Editorial: "Once Again for Telugu Unity", in LAW ANIMATED WORLD, 30 September 2013 issue, Vol. 9, Part 2, No. 18.

ONCE AGAIN FOR TELUGU UNITY

On the eve of the Andhra State Formation Day and Gandhi Jayanthi, paying our reverent tributes to the glorious freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi, Prakasam Pantulu and Potti Sriramulu, we once again express our firm commitment to the cause of Telugu unity. We recall that Gandhiji was all along a firm votary of linguistic reorganization of provinces and also believed that it would contribute to, not derogate, the unity and integrity of India. Though he had to temporarily compromise on the immediate formation of linguistic states post-independence due to the adamant opposition of Nehru and Patel at that time, Gandhiji had yet again, as if it were one of his last wishes, reiterated his commitment to linguistic provinces on 25 January 1948 saying, “The Congress had decided some twenty years ago that there should be as many provinces in the country as there are major languages. The Congress had also said that as soon as power came into its hands such linguistic provinces would be formed. …… Let all live as brothers. Moreover if linguistic provinces are formed it will also give a fillip to the regional languages. It would be absurd to make Hindustani the medium of instruction in all the regions and it is still more absurd to use English for this purpose.” Unfortunately due to the obstinacy of Nehru the precious life of Potti Sriramulu was lost; but the consequent massive conflagration forced Nehru to retract and declare the formation of the first linguistic state in free India. Later Nehru was equally adamant in his opposition to the just and popular demand of Vishalandhra arising from both Andhra and Telangana regions but once more he was constrained to bow down to popular wishes and declare the formation of Andhra Pradesh. We see no reason to break this cherished state into pieces on the basis of some wild sentiments and also note the massive people’s movement raging in Seemandhra for Telugu unity and the opposition of about 40-45% of people in Telangana even to bifurcation as expressed in some recent TV channel survey and once again urge all Telugus to remember the popular movements for unity of 1946-56 and the later periods of general harmony (1956-68 & 1973-2002) to save and develop this united state, at the same time according maximum autonomy to Telangana by way of a regional council as suggested by the Srikrishna Committee.   §§§

Ye Daulat Bhi Le Lo - Jagjit Singh

Pakeezah - Chalte Chalte Yunhi Koi Mil Gaya Tha - Lata Mangeshkar

My open letter to the AP CM Sri Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy

mallik sharma	10:53 PM (25 minutes ago)
to cmap

To                                                                                                                                               Dated 27-09-2013. cmap@ap.gov.in

Dear Kiran Kumar Reddy garu,

I appreciate your ideal, zeal and efforts to prevent bifurcation of AP and keep the Telugu nation united. However, you should have awoken to your sacred ideals and responsibility long back and tried to nip it in the bud.                                                                                                  [by 'it' I meant the 'mischief' - IMS.]

To those who insist that recent CWC resolution is irrevocable and to be implemented expeditiously please reply that in politics nothing is non-retractable or impossible. Politics itself is the art of the possible. More important, please point out to them that the 2001 CWC resolution - which was also unanimous and which also considered the separate Telangana issue - for the institution of 2nd SRC is as yet in abeyance [or is it retracted?] and has not been implemented so far.

I also remind you of the great words of Sri Winston Churchill - "I have not become the Prime Minister of Britain to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Of course as Indian nationalists we decried those words since it was directed against our Indian independence but you will agree with me that they are quite proper and suitable from the mouth of the British Premier who has to and had to consider their own interests. Likewise you have not become the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh to preside over its liquidation.

If worst comes to worst, please resign and recommend to the Governor the dissolution of the Assembly and calling for general elections at the earliest and that will put a full stop to all process of any state formation till the next general elections. Well, let us see what happens afterwards. 

I am making this an open letter.

Thank you. 

Yours sincerely,

I. MALLIKARJUNA SHARMA, Advocate
and Editor, LAW ANIMATED WORLD (http://lawanimatedworld.blogspot.com/)
and Convener, TELUGU JATI AIKYATA VEDIKA (http://telugujativedika.blogspot.com/)

6-3-1243/156, M.S. Makta, opposite Raj Bhavan,
HYDERABAD - 500082, INDIA. Ph: 040 - 23300284.

Photo copy of my latest editorial: "FIGHT ELECTORAL CORRUPTION: STAY UNITED!" in Law Animated World, 15 September 2013 issue.

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.  §§§

O Duniya ke rakhwale... Baiju Bawra... another favorite, perhaps the best song in the film