Sunday, January 31, 2010

Andhra Pradesh - Farcical Growth

The Anti-Telangana proponents, the so called SeemaAndhra leaders always begin their speech with this statement.
The growth of Andhra Pradesh will suffer, if Telangana becomes a separate state.
Here are few statistics that tell us, how backward the state of Andhra Pradesh has been. What these statistics don’t tell us is the spate of Telangana.

These are few of the important statistics that go into the human development index.

15th Out of 32 states and UT’s on the basis of per-capita income. Rs 26,211 against national average of Rs 25,956 <<2005-2006 figures>>
17th on the basis of vaccination coverage. 46% against the national average of 44% <>
22nd on the basis of Literacy. 63.7% against the national average of 67.6%. this rate is less than J&K <>
12th on the basis of electrification <>

Is this what we need to preserve?
They always talk of TamilNadu, but don’t realize that TamilNadu is a smaller state. (90% of TamilNadu area(130,058 sqKM) = Telangana area(114,840 sqKM)).
Is that not the reason for their development? SMALL is BEAUTIFUL!


Sources: the ever useful Wikipedia

Comparision, Hyderabad State of 1941 and the nizam's area in 2001

The princely state of Hyderabad was merged with the Union of India in 1948. Thereafter the different regions of Hyderabad state, namely Marathwada, Telangana, and Hyderabad-Karnataka have been merged with Maharashtra, Andhra and Karnataka respectively on linguistic basis in 1956.

Has this merger been good for the people of the Hyderabad State? There has been a vociferous demand from Telangana region for demerger. There has been a demand from Hyderabad-Karnataka region and Marathwada region for special attention. Only Telangana is closer to the state’s seat of power, the other regions are disadvantaged in that they are distant from their capital cities and have lesser representation in their respective assemblies owing to their smaller size.

Since Telangana was closer to Marathwada on socio-economic and human development parameters than to Andhra.

Let us compare, how these regions have grown independently of each other.

The Literacy rate is a huge component in measuring the development. Here is the comparison of the regions.

Statistical data about Karnataka’s three districts Bidar, Raichuru and Gulbarga is not available for 1941.

So, I have limited this comparison to Marathwada.

Literacy rate
19412001

Marathwada
7.465
Telangana(Including Hyderabad)14.358.08

This decisively proves that Telangana has remained backward in spite of having a developed Hyderabad. Marathwada, though not extraordinary only goes to prove that Telangana should have grown much more than the growth that has been seen.

Sources:
Marathwada under the Nizams, 1724-1948 by By P. V. Kate
The State of Rayalaseema By A. Ranga Reddy

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Divide and Rule who is dividing whom? - Part-2





Undavalli comments and my responses.
1] It is not formation of Telangana; it is kicking out of Andhra people from Hyderabad.
Ans: As an Indian citizen you can live and do business anywhere irrespective of whether you are a kashmiri or malayalee. How can anyone kick anyone out of Hyderabad?
However, MLAS from Andhra and Seema will need to assemble outside Telangana in a new legislative assembly

2] Even if Telangana forms, the irrigation through canals is not possible in Telangana as the place is at a higher altitude.
Ans: Krishna and Godavari flow on the same Deccan Plateau at a higher altitude in Karnataka and Maharashtra. Why are there dams and canals in these states?

3] Telangana has lesser resources, the resource they had in 1956 was from tax on liquor. Ans: Resources of a place where average rainfall is higher than national average, where soil productivity is higher than national average, where electricity is produced much more than it is consumed, where rivers and their tributaries flow through its length and breadth may be lesser for Arun Kumar but they are much more than what can be consumed.
As far as liquor is concerned, what happened after the state is formed? You get tax on liquor from here and spend it on Kadapa and Vijayawada?  What are you doing with that money? Did you atleast construct a hospital worth a name in Telangana?

4] 2/3rds of Hyderabad assembly led by Burugula Ramakrishna Rao actually voted in favour of merger. First SRC recommended merger.
Ans: This is a lie fro somebody who has found that there is no logic to support his argument. Please see my posts for information.(
http://notchanakya.blogspot.com/2010/01/burugula-ramakrishna-raos-opinion.html
http://notchanakya.blogspot.com/2010/01/telangana-state-of-affairs.html )




Jalayagnam – facts (please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0f8r1I4aDU&feature=player_embedded , watch both the parts of this video explanation)
Do we really want Jalayagnam to succeed? The Kurnool floods being one of the results of Jalayagnam.
Even before Jalayagnam, Telangana was promised several irrigation programs, how many were implemented.
In Jalayagnam, the biggest promise for Telangana, Pranahita-chevella project has not started yet. It does not have an office after several years of announcement. Look at Polavaram, no clearances – no problem. People oppose – police protection.


Business will fly from Hyderabad
which business? Is it film industry?  IT industry? or Reliance?
Who should speak for whom?
T. Bharadwaja, film chambers president is on record saying film industry is going no where.
Mohandas Pai of Infosys is on record saying 25,000 people capacity facility at pocharam is under construction and they have no second thoughts.
People who spoke for IT and films never spoke for Reliance, so I don’t want to answer this question on Reliance. I want to ask them will Reliance move out of Kadapa, Anantpur ?


Naxalites will take over
This came from DGP. This makes me realize that
Anti-Telangana lobby has become so desperate now that DGP has to talk politics
Naxalism is a socio-economic problem manifesting itself as a threat to police and politicians. They never kill civilians. Why will people take to naxalism when they are economically well off?
Are naxalites not in AP? Not in Seema, not in Andhra?
They have always been here in AP. Telangana formation will neither benefit them nor harm them.
So, why are they supporting Telangana. The reason is simple, why Indians support Palestine? Why George Fernandes supports Telangana? We speak for what we think is right and dharma. Same case with naxalites


Divide and Rule who is dividing whom? - Part-1



Divide and Rule concepts from Britain.

Divide based on religion
Divide based on caste (by means of dalit electorate for dalit leaders)
Divide Indian opinion by offering princes equal footing with congress in legislature
they  did not divide people on the basis of language even on the face of demands, examples include Mysore, Madras, Bombay etc.


What did central government do?
·        They are re-establishing the state of Telangana
·        They are not carving it out from a united AP
·        They are not dividing the united AP based on their whim
Is this called divide and rule? Central government will continue to rule Telangana and Andhra, irrespective of whether they exist as separate states or as United AP.
What are the people speaking about Samikya Andhra doing? They are trying to divide people of Telangana based on irrelevant stuff. Here’s the analysis.


·        ·        Dividing Telangana based on religion. Muslims will suffer if they stay united with Telangana, but they will not suffer if they stay united with Telangana that would be in Andhra Pradesh.

Jamat-e-islami has come out in support of Telangana. MIM which represents only old city of Hyderabad has not taken a stand yet. What is the benefit that accrued to old city as a consequence of being in united AP that they will not get when the state of Telangana is formed?
MIM has 7 seats in assembly, they form 2.4% MLA’s in AP. They will form 5.9% in Telangana. Are they winning or losing? Their say in policy matters increases.

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·       ·        Divide opinion by means of leaders (only 2 from Hyderabad) who benefit from one big factionist family (from among 100 families who benefit by looting hyd. Visit http://www.r2iclubforums.com/forums/f38/separate-telangana-movement-part-iv-15753/index25.html#post242139)


There are few leaders, apparently acting under instructions from a rich fellow in seema, who demand Hyderabad as a union territory.
What a ridiculous demand. They forget they will not become MLA’s if Hyderabad were to become a union territory!!
What is the basis of the demand? Is it cosmopolitanism? If yes then Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata should become UT’s first. They are much more cosmopolitan.
Moreover, UT is a failed concept, Delhi could not sustain as a UT even when the place was the seat of central government. How can Hyderabad sustain as UT, being so distant from Delhi?

·     ·        Divide Telangana by illogical rumors
o   Arun Kumar Undavalli
o   Jalayagnam will address problems
o   Business
o   Naxalites
Pppart-2 will follow with my responses to these rumours.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Burugula RamaKrishna Rao's Opinion

Few less-unreasonable people among the vastly unreasnable in Andhra have moved away from samaykya andhra (so called)
They have come to the following opinions.
MP1 from Coastal districts: We are okay if the state of Telangana is formed, provided you provide proper logic.
MP2 from coastal districts: I am not against Telangana, but the logic of demand is not based on facts
1 - The rate of growth in Telangana is more than in Andhra
2 - Dams cannot be constructed in Telangana because the land is at a higher altitude.
3 - Telangana stalwart leaders like Burugula RamaKrishna Rao was favorable to the merger.
MLA1 from UttarAndhra: my region is much more backward than Telangana, so my region should form a new state before Telangana materializes.

Here's my response.
To MP1: Are you saying you put things in your common-minimum-program without logic?

To MP2:
1 - The growth has been so stupendous that farmers and weavers commit suicide. so stupendous that people die of flourosis  for want of drinking water, although they live close to the biggest masonry dam on planet.
2 - Maharashtra and Karnataka are at a much higher altitude than Telangana, that is how river flows from higher altitude to lower altitudes. by this yardstick no dam should exist in Karnataka and Maharashtra
3 - Burugula was never favorable to the merger. please read the scanned copies of his communication with Mr.Dhar on the merger issue at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hyderabad_CM_Burgula_Views_about_merger

To MLA1:
Please speak only about your region, why do you want to piggy back and trivialize Telangana state formation?
it's like this.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Bundle OF Lies about Formation of Andhra State

Bundle OF Lies about Andhra State Formation

Potti SriRamulu undertook fast-unto-death is truth. He sacrificed his life is truth.
What did he want? Why did he sacrifice his life?

To achieve separate state for Telugu speaking people is
a LIE
To carve out a Telugu speaking state by dividing Madras Presidency is a LIE
We read he died for the cause of Andhra State, that’s what people put up in wiki, that is what the CM says. The bloody Samaykya Andhra lobby in fact says he died for formation of Andhra Pradesh.
Consider this, if Central Government agreed to form a separate state of Telangana, and if Andhra Pradesh Government had passed a resolution in assembly favoring formation of Telangana.
In this scenario, will anybody go on a fast for formation of Telangana?

Similar situation existed when Potti SriRamulu undertook fast-unto-death.
The Central Government agreed to recommendations of JVP committee to form separate Andhra State.
The Madras Presidency assembly passed a resolution to this effect.

Will anybody undertake fast for Andhra in this scenario?
Potti Sriramulu did. Why? He was unhappy with one of the recommendations in JVP committee
that said, Andhras have no claim on Madras City.
He wanted Madras to be capital of Andhra, if not at least common capital of Andhra and Madras Presidency.
Did he achieve this even after his death? NO.


Dear Samaykya Andhra Lobby: please understand what potti sriramulu stood for and what he achieved.


(On the sidelines JVP committee did not have anybody from non-Telugu speaking areas of Madras. It had Pattabi SitaRamayya representing Telugu speaking areas of Madras. The others in the committee were Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhai Patel. Contrast this with demand for consultations today that people from non-Telangana areas of Andhra Pradesh be included in any consultations.)

BELOW is an article written by M Narayan Reddy on Potti Sriramulu and appeared in zeenews. This is based on historical data. (not from Textbooks that AP Govt. publishes!!)
M Narayan Reddy 

1. The 57th death anniversary of Amarajeevi Potti Sreeramulu was marked on 15 December, 2009. Hence, it is an appropriate occasion to pay our ‘homage’ to the great ‘Sarvodaya Leader’ who sacrificed his life after a long period of ‘fasting’ for 52 days for a laudable cause. It is also a proper occasion to recall the objective of his ‘fast’ and the events that followed his martyrdom on December 15, 1952. 

2. At the time of his ‘fast’ Madras Province was under the rule of Congress party and Sri Rajagopalachary was the Chief Minister of the state. In this context it is pertinent to note that the Madras Government had not ‘imposed any restrictions’ on his ‘fast’. Consequently, he was able to continue his ‘fast’ uninterrupted for 52 days before his death on December 15, 1952 in contrast to what happened in AP with respect to KCR Rao’s ‘fast’ which he commenced on November 29, 2009. 

3. In the above connection it may be recalled that there was a controversy on the purpose of the ‘fast’. There were two versions of this controversy as stated below:

a) To achieve Andhra state, or 
b) To get Madras city made the capital of Andhra state 

In the above circumstances it may be necessary to refer to the facts and events that had taken place during the Andhra Movement as described hereunder. 
4. Agitation for Andhra state: In May 1913, the First Andhra Mahasabha was held in Bapatla to launch a people’s movement for a separate Andhra province. It was a popular movement as leaders from all sections of the society participated in it. In later years similar conferences were held every year which passed resolutions urging the Central Government to create Andhra province by bifurcation of Madras province. But the then British Government had not accepted the demand for Andhra province until Independence in 1947. In this context it is significant to note that leaders of Rayalaseema had not supported the demand for Andhra province for many years as they feared domination of leaders from coastal districts in all fields, including Council of Ministers, Legislature and Administration of the new state. 

5. Dhar Commission, 1948: After Independence the ‘Constituent Assembly’ appointed Dhar Commission in June 1948 to examine the issue of formation of linguistic states. Andhra leaders submitted many representations to this commission for the creation of Andhra province. The commission submitted the report in December 1948 to the Central Government. This report was not favourable to the demand of Andhra province as well as to other linguistic states. Hence, there was much criticism against this report as it had not favoured linguistic states. Consequently, the Congress party appointed a “three-man committee” in Jaipur session of the Congress. This committee consisted of the following three members: 

i) Jawaharlal Nehru 
ii) Vallabhbai Patel 
iii) Pattabhi Sitaramaiah (a great leader of Andhra) 

This committee was popularly known as JVP committee. 

6. The JVP Committee: 

a) The JVP Committee recommended for the creation of Andhra province with undisputed Telugu areas. It also ‘advised the Andhras to give up their claim on Madras city’. 

b) Implementation of JVP Committee report: 

The Central Government accepted the JVP Committee Report and advised the Madras Government to take steps for the creation of Andhra province. 

7. Madras Government decision: 

On December 7, 1949 the Madras Government appointed a ‘Partition Committee’ consisting of seven members: 

i. PS Kumaraswamy Raja (Chief Minister) - Chairman
ii. M Bhaktavastalam - Member
iii. K Madhava Menon - -do-
iv. T Krishnamachari - -do-
v. B Gopala Reddy - -do-
vi. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy - -do-
vii. T Prakasam - -do-

The ‘Partition Committee’ was asked to consider the division of assets and liabilities of the proposed provinces, i.e. Madras and Andhra. 

8. The Partition Committee report: This committee recommended formation of ‘Andhra province’ before January 26, 1950 with 11 districts of Andhra region and 3 talukas of Bellary district. Other recommendations are as below: 

a) Madras should not be capital of Andhra province even temporarily. 
b) Before January 26 Andhra should get its own capital. 
c) The Madras Government should give Rs 1 crore to Andhra for ‘renunciation’ of all offices kept in Madras. 

This report was accepted by the Madras Government and it decided to extend the date of formation of Andhra province to April 1, 1950. 

9. Dissenting note by T Prakasam: 

Sri T Prakasam, a member of the Partition Committee gave a ‘dissenting note’ in the report. In this dissent, he suggested that Madras should become temporary capital of Andhra province. 

10. Settlement of Andhra Issue: 

(a) The two demands made by Andhras were settled with unanimous decision of the ‘Partition Committee’ which included 3 stalwarts of Andhra region, i.e. (i) B Gopala Reddy (ii) Neelam Sanjiva Reddy and (iii) T Prakasam. And the settlement reached was that “Andhra province should be formed by April 1, 1950 and Madras would not be the capital of the proposed Andhra province”. 

(b) It can be seen from the above that the decision for the creation of ‘Andhra Province’ was taken as back as December 1949 with the ‘consent’ of all the important leaders of Andhra region. It may also be noted that all ‘claims for Madras City as capital of Andhra province were given up’ with the consent of responsible Andhra leaders. In other words there was no other issue pending by December 1950 except the implementation of the above ‘settlement’. 

In view of the above settlement there was no scope for any further agitation or protests by Andhra people except on the question of implementation of the settlement. 

11. Why he fasted: In the light of the above ‘facts and events’ we may now examine the objective of the fast undertaken by Amarajeevi Potti Sreeramulu. It is well known that Sri Sreeramulu commenced his fast-unto-death in Madras in the last week of October 1952. The reasons for this fast given in ‘his own words’ were listed in several documents, which were identified as his letters and manifestoes and issued before the fast commenced. Some of his statements in these documents are cited below to appreciate his ‘object and feelings’ in the matter. 

(a) In his reply to Swamy Sitaram’s letter dated October 2, 1952, he clarified about the object of his fast. The relevant para is extracted below: 

“My Fast begins only for determining the future of Madras City”, he declared. “During my fast, people themselves will come to a decision….. My fast is intended to make the people and at least some Tamils in the City to agree to Madras becoming a separate State. Therefore, if I leave the question of the City in doubt and undertake the fast, I shall be failing in my purpose and duty”.

(b) He also issued two manifestoes before commencing the ‘fast’ on the following dates:

(i) First manifesto - 30-09-1952
(ii) Final manifesto- 19-10-1952

(c) In his manifestoes he stated that he wanted Madras City as the capital of Andhra state and he wanted to focus on this issue by way of the fast. In his final manifesto issued on October 10, 1952 he stated as under: 

“A very serious attempt has to be made to bring about an agreed settlement over the FUTURE of Madras City”. All reasonable Andhras and Tamils should be brought together and made to come to an ‘Agreement’ over the Madras City COMMON to Andhras and Tamils. 

(d) In another letter dated: 13-9-1952 addressed to Sri Bh Laxminarayan, Advocate, Madras, he had described his “intense attachment to Madras City” in the following words: 

“I am doing this in the belief that all parts of the country can progress on peaceful lines. I was born and educated in Madras City. It is not my intention to coerce anybody. I have no hope that I shall survive unless this object is achieved. I am undertaking this fast in the belief that all those who are connected with this question will look at it in no narrow manner”. 

As regards ‘Andhra State’ Sri Sreeramulu stated in the draft manifesto in his own words which are described below: 

“That the desire of our people for a separate State is just and legitimate has been conceded by the State and Central Governments. Today there is no question about the need of a State. There is unanimity both among the people and the Government on this question. They are all anxious about an early formation of the State”. 

It is abundantly clear from the above statement that Sri Sreeramulu was satisfied with the Government decision on Andhra state. But as regards Madras city he had his own ‘ideas’. In this connection he urged Tamils and Andhra people living in Madras City to come to an agreement to make Madras city as a common capital for both. In this context he also referred to the wishes of Andhra people living in Madras city in the following words: 

“The Andhra leaders of the city do not want an Andhra State without Madras. Sri Unnava Lakshminarayana wants an agitation for Hyderabad. There are others who are content with only a State. That the desire of our people for a separate State is just and legitimate, has been conceded by the State and Central Governments”. 

It is thus clear that the “Agenda” of the fast was in respect of “Madras city” only as the capital of Andhra state or a common capital of Tamils and Andhras. But this issue was already settled by the Central Government as well as Madras Government in December 1950 and accepted by responsible Andhra leaders as mentioned above. In such a situation his desire was not fulfilled by his fast. As a result a precious life was lost on the one hand and people of Andhra lost a great Sarvodaya Leader in him on the other. 

Conclusion: There is much confusion in the minds of many of the present generation of leaders and youth about the object of the fast. In this context many people think that he fasted for achieving Andhra State while some others express the view that his fast was responsible for the formation of Andhra Pradesh in 1956. And what is more surprising is that these versions prominently figured in press and TV interviews as well as statements following the agitation for ‘United Andhra’ in Andhra region. So the facts mentioned above are crystal clear to remove all ‘misgivings’ about the “Agenda or object” of the fast undertaken by Amarajeevi Potti Sreeramulu. Whatever may be the outcome of his fast there is a need for honouring his memory in glowing terms. 

(M Narayan Reddy is a former MP from Nizamabad) 

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Telangana - Survival Of The FITTEST



Why do Telanganas cry fowl, when it comes to jobs? After all in any job, it is the fittest who survive.


Before I begin to answer this question, let me first let people know that I completely agree with the statement
"Only fittest survive"
So, why do I speak for Telanganas jobs? It is a level playing field in any case.


When two lions fight with each other over a territory, the fittest lion survives and passes its genes to the next generation. This is survival of the fittest.
What happens when a lion and a cub fight over a territory? Obviously the cub is destined to lose, it is destined to die. It can win nowhere. Do you call this survival of the fittest or murder of a juvenile?


Am I comparing Andhra with a Lion? Yes but it is relative vis-a-vis Telangana.
I would call them a cub in relation to Madras Presidency (Telugu would not survive and grow on the face of great attention being paid to majority Tamil)




So, why did this conflict arise? Why should Andhra and Telangana fight for survival?
When the merger happened, people of Telangana were fully aware that they would be like the cub competing with lion. So there was opposition for the merger.
The opposition was nullified by granting few safeguards to Telanganas (called Gentlemen's agreement, few items are listed below) that 
·        We would not compete
o   All govt. Jobs in Telangana including Hyderabad would belong to Telangana
o   Revenues generated in Telangana would be spent only in Telangana
o   A regional development board would be set up
o   Any critical decision(decisions like land in HYD being sold) would not be made without approval from the regional development board
o   CM of the state will be from Telangana in alternate terms, and when CM is not from Telangana, the deputy would be from Telangana.




This agreement was never implemented, and violated as early as 1956 when the state formed. The seeds for demerger were hence sown right after the merger.
The murmurings developed into a huge struggle in 1969 that consumed close to 400 lives. The party that stood for separate state won 11 out of 12 loksabha seats in the region. The other seat did not go to anti-demerger thought as well.


The central government promised that the safeguards will be renewed. PV Narsimha Rao from Telangana would become CM of the state and enforce these safeguards.
He lost his job when he tried to implement the safeguards because majority of MLA’s (non-Telangana regions always had majority by virtue of their population) opposed this.


The safeguards like 6Point formula, 8Point formula etc. were violated right after their being made statutory safeguards in 1969.
In 1985, NT Rama Rao was CM and he passed GO 610 to implement a part of this safeguard in 107 of 200+ departments. This involved repatriating 65,000 non-Telangana employees in 107/200+ AP Govt. departments. The figure of 65,000 was a huge under estimate in that many people produced mulki certificates that were not verified. These 65,000 have not been repatriated till date.
The Girglani commission setup during then CM Naidu's term to find GO610 anomalies found close to 300,000 people who needed to be repatriated. Meaning the safeguards was being violated all along.


To add insult to injury, Hyderabad which was always considered part of Telangana would be called a free zone. The physical size of Hyderabad was increased by more than 3 times in the name of Greater Hyderabad and the area made non-accessible to people of Telangana for jobs.
This is when KCR launched his fast-unto-death.