Monday, September 16, 2013
Editorial, "Fight Electoral Corruption, Stay United!", in LAW ANIMATED WORLD, 15 September 2013, Vol. 9, Part 2, No. 17 issue.
FIGHT ELECTORAL CORRUPTION: STAY UNITED!
A mammoth mass movement, to
keep up the unity of the Telugu State of Andhra Pradesh at all costs, and
despite the betrayal and opportunist politics of all the major political
parties of the State and the Union, is raging since the last one and a half
month in the thirteen districts of Seemandhra and its ramifications were seen
in Telangana and Hyderabad also with the integrationists in Telangana too,
under the leadership of Visalandhra Mahasabha, staging vociferous protests and
dharnas to pressurize the Union Ministers from Andhra to resign in support of
the Telugu Unity cause. More important, the Andhra Pradesh Non-Gazetted
Officers have jumped into the movement for unity of the State and for the first
time in Hyderabad organized a big meeting in support of the unity of Telugu
people against all odds. Though the Congress Working Committee had hastily
announced its decision to bifurcate the State for its nefarious political ends,
particularly with the corrupt motive to garner electoral support in Telangana
region for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in view of decimation of its
ranks in Seemandhra, the Union Government could not take any further step in
that direction in view of the open and raging people’s protests, hartals and
paralysis of administration in the entire seemandhra region and now rumors are
rife that the ruling party and the Union Government may try to declare
Hyderabad as a union territory and common capital to assuage the aggrieved
feelings of the seemandhra people and at the same time make the road clear for
consensual bifurcation on those lines. But the Telangana JAC and the TRS have
already declared their bitter opposition to any such move and are adamant that
they would not accept anything less than the ten districts including Hyderabad
and no common capital. As such the move is not palatable to either party in the
troubled state and we appeal to the people of Telangana not to strike down the
very branch on which they are sitting, remember their heroic struggles and
sacrifices for Vishalandhra in 1946-56, and settle for maximum possible
autonomy by way of a regional council as suggested by the Srikrishna Committee
as the sixth and the best option. We urge Telugu people of all regions to rise
above the regional divides and work for Telugu unity and progress with all
amity and accord. §§§
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