POLITICS
OF ANARCHY
seems to be prevalent in the State of Telangana
day in and day out right from its inception and that has turned now into a kind
of mental disorder with all sorts of crazy schemes being mooted by the
chauvinist, eccentric Chief Minister who is acting as though the state is his
personal fief. Whereas our Constitution exhorts all citizens ‘to develop the
scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform’, this
gentleman decides to abandon the grand Secretariat buildings in the prime location
of Hyderabad perched amidst the scenic beauty of the majestic Hussain Sagar Lake
for what primarily stings to him as ‘vaastu
dosha’ [errors of (quack) architecture] to the Erragadda
Chest Hospital venue depriving the denizens with much lung-space and direly
needed health facilities already existing there. And still there is no dearth
of ‘Doo Doo Basavannas’ [ready nod-heads] among a substantial section of populace fired
with the passions of regional chauvinism. It is forgotten that decades ago superstitious renovations
of the present Secretariat Buildings had been initiated by his political guru NTR himself and ever since going on
under various Chief Ministers resulting in wasteful expenditure of crores of
rupees of public moneys every time and now the Sishya [disciple] wants to do one or two up on his guru by totally discarding
the site itself – perhaps with a hidden agenda of turning it over to greedy
real estate dealers fetching the corrupt politicians hundreds of crores of
commissions and kickbacks as is being widely rumored. And precisely those
sections of society donning black coats and white bands who are expected to
protect and promote the rule of law and safeguard people’s interests are seen marching
in the streets defying and shutting down the courts of law in the name of
agitation for a separate High Court for Telangana which, in any way, is to
happen once the common capital facility is exhausted – all this ostensibly for
a few judgeships supposedly denied to their lot. All this despite the existence
of specific provisions for a common High Court in the A.P. Reorganization Act
2014 per Article 231 of the Constitution of India and the continuance of such
common High Court being of real benefit to the masses and classes [including
advocates] of Telangana. §§§
