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. Some of the successful agitations 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.
Latest State Incharge Digvijay Singh promised that a decision will be made and it will be in favor of the Telangana statehood in the Core committee meeting held on 12th July. 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 sure that the Telangana bill is not going to face any problem to get through the parliament.
(AW-SriJa)
