Divide and Rule? or United we Stand and Divided we Fall?

One freaking comment by some radical political journalist (that’s what he claims to be) made me write on issue which I love to hate. Separate Telangana state. Firstly, I ain’t no big political writer but I am a proud citizen of Andhra Pradesh so I can talk about it I guess :-).

Here is one small fact to being with. So far 5 times the state had Chief Ministers from Telangana region. What did they do for Telangana? Or rather why did they not do anything to uplift Telangana? Who stopped them from doing anything for their region? What special upliftment for Telangana will our beloved leader KCR bring about after getting a separate state of Telangana? He will shower all the wealth on Telangana? He will convert all the rocks in Telangana region to fertile land? I am not capable of deciding whether we should have a separate state or not.

All I want to tell is this is just a politicized issue. It is a secondary issue which can be dealt with after dealing with the primary issues India is facing.

Why no one agitates so much for basic needs of water, electricity and food for all. Why are all the farmer suicides not given as much importance as this issue? Any one and everyone is just reading up a bit and claiming that they have understanding of constitution and a separate state is required/not. Why can’t such people see the real problems and fight for them? They have the talent to read up and fight then please read up and fight for the real issues which once resolved will do good for India and its citizens.

Every big city is a cosmopolitan today with people from all over world living there. World is unifying and some people want to go back to history. Why open a Pandora’s Box (already opened) which will lead to unrest in the country. So many people have started agitations for separate states. Some people are even asking for a separate country status for Tamilnadu. Do we have fewer problems in India that we go to such issues? Why can’t we resolve the important issues first (for some people separate state is more important that food, electricity, water, education, poverty etc).

One more important thing is the way this issue is being dealt with. How has damaging public property done any good to any state? Can such people run a separate state? The state is losing hundreds of crores of money because of the frequent bandhs. Do they even realize that the daily wage workers or other poor people are the ones who lose the most in this? Why should the common man pay for the damages done for political interests? How can burning a bus, damaging petrol bunk, looting a shop get sympathy or even inclination from government to give them what they want? Tomorrow everyone will do that to get what they want. I can burn my cubicle to get a salary hike or promotion? The so called students (read political goons) don’t even deserve tiniest of sympathy for the damage they are doing.

Height is that they compare themselves to freedom fighters. How many buses did Gandhiji torch? How many shops did Subhash Chandra Bose or Sardar Patel vandalize to get freedom for India? How many famous Bandhs do you remember from Indian freedom struggle? None. How can they even compare themselves to great people who gave life for the freedom of country?

Each and every place has problems. There is no perfect state or country. The scale or magnitude could be different but this does not mean people should protest and destroy their own state. Is that what you call maturity? It is disgusting to see people committing suicide for issue like this. Why don’t people commit suicide when security of country is not taken care of? Why don’t they retaliate when a Kasab takes the country for a ride and changes his statements like dialogues from movies? China and Pakistan insult India when ever they feel like and people take it lying down but they are ever ready to fight among themselves. Why don’t people take to streets to hang Kasab who killed so many Indians? Don’t have the courage? Or will you wait for a separate state to fight for your country. Really, India doesn’t need any enemy. We ourselves are enough to fight each other and destroy the nation.

So called educated people are supporting such useless ways to fight secondary issues which will not affect the common man much. But yes, destroying public property and organizing bandhs of course will kill the state.

Can we grow up and fight food problems, climate change, terrorism and other major issues first and then think about dividing the nation or not.

I have only one message for all the people who are destroying my university (it really pains), city and state in the name of united Andhra or separate Telangana – you are all mentally sick. Get well soon mamu :-)