita DDP of Visakhapatnam was Rs 2026; in Telangana while per capita DDP in Hyderabad is Rs 1758. So who is developed and who is damaged?
Damage through Universities
There has been a huge damage done through universities by shifting major universities of Telangana to Hyderabad and showing the development at the cost of rural Telangana. Addition to the six universities with regional jurisdiction, there are six more universities having their jurisdiction over the entire state.
None of these universities is located in the Telangana region. Of these six universities, the University of
Health Sciences is located in the Coastal Andhra region (Vijayawada) and the Women's University in the Rayalaseema region (Tirupati), while all the other four universities, i.e., Agricultural University,
Technological University, Open University and Telugu University are in the capital city. Further, the Agricultural and Technological Universities have their campuses and colleges in the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions as well, but no such facility exists in the Telangana region. It may be recalled that the Technological University was actually started at Warangal in the Telangana region, but was subsequently shifted to Hyderabad for inexplicable reasons. Similarly, the Open University was initially launched at Nalgonda in the Telangana Region, but was later started in the capital city, again for no valid reasons. There are two institutions of higher learning deemed to be universities, namely, the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences and the S.V. Institute of Medical Sciences. The former is located in the capital city and the latter at Tirupati in the Rayalaseema region. There are two more institutions in the capital city which are fully funded by the University Grants Commission. They are: The Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, a deemed university and the University of Hyderabad, established in the year 1975, as an offshoot of the Six Point Formula, the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University which was originally started at Warangal and subsequently shifted to the capital city does not have even a single college located in the Telangana region. Even with regard to the starting of private engineering colleges, the Telangana region has been discriminated against. There are nine government medical colleges in the state, out of which four are in the Coastal Andhra region, two in the Rayalaseema region, two in the capital city and only one in the 28 Telangana regions. The three nursing colleges in the government sector are shared equally by Coastal Andhra, Rayalaseema and the capital city, with the Telangana region drawing a blank.
So don't you think demand of seperate state fair enough?!!
Now after all struggle, we achieved out dream,
My Dear Andhra Friends this is not against you people, this is against our discrimination, This is about our rights, For us, it's a fight for self-rule, for self-respect, and most importantly, a fight against the exploitation of resources which belong to us.
Today, if you have an HR manager in a company which is from Andhra, he will definitely not hire a candidate from Telangana.
Besides which, there are differences in our [Telengana and Andhra Pradesh] cultures, dialect and festivals.
As post title speaks about life after New Telangana state, but im not Premonitionist to talk about. but yes atleast above discrimination would not be there, increase our job % in Secretariat and all over TG.
Though we divide by states we are still INDIANS. we earn for our family and country. Still have any doubts!! just comment below will reply u ASAP
Jai Telangana
Jai Hind
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