History and statistics of Telangana and Andhra regions:
•It is yet to be established about the point of origin of the Telugu language. Telugu
is a predominant language in Southern part of India. Speakers of Telugu are
spread from Deccan region to the East coast region of India.
•Hyderabad state had total 16 districts: 8 Telangana + 5 Marat Wada + 3 Kannada
speaking districts.
•Nizam dynasty ruled it from 1724 to 1948.
•Struggle against the king started somewhere in 1943 and it reached new heights
after 17th August 1947 as king refused to join the Indian union as he had an idea
of making it a part of Pakistan.
•Police action started on September 13th and on September 17th of 1948 Hyderabad
state became a part of Indian Union.
•Telangana saw its 1st elected government of Boorgula Ramakrishna Rao in 1952,
the 4 years vacuum in government sector was filled by people of Andhra region.
Then started the MULKI struggle (mulk stands for state in Urdu), GAIR MULKI
GO BACK was the slogan at that time. It was a very simple but effective tactic
by the Govt of India to control the people, officers from Andhra region were
placed to monitor the activities in Telangana, for example police of Telangana
state was formed by constables from Telangana region and officers from Andhra
region.
Andhra Rastra creation and role of Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Garu:
On 19th of October 1952 Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Garu
started indefinite hunger strike for separation of Telugu speaking people from Madras
presidency, with Madras as its capital. He died on 15th December 1952 the 63rd day of
fasting and Delhi cleared the way for Andhra Rastra, and on 1st October 1953 Andhra
Rastra was created with Kurnool as capital. But our great leaders and stupid students of
Andhra Pradesh will praise him as the father of AP on every November 1st.
Then what is November 1st - the day of treachery!
STATE REORGANISATION COMMISSION (SRC) 1953:
There was a demand for language based state in several parts of the country and so
among few Telugu speaking people of south India.
SRC was commissioned by Delhi and was headed by Supreme Court judge Fazal
Ali. He clearly mentioned that 8 Telugu speaking districts of Hyderabad state should
be clubbed into a state called Telangana and if interested in future its assembly must
vote with 2/3rd majority so that Telangana can be a part of a United Telugu state.
He made points both for and against the unification:
AGAINST unification:
1. It is not good to merge two regions which are unequal in development
2. Andhra is in deficit budget and Telangana is in surplus and there is every danger
of the surplus being used by deficit region
3. People of Andhra are well versed with English and telugu education if a state is
unified under telugu banner then Telangana people will be the losers because for
generations telugu was not administrative language (Urdu was the administrative
language here)
4. Telangana is a plateau region where as the Andhra is plain and fertile utilization
of water resources will be unequal under a unified state.
FOR unification:
1. Andhra region will benefit from the infrastructure of Hyderabad and hence the
problem of their capital (read it as capital in tents) will be solved.
2. Both regions can exchange food and mineral resources so that there can be an
all around development. (now anyone can easily verify what amount of
minerals Telangana lost to this unified state but what amount of food it got in
return)
FORMATION OF ANDHRA PRADESH:
In 1956 C.M’s (chief ministers) of Hyderabad and
Andhra Rastra met in Hyderabad, and leaders from both regions participated in it.
ANDHRA leaders: Bejawada Gopal Reddy, Neelam Sanjeev Reddy, Alluri
Satyanarayana Raju, Gautu Lacchnna
TELANGANA leaders: Boorgula Ramakirshna Rao, konda Venkata Reddy, Marri
Chenna Reddy, J.V. Narsimhlu
Both the groups came to an agreement on the formation of state and on 1st November
1956. Thus Andhra Pradesh became 1st state which formed on basis of language.
(Leaders made a mockery of democracy don’t they know how things are run in a
democracy? Did they seek permission of people from both the regions for the
unification? The attitude was similar to Scottish noble men, in English we call it
Horse trading.
The then P.M Jawaharlal Nehru on 5th march 1955 while he was in tour of
Nizamabad district of Telangana state was asked to comment on Andhra
Pradesh state, in reply he made a statement “EK MASOOM BHOLI BHALI
LADKI KO EK NATKAT LADKE KE SAAT SHAADI KIYA JAA RAHA HAI,
CHAHE TOH WOH MILKE REH SAKTE HAI YA BICHAD SAKTE HAI”. We
need to know a bit poetry and politics to understand this, he said an innocent girl
(Telangana) is being wed to a clever boy (Andhra Rasthram) it is of their choice
to continue or to get separated. Here he speaks about a plebiscite ie., a referendum
(people can vote yes or no in it). When will government seek the decision by
direct vote?
The main points of the treaty made during unification:
1. If one region gets post of chief minister then the other region has to get the
post of deputy chief minister and out of ministries of home, finance, revenue,
trade, planning , industries any of the two ministries should be given to
Telangana MLA’s. (as soon as Sanjeev reddy of Andhra region became CM
of AP he abolished the post of Deputy CM)
2. Prohibition of liquor consumption in Andhra region but not in Telangana ( the
excise amount collected in Telangana was used by AP but not Telangana)
3. Cost of administration should be in ratio of 2:1 (Andhra: Telangana) (the
surplus of Telangana which was left by Nizam was used by AP state)
4. Appointment for jobs on ratio of population (now the qualifications were set
high which made the Urdu educated youth as unqualified)
5. If there is a need to remove government job holders then they should be
removed in equal ratio (if the recruitment is not in a equal ratio don’t expect
the removal to be in equal ratio)
6. Residence of 12 years was compulsory to get jobs. (which was brought down
to 4 years by agitation of JAI ANDHRA in 1970’s)
7. Andhra people should not buy lands of Telangana farmers
(implementation of this point need not be explained by me).
8. Cabinet allocation must be in ration of 3:2(Andhra: Telangana) and a Muslim
from Telangana must be in the cabinet.
The only two commonalities in between these two regions is they speak Telugu and they
are all Indians. The story of Rayalaseema was altogether different, after winning
Rayalaseema which was in hands of different rulers Britishers included it in its madras
presidency.
Now let us try to look into things that happened after independence.
•Nizam who remained here had no political significance he feared the charges of
genocide and left to turkey with his family, and what was left in Telangana was a
huge power vacuum.
•Andhra region was lucky enough as they had a first hand experience of how
things will run in post independence India because Indian union adopted the same
British democracy which Andhra people were well acquaintance with.
•Local landlords of Telangana remained intact as they were not talking of union
with Pakistan and Delhi did not feel they were a threat to the union. Moreover as
the landlords had access to modern education they realized the benefit of joining
the congress party. Now the people of Telangana fell into the fire from the pan,
the new enemy was a part of the system and any move against them will be
counted as an outlaw
The whole story in India and even in Telangana starts here, as it is free India now
everyone has equal right on assets. But practically land lords were holding long
stretches of land and were reluctant to give the rights.
Here the ruling party at the centre (I need not name it) found a best way to solve
this problem the same old way of asking and persuading which brought us freedom.
This might work in every other place but will that work in Telangana?
The answer would be NO because we did not beg for freedom, we SNATCHED it
from the oppressor and so will be the case of lands, so began the struggle for the land.
That is why the Naxalbury movement on 1967 turned into an alternate solution for
the problems of land distribution in Telangana, the state which should look after its
people once again stood by the oppressor and crushed the people of Telangana.( please
read about the radical movement against the local land lords from any sources you have)
This movement was raised by Marri Chenna Reddy when kasu Bramhananda
Reddy was the then CM of AP, people agitated fiercely and the new PM Inidra
Gandhi was observing the events (as what Sonia Gandhi is doing now). Nearly
400 people (90% students) of Telangana died.
In 1969 few points were made to ease the tensions:
1. All the employees who got employment against the rules shall be removed
( not implemented till date)
2. Action against those who got in with JAALI certificates ( no action taken
against any such persons)
3. Extension of mulki rules to local administration.
4. Seniority must be respected as per the Supreme Court orders.
5. Funds siphoned from Telangana must be given back ( ?????)
6. Increase the educational facilities in Hyderabad (nothing from government
was established but we can feel the heat of Andhra corporate colleges here
in Telangana now)
Telangana praja samiti party won 10 MP (Member of Parliament) seats
but same old story of noble men, treachery followed victory. All the winners
joined in congress and Chenna Reddy became CM of AP and hence called off
the struggle.
You find statues of potti sriramulu all over AP but all the 400 odd who died in
1969 Separate Telangana agitation did not find place even in Government
records.
Supreme Court of India denied to accept the case filed by people of
Andhra region and solidified the MULKI rules, then started Jai Andhra
movement and result was a death blow to Telangana, the following decisions
were taken to ease the tensions:
1. All the mulki rules were quashed
2. Telangana regional committee was cancelled
3. People started claiming Hyderabad as FREE ZONE (it is written no
where in records about free zone)
4. Period of residence brought down from 12 to 4 years
5. Govt stopped maintaining separate accounts for both the regions
At any point Telangana with its 10 districts is either given a status equal to or less than
Rayalaseema with 4 districts, now if you compare with Andhra the picture will be
horrifying!
For every 1 lakh Andhra people and 70,000 Rayalaseema people there is a government
junior college and in Telangana for every 6 lakhs students there is a government junior
college.
In case of govt degree college in both the regions for every 1,75,000 students there is a
college and 3,75,000 Telangana students have a college.
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