NAIL THE LIES,
HAIL A.P. FORMATION DAY!
HAIL A.P. FORMATION DAY!
That the formation of Andhra Pradesh was a
dream-come-true for the Telugu people, for an overwhelming majority in
Telangana itself at that time, is an indisputable historical fact. The
Goebbelsian lies propagated by the separatists that it was a betrayal of Telangana
[i.e. Nizam Telangana] and that Telanganites were cheated into merger
with Andhra and ever since were/are horribly exploited by Andhras – rulers,
capitalists, other ‘settlers’ alike – have no basis in historical or current
facts of life and socio-economic conditions. That the Hyderabad State Congress
Committee under the leadership of Swami Ramananda Tirtha had, as far back as in
1953, passed a unanimous resolution for the trifurcation of Hyderabad State and
merging of its linguistic regions with the
respective linguistic regions in the neighboring provinces, that a Vishalandhra
movement raged in all intensity and popularity mainly in Telangana districts
during 1949-56, that even the people’s poet of Telangana, Kaloji, now hailed as
an icon for separate Telangana, was a fervent integrationist (veera vishalandhravadi) then and welcomed the formation of Andhra Pradesh in his typical poetic
style, that the Hyderabad Assembly in its discussions on Fazal Ali Commission
Report rejected its proposal to keep Telangana separate for five years before
merger with Andhra, in that as many as 103 [59 from Telangana] representatives out of 174 favored immediate
creation of Vishalandhra while only 29 [15 from T] favored a Telangana State and the communists of the times were leading a
great movement for Vishalandhra and threatened to force a crisis by resigning
and causing fresh elections to the Assembly, that after the 5 March 1956
declaration of Nehru at Nizamabad for Vishalandhra there has not been a single voice
of protest from Telangana till formation of AP, that formation of AP was
jubilantly celebrated all over Telangana and not a voice was raised for
separation till 1969-71 and then again most of the Telangana leaders became
fervent integrationists and averted separation in 1973 by foregoing Mulki Rules
and Regional Committee even, and that there was again no considerable voice of
protest thereafter till 2001-02, that the development and cultural intermixing
of Telangana people with other Telugus proceeded at a fast pace, much faster
than in case of other linguistic regions of the Hyderabad State that merged in
Maharashtra and Karnataka, are all enough historical facts to nail the lies of
the separatists and celebrate the formation day of Andhra Pradesh as a day of
devotion and commitment to the unity and integrity of the Telugu nationality. §§§
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